Fluent in Betrayal
At the upscale restaurant, my boyfriend, William Falco, and my best friend, Ella Bellini, chatted animatedly in Saturnian.
I kept my head down and silently cut into my steak.
Then William said to Ella, "Keep talking. Sofia's too much of an idiot to understand a word anyway. Just pretend she doesn't exist."
I frowned and looked up. William immediately switched to our native language and asked gently, "What's wrong, baby? Is the steak not good?"
I stared at him, and something suddenly clicked. Whenever the three of us were together, William and Ella always spoke Saturnian to each other.
They had grown up on the same block, and both of their fathers were in the Gothamere mafia. The two of