Troy's absurd story was perhaps the dumbest thing Eden had ever heard in her life. She was inclined to not believe a single word of it but a little voice in her head started making a few good points.
Needing to hide his identity would explain why he never took his mascot head off in the breakroom. It would also explain why he didn't want to meet up with her despite genuinely seeming to enjoy talking to her on the phone.
And his reluctance to get involved with her physically the night of the masquerade. If he really wasn't who she thought he was and he knew that things could never go anywhere if he was going to keep his cousin's secret…
