Chapter 239

Ashton hit the speaker button, breathing hard. Cassian’s voice drifted out, slow and sleepy. ‘Ashton. What’s up?’ ‘Did you tell my wife I had some other crush before I married her?’ ‘What? What are you on about? When would I have—’ A pause. Cassian sounded more alert now. ‘Wait. You mean before you two got hitched?’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Well, let me think… Yvaine asked something about your love life once. Ages ago. I said you’d been into someone for years. You never told me to keep it under wraps, so I just mentioned it. Why?’ ‘Did you tell her the woman I liked was a dancer?’ ‘What dancer?’ Cassian genuinely sounded confused. ‘Why the hell would I say that? Since when is she a dancer?’ ‘So that didn’t come from you?’ ‘What didn’t? Are you high?’ ‘I’m not. Are you?’ ‘What? No!’ Ashton exhaled sharply. ‘Tell me exactly what you said to Yvaine.’ ‘What I just told you. That you’d been carrying a torch for some woman.’ ‘Did you name her?’ ‘No. Back then, I didn’t know it was Mirabelle.’ Cassian’s tone