Chapter OneAll night I’ve been a nervous wreck. Is Liam OK? Surely it was all a misunderstanding, right?
My calls to his number were met with a switched off message. By five am, I am too exhausted to stay awake and too frazzled to get to sleep. Maggie will have just reached home after her shift, so I call her instead.
“Hey, Tess, what’s going on?” Maggie sounds alert concerned, obviously, why would I call her at this ungodly hour unless something was wrong?
“I don’t know! I’m freaking out.”
“Calm down; tell me everything,” Maggie says.
I take a deep breath, then tell her everything that happened yesterday from start to finish. Ordinarily I would have embellished details or omitted things that may reflect badly on Liam, but by now, I don’t have the mental capacity or patience for any o
