Chapter 65

~Nivea

I pulled my hands away and headed to the kitchen, “It’s nothing serious,” I shrugged off and walked into the kitchen. 

I saw Zane with an apron on and just sweatpants with no t-shirt on. It was so sexy, that I totally forgot I was supposed to come up with a lie to sell Leo, so she stopped bugging me about the bruise.

“That’s not nothing Nivea,” she said seriously.

“You’re just seeing this? it‘s been there since the beginning of this week,” I said, acting like it had been there the whole time and she just didn’t notice it.

She furrowed her brows at me, “No, it’s not, if it was I would have noticed it,” she argued but I could see the wheel turning in her head, trying to remember if she had seen it before. That was how gaslighting worked anyway.

“You probably didn’t notice because we were so busy with school stress coupled with trying to