He looks up at me, sitting up as he knows we are about to go back to the topic of what is about to happen and all. "What do you recommend that I do tomorrow?"
"What I would do includes a lie, and believe me, when you lie to Leo, it's not good."
"What would you do?" I ask, wondering what I would tell him.
"Say you rejected Steven first. That you wanted nothing to do with him, make up a story, maybe that he did something bad and you wanted nothing more to do with him."
"He takes pride in rejecting me first," I mumble. "Besides, I'm like an open book, Leo could tell that Steven rejected me first."
"How do you know that?"
"Because he's been looking for the 'man who rejected me and made my life a living hell.' I think that title alone shows he won't be fooled."
"Worth a shot," Elijah com
