"I want you to be honest," Alec said, the way he held her stare intensely told Lauren he wasn't convinced that she was being entirely truthful. "If there is anything else you are hiding from me, I want you to tell me…" His voice was calm and patient, his solemn eyes trying to force the truth out of her mouth.
Her heart never calmed. A storm was raging inside her, and she was having a hard time surviving the hurricane of emotion she was trying to pacify. She wanted to feign ignorance, to act nonchalant like she always does in the face of people trying to disprove her, but the thing was—it was a hundred times harder when it came to Alec. Perhaps it was because she never wanted to lie to him in the first place.
