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CHAPTER ONE

SHANE

"No more lies," I repeat,her against h it’s her web of lies that is now her prison, and my personal hell "I know you aren’t who you say you are"

Panic flashes in her beautiful blue eyes that I’d once thought theto innocence, while her pal to pushabout?" she de how much trouble she’s in, yet her voice is steady, her demeanor remarkably cool The kind of cool that takes practice and skill The kind of cool soames, Eated, and nothing about who you are quite ht Because why in the world wouldn’t you investigate the woman in your bed?"

"Since the person you say you are doesn’t exist, clearly for good reason"

"My secrets are mine Mine to know Mine to share When I’ to be ready?"

Her fingers curl where they rest on my starched white shirt "I never meant to lie to you," she says, another lie, and her voice is no longer steady, a tremble and a quake in its depths

"But you did lie toover her face, a veil that will be no better a shield to protect her than o to dinner with you, let alone end up this close to you" She hesitates "I thought we’d be the suht … The rest just happened"

"Ah yes Dinner The night the lies began"

"No," she says tightly "My secrets didn’t begin with you and they don’t end with you And I darn sure wasn’t going to spill theer"

"You were," she reer when I told you who I a time and we both know it I want the truth"

"I can’t," she says, her gaze falling to the buttons of my white collared shirt, the absence of my tie and jacket proof of how relaxed I’d been only fifteen aze to uttural, as eo," she says, giving me a full-body push "Move, Shane"

I don’t even sway "I’ the material of her navy blouse at her waist "Who are you?"