He was standing directly in front of me now, his hands opening and closing at his sides.
“Please,” I said. “My brain is going to worse places than the truth.”
He looked away.
I could see how much whatever he was carrying was tearing him apart.
“Is it money?” I asked.
He frowned.
“Because I already know we don’t have any,” I continued. “That isn’t exactly a secret.”
“It isn’t exactly that.”
My heart started beating faster.
“Is there someone else?”
Leo’s head snapped up.
“God, no! Aurora. No.”
He sat down beside me and finally met my eyes.
“I’ve been keeping something from you for almost a year,” he said.
My hands went cold.
“A year?”
“Almost.”
“Leo.”
“I was scared that if I told you, you’d think I was doing it for the wrong reasons. Or you’d stop me.”
