Chapter 158

Annelise's POV

I looked at him with my heart pounding in my chest. I should have known he was going to find out regardless of how much I lied that day.

“I attended that event that night." I voiced out.

A stone expression was on his face, “Why did you lie?” He asked.

"I'm sorry.” I mumbled with an apologetic look on my face.

"Are you? You had all the time since that day for you to tell me the truth, but you didn't. You made me feel like i was crazy because I was so sure that you were there?” He walked around the room with his hand going wild in his hair.

“You know what's even more iconic? It's the fact that you looked so convincing that you didn't come. Why did you even lie? Did you connive with your father that night?" He asked.

I knew no amount of apologies could make up for the number of times I'd lied to him since we knew each other. I now understood why Simon called me a coward. Instead of facing my issues head-on, I lied my way out of them.

“I didn't connive with my father on an