I shrugged. “I didn’t want whatever we had going on to be tainted by what I was doing for Wendy.”
She shook her head. “You’re crazy.”
I’d been burned by my ex.
It was hard to trust people and their feelings when you were caught up in your own.
Not to mention, I still had one more huge secret that I’d need to share with her before this got any further.
But it was a double-edged sword. On one hand, I needed to share it with her, to let her know that she wanted a murderer. The sooner I told her, the better it would be for all involved.
However, if I told her, she might leave.
She might not want anything to do with me.
However, this was a huge freakin’ secret. One that meant life and death for me.
What if I couldn’t trust her?
What if I…
“Are you even listening to me?”
Her cold hands smushed together my cheeks, causing my lips to pucker.
“Kind of,” I admitted.
“Are you freaking out?”
I nodded.
Though not for the reason she thought.
“I won’t tell anyone your secrets,” she whispered. “Everything you care to share with me will stay in this steel vault right here.”
She let one of my hands go and knocked on her skull.
I snorted. “You’re a weirdo.”
“I know,” she said. “You’re stuck with this weirdo, unfortunately.”
“Okay.” The doctor came back. “Dr. Pendelton confirmed. I’ll just need to see some ID to confirm you’re you.”
I showed him my ID, albeit fake.
He glanced at it, nodded his head in confirmation, then said, “You can go to this room right here, and we’ll get you set up.”
I squeezed Constance’s hip before letting her go.
“Go,” I urged. “I’ll be back.”
She went into the room with her daughter, and I went into the room right next to it where a nurse who had no freakin’ idea what she was doing took my blood.
Or tried to.
She was on the third poke in when Sage walked in looking bored. “Marin, how’s it going in here?”
I tried not to wince when Marin was startled and completely missed my vein.
