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Chapter Two

Eliza felt like an idiot. Man, oh man, what had she done?

Kane was no doubt about to ask her the same thing, along with blowing her lies to smithereens, but Violet put a stop to him saying much of anything. He managed a grunt before Violet pushed them together at the exact moment when Eliza was looking up at him. And Kane was looking down at her.

Or rather glaring at her.

Violet finished pushing, and Kane’s mouth landed on Eliza’s for what had to be the stiffest kiss ever. One of the best kisses ever, too.

Here, all these years she’d fantasized about kissing Kane, and now they were doing exactly that even if it wasn’t what Kane wanted to do. Even with that extreme limitation, it certainly lived up to expectations, but it was part of the snowball of lies.

Kane didn’t let the scalding kiss go on. After just a few seconds, he pulled back, and his glare got significantly worse.

“Is there something you want to say to your sister?” he asked Eliza.

This was easy. No, she didn’t want to admit to the white lie that had turned into a series of whoppers. But she had to fess up. Now that Violet was engaged, maybe it wouldn’t even matter.

“She doesn’t have to tell me anything,” Violet blurted out before Eliza could get her mouth working. “It’s just so nice to see both of you happy.” She glanced at the stalls, hobbled around a little on her toes. “Now, if you don’t mind getting out of here, I have to pee. Like right now,” she added when they didn’t budge.

Kane volleyed glances at them while Violet continued to hobble around. Just when Eliza was about to confess all, Violet hurried past them and into one of the stalls. Despite there being a door on the stall, Kane bolted out as if someone had scalded him.

“We’ll talk when you’re finished,” Eliza told her sister. She followed Kane into the bar, not near anyone though, because Kane pulled her to the side.

“When she comes out, you tell her the truth,” he demanded just as Eliza gave him another “I’m so sorry.”

“The truth,” he emphasized. “And don’t apologize again. It won’t help. The only thing that’ll fix this is to tell Violet the way things really are.”

“I will.” She paused. “But you don’t think it could wait until after the wedding? Just hear me out,” she added when Kane growled out a no. “It’s just for a couple of days, and then I’ll tell her the truth when she’s back from her honeymoon. I don’t want anything to put a damper on her mood.”

“And this would?” He cursed, and it seemed to take him a couple of seconds and another round of profanity to find the words he wanted to say. “Why the hell would Violet care if we’re together or not?”

Uh-oh.

He was not going to want to hear this, but she’d already told so many lies that she had to go with the truth. “Violet knows I’ve always had a thing for you. And she was worried about you, that you would take her engagement hard. Worried about me, too, because I broke up with my boyfriend. She thought this would be the perfect fix for both of us.”