Chapter 73

CLAIRE

"Your skin is glowing", Riley commented, I hid behind the comment by trying to seem busy with the ingredients laid in front of me.

"Must be the new serum you got from the market the other day", Vienna Smith added taking another balloon in her hand.

I preferred to remain silent for lack of a better lie to come up with.

I couldn't just tell them that he you guys know what? I've been sleeping with Zade Cutler since last week and I've been fucking enjoy it.

We've fucked in my own shop at the old observatory that's near completion, in his car and ooh did I mention he has a cabin just for us?

If the that didn't shock them, then definitely telling them that I had been reckless enough with Zade not to use protection definitely would.

Plus I wanted Zade and I to be a secret. If anyone got news of our relationship then people would talk and even if I wasn't majorly dependent on what people said for me to exist, I still didn't want the town to pressure me into something I didn't want.

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