She tugged at her hand. “You’ll must ask her.”

“Lily,” he spoke softly, “you’ve at all times talked to me about all the things. And I’ve talked to you. We’ve at all times been good associates.”

Which was precisely why she couldn’t discuss to him about this. However she sat again down as a result of he wasn’t giving her a lot selection. She questioned if he even knew he was nonetheless holding her hand.

He needed a solution from her, so she formulated one.

“Hannah didn’t need me to surrender drugs. She loves it a lot. She actually resides her greatest life and she will be able to’t perceive why others wouldn’t really feel the identical manner.”

“So why was she ranting about Amelie?” He saved his gaze mounted on her face. “She mentioned she couldn’t consider I’d been silly sufficient to be taken in by her. Apparently she knew issues about her, however once I requested her about it she wouldn’t inform me what they have been. I already knew I’d made a mistake in fact and perhaps I might have talked to Hannah about it, however she wouldn’t take heed to something I needed to say. The irony was, Amelie and I weren’t even critical. It was simply informal, for me at the least. Though it’s apparent to me now that she felt otherwise.” He let go of her hand. “You knew Amelie, didn’t you?”

Lily’s lips felt stiff. “Sure.”

“Are you going to inform me why Hannah disliked her a lot?”

“I—you’d must ask Hannah.”

“I’m asking you.”

“Todd—”

“Okay, so I’m going to take a guess at it.” He studied her for a second. “The lady who bullied you at college—that was Amelie wasn’t it?” When she didn’t reply, he nodded. “It took me some time to determine it out. Too lengthy. Rattling, Lily—”

“I don’t know why you’d—”

“As a result of I put collectively all of the issues Hannah threw at me and added in Amelie’s response when your identify got here up.”

Her coronary heart began to race. “My identify got here up?”

“Sure. Earlier than we have been relationship. She wasn’t actually a part of my social circle, however sometimes we’d discover ourselves in the identical place on the similar time. We have been speaking about associates. You’re certainly one of my associates. However once I talked about your identify, Amelie modified. She grew to become upset—moody.”

“I don’t see why us being associates would upset her.”

It was a second earlier than Todd answered. “I feel,” he mentioned slowly, “it was as a result of she was jealous. The truth is, I’m questioning now if that’s why she obtained concerned with me within the first place.”

“That doesn’t make any sense.”

“It does. And I feel you understand it does.” He leaned ahead and took her hand once more. “She knew you have been in love with me, didn’t she, Lily?”

The world stopped.

“Todd—”

“You have been in love with me, and Amelie knew that. That was why she was immediately taken with me.”

This was a nightmare. She didn’t know which was worse. Todd realizing, or Amelie realizing.

Todd. Positively Todd. It was one factor loving him, and him not realizing. A totally totally different factor, loving him and realizing he knew. It was mortifying. She didn’t need him feeling sorry for her. Pitying her. Every part could be awkward now. These previous few days, the place they’d labored collectively so intently and had such enjoyable, have been prior to now.

She stood up immediately and Todd stood up, too.

She freed her hand and turned to stroll away however he caught her by the shoulders and turned her to face him.

“Wait. I’ve a query, and it’s actually essential to me that you just reply it truthfully.” He was nonetheless holding her. “Are you continue to in love with me, Lily?”

Oh God, he was going to sympathize. He was going to be type and understanding. This was her nightmare. The second she’d at all times dreaded, and it was as dangerous as she’d feared it might be.

It was terrifying to be this weak.

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