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012: Obsessive Inventory

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EDEN

Hayden's face goes blank the second he sees the screen. He glances up at me, very slowly.

"Alex?" The corner of his mouth twitches. "As in your ex-boyfriend who's gay?"

My jaw drops instantly.

I never told him that.

Not once. Not in any fight, not in any drunken confession, not even in the journal, because why would I bother writing about an ex as pathetic as Alex?

But Hayden knows. Down to the detail.

My heart slams against my ribs. Has he been watching me? Digging? How long has he
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