Aria
Tessa had lied.
Sur-f*****g-prise. Not.
She hadn’t just deceived her father and taken his money to hand over to Ethan. She’d lied straight to my face too. She’d looked me in the eyes and pretended Daniel had been part of it, that he’d approved, that he’d stood behind her betrayal. That they both made a bet when he never accepted.
I think she believed that dragging her father’s name into it would scare me. That if she claimed he’d given her the go-ahead, if she said he’d even supplied the funds, I would fold, bow my head, and accept it.
What she didn’t account for was the fact that I was in a relationship with her father.
Daniel had no reason to lie to me. If he’d been involved, he would have said so. He would have owned it and I would have had no choice but to accept it, even if
