“We’ve had a long day, and it’s starting to take it’s toll on me. I thought that it was finally an acceptable time for me to go to sleep.”
I had to admit that I was surprised with the fluency with which the lie slipped out of my mouth, as I was not someone who was used to lying—not telling the whole truth was one thing, but lying was another. Deciding not to question it any longer, I sent a silent prayer of thanks to the Goddess before I returned all of my focus to Matthew, who was still staring at me with that intense expression on his face—the one that I was scared of.
There was a part of me that was hoping against hope that he would accept my lie to be the truth, for I didn’t want to go to any farther, more extreme lengths in order to put a stop to whatever was transpiring between th
