Chapter 26
NORA
"You don't need to know that," he said, not unkindly, but firm all the same. "The less either of us knows about the other's most exposed pieces right now, the better, in case one of us ends up questioned before this is over."
I understood the logic even as it stung a little, another wall going up between us at the exact moment I most wanted to lean on someone who actually understood what I was carrying. "Fine," I said. "But I need something from you. If Daniel already suspects something's different about me, I need to know how to answer him tonight when he asks his next careful little question, because he will ask one, and I can't keep dodging forever without it looking like exactly what it is."
Adrian was quiet for a moment, thinking, his eyes narrowed slightly against
