Page 18 of In Love with My Secret Husband

Most of them were nice about it. They teased Laina about keeping her marriage a secret. But there was one person, though...

It was just so weird, how Oscar Baldwin suddenly seemed unable to meet her gaze. He couldn’t even seem to bear being in thesame room as her. He used to be so kind to her, even insisting on driving her home when she had impulsively insisted that Marlon take the afternoon off.

And yet now...

She was at the parking lot when she noticed something strange. Marlon typically used the SUV to pick her up. But instead, a different car was waiting for her. Wasn’t that the sportscar Troy liked to use when he was in the mood to drive?

And when the driver’s door opened—

Troy!

That was also the same moment Oscar had just come out of school, and when she saw how the other man paled upon seeing Troy—

What was that about?

“I’ve come to pick you up,” Troy said as she reached him. “Marlon had a personal emergency to take care of at home. Nothing serious, though.”

“I’m sorry,” she apologized awkwardly. “I didn’t mean to take your time—”

“I’m already retired,” he reminded her gently.

Right.

He opened the passenger door for her, and she took her seat next to him in front.

“How was school?”

“It was...” She was about to lie and say everything was okay when she remembered the look on Oscar’s face, and that was when she heard herself ask, “It was weird.”

“In what way?”

“Did you see the other teacher earlier?”

Laina was about to describe Oscar’s physical appearance—

“Are you talking about Baldwin?”

—but found herself gaping instead.

“Y-Yes. But how d-did you know—”

“What about him?”

“It’s just...I saw...I thought I saw...”

“You thought you saw what?”

Troy wasn’t raising his voice at all. If anything, his voice had actually gotten silkier, but that somehow made things worse, and she completely lost her nerve to ask him anything.

“Nothing.”

Troy let it slide even though he knew it wasn’t nothing at all.

Or at least he told himself heshouldlet it slide.

But when they were back home, and he saw her jump out of the car as if she couldn’t get away from him fast enough...

No, dammit.