Ainsley’s heart was hammering a little too fast as she pressed her phone to her ear.
Seb answered almost immediately.
“…Hey.”
His voice was even, but she thought she could hear how carefully he was controlling it.
She leaned her head against the door behind her, knees pulled to her chest. “Hey,” she answered quietly.
Neither of them said anything for a moment. Seb just waited anxiously for what the question he knew was coming.
Finally, Ainsley spoke. “I just want to know… why.”
Seb exhaled. “I didn’t mean anything bad by keeping it from you,” he said. “I just... didn’t know how to bring it up.”
Ainsley twisted the fabric of her sleeve between her fingers. “But I thought we’d talked about this already. I thought we both agreed this was a good thing.” As she said that, she secretly f
