Chapter 12

Aryan-

My attention stayed on him for a long time, after returning to his side to watch. I didn’t know why, but seeing his eyes narrow on his target, the set of his jaw, the way he turned his body slightly to adjust his stance, and the focus he held as he prepared the dart, made me fall in love with him all over again. Seeing him take this outing seriously, the memory of the bet came rushing forward.

I knew that there was no way I could win this bet. If I won, I would want him to hate me. However, if I purposefully lost the bet, then maybe I would have a chance with him. I couldn’t tell him about the bet now, at least not until after the deadline, so he would see that I had lost on purpose.

At least, that was the only thing I could think of that might salvage things. There was still the matter that he would hate me for lying to him about who I was. I had to believe that if I proved that everything between us was real, he would understand why I had to keep it from him.

It was beyond me