Chapter 52

Addie

March (The Present)

“Are you gonna answer me?” Mom asks as she gives me a pointed look. “Your dad wants to know why you’re talking to Wilder outside of club situations.”

I struggle with a lie, and figure it won’t work anyway. She can spot one of those a mile away thanks to Caelin, she’s become the human fucking lie detector. Things would have been so much easier on me if I were an only child. “I know him, okay?”

“Outside of when he was at the dinner the other night and when you said you’d help take care of him the past few days?” I swear she could be a member of the FBI the way she questions people and gets answers. I squirm under that gaze.

“Yeah, I met him around town, and he was at Skunk’s when I went to pick up the rent.”

There, I had a reason to meet him before, thank you very much! A little white lie never hurt anyone.