Chapter 239

Ashton hit the speaker button, breathing hard. Cassian's voice drifted out, slow and sleepy. "Ashton. What's up?" "Did you tell my wife I had some other crush before I married her?" "What? What are you on about? When would I have—" A pause. Cassian sounded more alert now. "Wait. You mean before you two got hitched?" "Yes!" "Well, let me think... Yvaine asked something about your love life once. Ages ago. I said you'd been into someone for years. You never told me to keep it under wraps, so I just mentioned it. Why?" "Did you tell her the woman I liked was a dancer?" "What dancer?" Cassian genuinely sounded confused. "Why the hell would I say that? Since when is she a dancer?" "So that didn't come from you?" "What didn't? Are you high?" "I'm not. Are you?" "What? No!" Ashton exhaled sharply. "Tell me exactly what you said to Yvaine." "What I just told you. That you'd been carrying a torch for some woman." "Did you name her?" "No. Back then, I didn't know it was Mirabelle." Cassian's ton