TAYLOR

River lying to her father about me did not sit right, and I don't know why I wanted to get to the bottom of the reason for her lies.

"Did your father forbid you from staying in the same room with a boy?" I ask, and she looks up at me with the corner of her eye and shakes her head.

"We never spoke about it, but I assume it is something he wouldn't want me to do," she replies, and I tilt my head. I don't want to be caught up in any kind of mess in the future, so I am going to get to the ...