I didn't remember what I had planned, or even why or if I actually had a plan for keeping my career away from Dan.

The fact that he knew now filled my head and overwhelmed thoughts of whatever that plan might have been.

I figured I had two choices. I could pretend he didn't know and ignore the whole thing, hoping it would just go away, or I could give him the excuse I was a teenager when Mom and Dad signed my first two book deals because I was a minor and I never thought to mention it to him.

The first choice absolutely wouldn't work, and the second...