Chapter 81

• “Maybe you should ask Charlotte about Charlotte and stop jumping to ridiculous assumptions. Have you really driven all the way from Manchester to London, just to see me?”
• Satisfaction flashes across his face, and that’s when I know he’s just fallen for my fake ignorance of his family. If I knew her well—which he doesn’t need to know I do… not yet—I would know Manchester isn’t where they live, or where he has just travelled thousands of miles from.
• “I was in town doing business,” he lies.