“What’s going on?” Aston asked, his words laced with suspicion.
I swallowed hard and shook my head while forcing a smile on my face. “No one. Nothing’s going on, Master. Just my friend asking me if I reached safely.”
Aston looked at me as if he was trying to find the lie in my words and when he nodded and went to the bathroom to shower I heaved a sigh of relief. Man, that was close. I didn’t want Aston to know I had a date for tomorrow.
And what about Marco? What will you tell him?
I didn’t know. I said yes without thinking because I was in a hurry to get back. And now I had to figure out a way to let him down easy or make up some excuse to Aston so he’d let me go. Letting Marco down seemed like the easier option, now I just had to come up with a really good excuse, and I would do
