Chapter90: Complicated Situations

Chapter 90: Complicated Situations  XENOIS I looked up at him, meeting his concerned looks. It seemed like he had set aside our feud to worry about something more important. "What do you mean?" "I mean you're more agitated than usual, even considering everything that happened yesterday. And every time you look at Lumina, you get this expression on your face like you're about to confess to murder." I felt my stomach clench with dread and nausea as I realized what this meant. Thorne had always been perceptive, able to read my moods, and have a calculated guess at my thoughts better than anyone else. But I wasn't ready to tell him about Riley's DNA, and I wasn't ready to admit that I had no idea how I'd fathered a child without knowing it. "I'm just dealing with the aftermath of yesterday," I said, hoping he'd accept the deflection that I was handing out on a silver platter. "The incident at school, Sophia's disappearance and all that stuff, you know?." "Bullshit," Thorne said bluntly, ro