Chapter 405

Langston nearly dropped his fork in shock. “1… It’s my neighbor’s sister!”

Everett placed the dishes on the table and sat down in front of him.

“Langston, it’s not good for kids to lie all the time.”

“I’m not lying.”

“You have a sister. Your mom had two kids.” Everett’s words weren’t a question. They were a statement – a statement of certainty.

But that wasn’t the point. The real issue was the panic visible in Langston’s eyes after Everett spoke.

That meant Everett had hit the nail on the head. Even if it took a little cunning to draw it out

“I’m not hungry anymore!” Langston felt like everything was laid bare before Everett, and it was better to just avoid the topic altogether. He tried to put down his fork and leave.

wrist before he could

dinner. Before

I’ll

ahead and cry. No one else lives

he’d scanned for electronic devices nearby and found very few, a sure sign that it was sparsely

piled some meat and veggies onto

especially after getting a taste of the food,

ask me any

smiled, then asked out of the blue, “Did your mom

his slip–up too late. “I’m

I won’t ask any more

just

before. It was you who spoke. Now I’m promising not to ask for the rest of today.”

things. There would be plenty of time

win. He now knew he probably

remarried, it likely wasn’t a lie. So, the sister Langston

Twins, perhaps?

it couldn’t be that he’d accidentally done it with other

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