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“You finished the book already?” I ask in surprise.
“Why? Why would you do this to me?!”
I smile. “You sound upset.”
“Yes, I’m upset!”
“Why are you upset?”
“Because I hate cliffhangers! I don’t read books with cliffhangers. I read stand-alone romantic comedies with full happily ever after endings, not slasher dramas where the killer gets away and, as if that weren’t bad enough, doesn’t get unmasked, so I have to read the second book to find out who dun it!”
“Yeah, about that...”
The silence is thick and delicious.
“What?” Paige asks.
“Well...” I lean against the headboard, getting a little more comfortable. “You don’t find out who the killer is in the second book.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes, I am serious.”
“Which book, then?”
I bite my lip to smother the chuckle just begging to escape. “I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“Yeah, we don’t actually know who the killer is... yet.”
“This...” She audibly exhales. “This is an ongoing series?”
“Yes, ma’am,” I answer.
“You made me start an incomplete, ongoing series?”
“Hey, I told you you didn’t have to read it, so technically you made you start it.”
“How many books are there?!” she asks, her voice getting louder.
“Fifteen,” I answer.
“Fifteen?!”
“Yup. Fifteen.” I smile wider. “I’ve been reading them since I was a teenager.”
Paige sputters angrily. “I — wha?—”
“Sounds like you and I are going to be friends for a very, very long time,” I tease.
She goes quiet. Deathly quiet.
And my smile deepens.
“I can’t believe you did this to me,” she finally says.
“Oh, come on.” I laugh. “It’s not that bad.”
