“When?”
“About two months ago.”
I sat up straight.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because Nathan told me you knew.”
I couldn’t speak.
Then Rachel added:
“There was something else.”
“What?”
“He got a letter from a debt company.”
“What did it say?”
“I don’t remember everything.”
“Rachel.”
She took a breath.
“It said they were going to pursue someone else if Nathan didn’t pay.”
My blood went cold.
“Someone else?”
“Yes.”
“Who?”
Rachel’s voice became barely audible.
“You.”
I stopped breathing.
She continued:
“Nathan told me it was nothing.”
I stared at the dark hotel window.
The city lights blurred in front of me.
All this time, I had thought Nathan’s lies were about money.
But now I realized they were about something much bigger.
He hadn’t simply hidden his debt from me.
He had been trying to keep me from discovering that some of that debt…
