Nothing squalid. Nothing sinister. She didn't even speak of Lila to anyone. She didn't even speak of him to anyone. He began to feel like an even bigger jerk than he already was. So by day three, he tuned her out entirely, when that huge burden of guilt he'd been denying finally came through to suffocate him.
She must be telling him the truth. Unless, of course, she'd actually expected him to do something like that.
"I don't know," Caleb said a day later when he and Cody went over everything Lotus had learned on his stakeout. Where he'd been—and who he'd been with—had put some spring in his step. "Most folks don't carry around suspicious minds like ours."
Yes, he had a hard time remembering that at times. "You're right, I suppose. I only knew her for a couple hours, but she never seemed
