I Hired My Neighbor to Be My Girlfriend, Then Fell in Love
*Door's open.
He arrived less than a minute later, close enough that she suspected he'd been standing near his own door already, phone in hand, waiting for her answer. He looked pale in a way she hadn't seen since that very first night, and something about his expression made her stomach drop before he'd said a word.
"Priya called me," he said, without preamble. "Not texted. Called. Right after we got back."
"She texted me too," Everly said, holding up her phone. "She knows, Nathaniel. She says she saw us from the upstairs window Saturday night, in the car, before we drove off."