#Chapter 33 Everything is Not What It Seems

 

“What are you talking about? I haven’t been on a date with Bob!”

Barnett pulled out his phone and, after a few angry swipes, shoved it in my face.

“Then what’s this?”

My jaw dropped at the headline running across the top of the webpage:

 

FITNESS VLOGGER AND CELEBRITY STYLIST ANNA LEONARD CAUGHT ON DATE WITH EX-HUSBAND

 

Below the headline was a picture of Bob kissing me at the café where we had lunch the day before. What the picture didn’t show was how I tried to reach for my pepper spray or pummeled him with my purse for touching me.

Now, the entire incident made sense. The kissing, the hand-holding, Bob meeting up with the reporter afterwards. He had set me up.

I pushed the phone back at Barnett.

“All of that…all of that is taken out of context,” I said as I struggled to choke back tears.

Barnett must have noticed because some of his anger seemed to cool.

“Then what is the truth?” he asked.

“He told me that Outer U wanted