SHE PRETENDED TO BE A BAD GIRL TO ESCAPE A BLIND DATE — BUT THE MAFIA BOSS SAW THROUGH HER IN MINUTES

of a sentence.”

“It’s an honest one.”

Lenora opened the car door before her body remembered how to stay still.

Rain hit her bare shoulders, cold and immediate.

She turned back down toward the open door.

“Was the whole thing fake, then?”

“No.”

“Then what part was real?”

Silven looked up at her from the dark interior of the car, city light moving across the continue reading …