#Chapter 175: Don’t Lie To Me

I freeze as I look to the door. Caleb stands there, glowering at me. Bethany looks nervously between us. “Uh, please excuse me,” she says and quickly makes her way to the door. She slides around Caleb, whose gaze is fixed solely on me, and escapes. With Caleb looking right at me, though, I have no possible way out of this scenario. “Were you planning on going somewhere?” Caleb asks, his face grim, his mouth in a hard, thin line. “No,” I says. “It’s nothing like that. We were just talking.” Caleb stalks into the room, his gaze ever on me. I feel like the prey to a great predator moving in close, ready for the kill. With how things are, maybe I’m not too far off the mark. “It didn’t sound like just talking,” he says. “In fact, it sounded as if you intended to put yourself in danger yet again.” He comes closer, right up in front of me, only a foot or so away and closing by the minute. “But you wouldn’t do that, would you, Harper. Endanger yourself. After knowing how much it u