Maybe Ace did really like me. Maybe he meant all the things he’d said in those notes. Maybe he gave me those gifts out of admiration and not pity. Even if that were true, which was still very hard for me to wrap my head around, he’d kept secrets and lied to me every time we talked about my secret admirer. I didn’t know how to feel about that, and until I did, I wasn’t ready to talk to him.
