NORA

A wave of guilt hit me, so sharp it almost choked me. I wanted to spill the truth right there just for one dangerous second, I wanted to tell him everything.

That my name wasn’t Laura.

That I was just a tired girl drowning under the weight of a messy cycle of endless debts and survival he couldn't even fathom. A girl who had no business being in a car like this, wanting a man like him. My reality was completely incompatible with his world.

I wanted to tell him he’d been right from the very beginning. That the girl he met at the bar was a lie, and...