Chapter Nineteen
For the next week, Tommy walked around with a pit in his stomach. Although he knew Maggie’s idea was brilliant—a surprise birthday party would be amazing—keeping a secret from Deirdre and lying to her made him feel like crap. And she was starting to get suspicious. When he’d lied and said he had hockey practice one night but didn’t need her to come, he’d thought for sure she’d call him on it.
But she didn’t. She looked at him with concern but didn’t question him. His gut burned, but he convinced himself that it would be worth it. He only needed to make it through the week.
And he still had to figure out how to hide his other surprise from her ’til then. He walked into Kai’s office and sat on the chair in front of Kai’s desk.
“Did you need something?”
“Yeah. I want you
