"I didn't know you liked keeping my picture as your wallpaper, Miss Vale!"
Silas's deep voice carried a teasing lilt, a smile tugging at his lips as his eyes gleamed with mischief. While the words hit Avery like a thunderclap.
Her breath hitched instantly. Her fingers froze mid-type, and for a long, mortified heartbeat, she didn't dare turn around. What did he just say?
When she finally did, her eyes widened comically as realization dawned. The wallpaper she had once kept when she had missed him and then completely forgotten to change.
'How could you forget that thing, Avery?!' she screamed internally, her heart pounding like a drum.
"This… thi—" she started, but her voice tripped over itself, her words tumbling out in broken syllables as her brain frantically tried to assemble an excuse but failed.
