Blinky's POV
I kept my expression unreadable as Mr. Dominic towered over me, his eyes sharp enough to cut straight through every lie I had ever told.
“No, sir. I have no idea who you’re speaking about,” I said calmly.
A clean lie.
A necessary lie.
Because even though Cierra and I had drifted apart, maybe even fallen apart...there was no universe in which I would expose her. Not after everything she’d gotten tangled in… especially with him.
He was her stepdad now, at least publicly, and for reasons I did not understand, he wanted her desperately. Too desperately. And it terrified me.
His gaze lingered, searching my face like he expected the truth to crawl out of my pores.
“So you’re saying there’s no dancer by the name MB here?”
I exhaled quietly behind my mask. If he saw my real
