Never Lie

by Freida McFadden

That night, I broke up with my boyfriend of over a year, explaining apologetically that I had met the man I was going to marry.

yikes…

“Okay, hop on my back.”

AWWWW

At least in the house, we’ll be safe.

SUREEE

Paige lives in Manhattan, probably in a tiny shoebox of an apartment that costs a small fortune.

THATS SUSPICIOUS. THATS WEIRD.

She drove all the way up here from Manhattan after all.

interesting considering the present day couple is from there too

I don’t want to come here one day and find you murdered in the living room.”

At any moment during a session, my patients could stand up, grab the letter opener off my desk, and jam it through my eye socket.

thats highly specific

But that will resolve itself soon enough.

mmmm SURE

Paige won’t deal with it well. I can already see it unfold.

thats sus thats weirddddd

even when they tell me no, I still record them.

thats illegal hun

I have many, many years left in my career.

The moment I first met this man, I immediately disliked him.

so real for that

I will never have to see him again.

I won’t be here long enough to finish it, so there’s no point starting something new.

thats what you think bud

“It’s a bottle of Rustenberg cabernet sauvignon. It’s from South Africa, so it’s got eucalyptus notes.”

jaw = dropped

Something creepy and also familiar.

I wonder where Ethan even found the bottle.

bro ej is literally ethan

He winks at me.

me realizing luke is her bf

having never been here before.

SUREE

I am seized with the almost irrepressible urge to take them out and plunge them into his chest.

yikes

“I was having a bad day.”

GIRL T_T

“Hasn’t that ever happened to you? You had a bad day and did something stupid?” “I never slashed anyone’s tires.”

I am seized with the sudden urge to scratch his eyes out until there’s nothing left but two hollow sockets.

I flinch in my seat. I’ve been dating Luke for four months, and I’ve never heard him raise his voice like that before.

Okay, I was more than a little obsessed with Ethan. Let’s just say that our coincidental meeting wasn’t such a coincidence. More like it was carefully engineered by yours truly.

*mastermind by taylor swift plays in the background*