RIVER

When I get back out already in my pyjamas and see Taylor fully dressed waiting on the couch, I feel guilty, but there was no way I was going to step out of the house with him and let everyone know that I knew him. What were they going to say if they knew we shared a house?

"River?" He sounded disappointed. The first time he addressed me by my first name, he was disappointed, and why did I care about something like that?

"Hmm?" I ask with my back to him as I take a bottle of water from the ...