Chapter 4

He took my hand and guided it across his body, as if to prove he really had been missing and nearly lost his life.

I just watched him act with cold indifference.

I didn't laugh out loud until he finally looked embarrassed.

"Have you finished acting?" I asked.

"Is the person who kindly took you to the hospital named Evelyn?"

Johnny's expression stiffened inch by inch.

He moved his lips and forced a helpless smile. "Janessa, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"

I looked at his feigned confusion, and after three months of grievance and anger, I…