Sebastian's POV
“Truth or dare?” she asked, a small smile forming on her lips again, like she was trying to bring things back to what they were before.
I didn’t answer immediately.
Not because I didn’t hear her, but because the weight of everything that had just happened was still sitting in the space between us. The lie detector moment refused to leave my mind, the red beep still echoing in a strange loop I couldn’t silence. Margaret was sitting across from me again, acting like she had already locked that moment away, but I could see it in the way her fingers rested on her lap that she hadn’t.
Neither of us was really calm.
The room felt quieter now, but not in a peaceful way. More like the silence after an argument that hasn’t fully ended. She adjusted her position slightly on the
