After dropping Mia off and being forced to endure that scene at the school gate, I thought the worst part of my day was over.
I was wrong.
Back at Tina’s house, I hadn’t even managed to press down the suffocating weight in my chest before William yanked me into the backyard.
I shook his hand off and stepped back:
“Don’t touch me.”
William lifted his lids and stared at me, his eyes dark enough to be frightening.
“That Mia,” he asked slowly, as if forcing each word into my bones, “why is she staying at your place?”
Everything was exactly as Adrian predicted. William checked, but all he found was the address. He couldn’t dig up the root.
He had no proof, so he came to force me to speak.
“Her mother knew me,” I said lightly, pushing the reason toward Adrian’s side. “And Adrian is bus
