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Before Holly knew it, they were pulling up in front of the Archer family house. She forgot about how close everything in town was. Unlike Miami, it didn't take an hour to go a couple of miles.
"How about you?" Jake asked as Holly opened her door and stepped outside. She bent down to be eye level and looked at him with a furrowed brow, confused with his question, and he clarified. "How long have you been divorced now?"
Her heart stopped beating. Wide-eyed, she stared at him. She hadn't told anyone, so how could he have possibly known? Besides, she had just told him things were going great, hadn't she? "I don't know what you mean. We're both happily married," she forced out, plastering a fake smile onto her face.
But Jake just chuckled. He looked at her, the two of them locking gazes. It really was like he could see right through her. Even after all these years, he still knew how to read her. "If that's the lie you're going with, you might wanna start wearing your wedding ring."
Holly stammered out a response as she quickly closed the door. Jake looked at her one last time and then slowly headed back down the driveway. Her cheeks were flushed with heat from the embarrassment of having been caught in her lie.
Jake probably thought she was pathetic, lying about her life still being perfect. But as she stood there under the moonlight, she could still see the look he had given her. Whatever he'd been thinking, that hadn't been it. But no matter how long Holly pondered, she couldn't quite decipher what he had actually been thinking.
She couldn't quite read him as well as he could read her.
