The moment Natalie's voice drifted across the room, Issac lifted his head a fraction, his eyes meeting hers with that calm, unreadable quiet that always seemed to live behind them. "What was it you wanted to tell me?"
Natalie's lips parted. The words she had rehearsed all morning, the soft confession she had been turning over in her mind for what felt like a lifetime, hovered just behind her teeth. Her heart was beating so loudly she could almost hear it in her ears.
"It's just..." she began, her voice barely above a whisper, "the truth is..."
She never got to finish.
The door swung open with a bright clatter, and Ruby Lloyd swept in like a gust of perfumed wind, her heels clicking smartly against the polished floor. The instant she noticed Natalie standing there, she straightened, pla
