Olivia
“Now you know the truth, Olivia.”
Nathan threw the list of names down on the table in front of me—the exact same list that he had told me about during his story. With shaking hands, I slowly reached down and picked it up. And, just as he had described, there they were.
So he wasn’t lying.
“All this time,” I whispered, slowly lifting my gaze from the paper to meet his. “All this time, you…”
“I always told you I’d never cheat, didn’t I?” he asked in a hush tone so as not to be overheard. “And I didn’t.”
I swallowed, still shakily holding the paper. I felt like I was in some sort of dream, or perhaps a nightmare that had wound up turning out okay in the end. All this time, instead of cheating on me like I had suspected, Nathan had instead been doing dangerous, h
