Elena's pov

"Okay, so I'll just say it was a mistake, the deal was about to fall through..."

I was talking to myself in my car, my hands gripping the steering wheel so tight my knuckles had gone white.

I'd been rehearsing what to say to Caleb for the last twenty minutes, sitting in the parking lot of the coffee shop Caleb and I practically grew up in, talking to myself like a complete idiot.

Just tell him the truth, it's simple.

You went to London, you panicked, you lied, now you need his ...