As I look up, I freeze, then quickly grab my keys with a shaking hand and back away as I get up. “What are you doing here?” I ask, trying not to sound too suspicious. My mentor gets up as well, watching me with a curious gaze in his eyes.
“I could be asking you the same thing a few minutes ago,” he remarks, and I realize he knows I was upstairs. How the hell? It’s not like I announced myself! I decide to play stupid and raise my eyebrows at him in surprise.
“You’d ask me what I was doing with my boyfriend?” I blurt out before I’m able to stop myself. And oh, boy, it comes out sounding wrong. Cyrus hesitates for a moment, then decides to ignore what I was just implying.
I can feel my cheeks heating up. f**k. Did I really just say that to my mentor? “We both know you weren’t with your boy
