"Huh?"
I looked at Linda, confused. Her question kind of collided with my thought and set me off balance. I felt lost for a moment.
Linda shook her head and waved her hand. "Don't worry," her lips curved into a sad smile, "you don't have to clarify anything to me if you find it too personal to talk about it."
For a moment, I forgot I was assumed to be married to Mr Lawson. I didn't even expect her to believe the baked lie and it baffled me more that Mr Lawson was acting along with the pretense.
What the hell was he up to?
I wetted my lips and said, "Em… We actually aren't married," I confessed to her.
I wasn't good at pretending so she would have seen through my act if I played along to Mr Lawson's ridiculous game.
She dropped her fingers from her ring and gaped at me. "You aren'
