CHAPTER 14 - REED
TALKING TO HERSELF? That wasn’t just a few words. That was a whole damn conversation. I’d been watching Kim for the last five minutes, and her mouth hadn’t stopped moving. Nor was it a habit, because I’d never seen her do it before. Whenever she got nervous, she picked up a pile of paper clips and began twisting.
At first, I’d thought she was on the phone, but when her mobile chirped in the purse in my hand, I realised she couldn’t be. So what the hell had she been doing in the car?
Should I press her? A gentleman would have backed off and let her calm down, the way she was shaking, but I had a feeling if I did that, she’d never tell me the truth. And no mistake—she was lying to me about something. I’d seen all the signs before. Cagey. Hesitant. Unable to make eye cont
