Chapter Twenty-Two

Luke was becoming more and more insecure. Days passed, and he couldn’t help but feel restless. Any time he had breakfast or dinner with Katie, his mind would always revert back to the moment at the hospital when she’d bragged to her friend about hurting herself to frame Leslie. Luke had difficulty understanding why someone would deliberately go to such lengths to hurt themselves by pouring hot stew all over themselves just to get rid of someone else. Wasn’t that madness? Well, it was, but what could he do? He couldn’t confront her about it yet, though he was burning to do so. The problem was that Katie acted so normally and treated him lovingly. Had Luke not known about her potential motive and the lie she made up against Leslie, he’d have considered himself the luckiest man alive to have been able to get the love of his life to love him back. That morning, before going to the hospital, Luke asked about her scar. “Have you checked the burn wounds? Is there scarring?” Katie shook h