When His Lie Became My Truth
I thought, just for a moment, that maybe he’d feel a flicker of guilt.
When he came back to his senses, he merely brushed my reaction off.
“Have you been pretending so long you’ve convinced yourself you’re dying of cancer?” he asked, looking completely unfazed by my outburst.
“Drop the act. You can’t fool me, Lorien. You’re disgusting!”
At that moment, my heart went cold.
Then Jessica came closer and leaned in with a cruel smirk.
“Now that the medicine’s gone, you might as well wait for death,” she whispered.