None of This Is True

by Lisa Jewell

Her instincts tell her very strongly to walk away, but she came here for a reason. She came here because the journalist inside her couldn’t resist the tantalizing essence of the words

I was scared of his wanting me. I couldn’t believe that nobody else could see it. Only me. It was so big and so real. But my mother didn’t see it. Helen didn’t see it. But I saw it. And I was scared of it.”

She can sense something bigger than her here, something dark and brilliant, with every fiber of her being.

All she had wanted, from the moment they first got together, was to please him, to be the person he thought she was, to be his dream come true.