15: Sweetheart

“What's this?” Spencer narrows his eyes at the content on his table.

Like a novice spy, I study his reaction carefully. And just like a novice spy, I find nothing out of the ordinary. His regular demanding tone and suspicious look on his face are all I get.

“It's a flyer.” My response doesn't help him and it shows. He grows impatient with me.

“It's about parenting classes. They are giving the first two classes free as trial classes.” His eyebrows remain raised as if he were silently asking me where I was going with it.

“What's this doing on my desk?” His voice is calm and collected as usual.

“Nothing. I was thinking of giving it to my older sister. She is having a baby.” With that I snatch the flyer from his hand.

I'm a loser when it comes to lying. The truth is that I still can't fully trust him. That night he claimed he didn't have a girlfriend. But how could I let the fact slide that he was talking about a child with someone? I just wanted to confirm something. I wanted a rea