him the moment I saw the word on his back.
Maybe it would have saved me a week of pretending.
But staying silent gave me time.
Time to uncover the whole truth.
Time to protect our money.
Time to meet the woman he had tried to turn into my enemy.
Tessa and I did not become best friends. Real life rarely wraps betrayal in such a neat ending.
Still, we stayed in touch.
A few weeks after Grant moved out, she invited me to the bookstore where she worked. We
