Chapter 38

ELLIE

“What…?” I tried to play dumb for the first couple of moments, but it was clear that I wouldn't be making it out of that with those cheap tricks. “What are you talking about, Aiden?”

“Of course, you know what I'm talking about…” Aiden wasn't going to back down easily as he had seen all of it. He had probably seen everything that night he hid under my bed from his mother. “I saw all those vodka bottles you had stuffed under your bed.”

“What vodka bottles…?” I was pushing my luck farther than I was meant to at that point and I wasn't sure what Aiden was going to do in turn as he seemed like he was trying to make something out of the bottles he had seen under my bed. “Don't tell me you've been on something all this while.”

I hated the fact that I was having that conversation after such a long day. His mother could be anywhere listening to that conversation.

If she happened to find out about my secret habit that would go a long way in changing get perspective of me and she would be