#Chapter 236: Thank you for lying

Third person “Hey… Is everything okay?” Kayden paced into Nina’s room, watching her eyes carefully until she darted them away. She closed and locked the door behind him. “Uh, yeah. I think so. Just… something I wanted to talk to you about. Before I lose my nerve.” He pressed his lips together, nodding. Trying to think of some words to say while his mind was distracted, coming up with a dozen different possible reasons why Nina might be acting like this. “Come here,” she said, moving to the bed and taking a seat perched on the edge. When Kayden sat down beside her, so close their thighs were touching, she regretted not planning on sitting somewhere else, anywhere other than a bed, for this chat… “So?” he prodded gently. “What’s up?” “I know you and I,” Nina started, “we’re not committed. We’ve never talked about being exclusive. But we’ve gotten real close since I started staying here, and so I… I just feel like I need to tell you something.” She blurted out the next part quickly,