Allie
The photographs appeared online before eight in the morning.
They were grainy.
Dark.
Taken from somewhere inside Chase’s house, though the angle did not show enough to identify the exact location.
In the first image, I was stepping into the upstairs hallway wearing one of Chase’s shirts. My hair was untidy, and my face was turned partly away from the camera.
The second showed me near his bedroom door.
The third showed Chase behind me.
Nothing explicit.
Nothing that proved what the source claimed.
But the suggestion was enough.
By the time I finished looking at them, three gossip accounts had already posted the same headline.
ALLIE HARPER CAUGHT LEAVING CHASE RYDER’S BEDROOM AFTER SECRET NIGHT TOGETHER
My stomach dropped.
I sat on the edge of the guest-room bed with my p
