Has He Ever Lied To You?
Hello everyone!
Need a summer book? Here’s a quick excerpt from my latest book The Man She Married…
Chapter One
He had lied.
He lied about his past, he lied about where he was from, and he lied about what he’d done before I met him.
All of it.
“What isn’t a lie, Zack?” I heard my voice pitch straight up, a screech and an accusation in one.
“Natalie, I—” He closed his eyes for a second, his face pale.
“Answer the question!” I slammed my hands down on the granite island in our kitchen. It hurt, but I didn’t even wince. The coffee machine gurgled. It gurgles every morning. The gurgling is usually comforting. Today it sounded as if it were choking which was exactly how I felt. “Answer it!”
He ran a hand over his eyes, his expression exhausted but determined. So determined. “What I told you from the time I lived in Alaska is all true.”
“And before that?” I had had enough lies already in my life; they had stalked my childhood, and I didn’t need any from him.
“What I told you about my life before Alaska is not true.”
“Is your real name Zack? Zack Shelton?”
His jaw tightened. “No.”
I hit the granite countertop again. I couldn’t believe this. My husband of five years, whom I had made love to, in the bath, last night, whom I had also made love to during halftime of the football game, was not named Zack.
