Never Lie

by Freida McFadden

Liars fidget. The tone of their voice or speech patterns changes. Liars offer too much information, babbling on with excessive detail to convince themselves or others of what they are saying.

It’s so amazing sharing my life with him. Except for the one big secret he doesn’t know about yet.

“Adrienne Hale,” he reads off the back cover. “Isn’t she that shrink who got murdered?”

I just hope he feels the same way about me after he finds out about my revelation. I feel ill every time I think about it. But I can’t keep it from him much longer.

Human beings don’t deal well with rejection. Back when our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, being ostracized from a tribe was akin to a death sentence. For that reason, rejection is experienced by human beings as being incredibly painful. Studies using functional MRI have shown the same areas of the brain become activated both during rejection and during real physical pain.

It’s a secret room.

It’s not like she used the bathroom yesterday.”

Then

So my crazy theory so far is that either ethan is luke who killed dc orrrrr/and shes still alive

But then my heart drops into my stomach. The painting of Dr. Adrienne Hale. The one that Ethan took down and placed facing away from us. It’s back on the wall. And Dr. Hale’s green eyes are boring into me.

I believe that any human being is capable of terrible things if you push them hard enough.

“Fine,” he says. “I killed her.”

After all, my mother always said that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead.