“Is everything okay? You don’t seem to be smiling.”

I lowered my head, feeling like I had made a mistake from the start. I shouldn’t have listened to Uncle or done what he wanted.

“I’ve been thinking about the dinner I had with Zack at the restaurant. I can’t believe he lied to my face.”

The revelations from the past few days have been overwhelming. Everything he said to me seemed sincere while he was doing something entirely different behind my back.

“It’s your uncle who ...