Plot Twist by Bethany Turner

Author:Bethany Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

“You okay?” I asked Fi, my back still turned to him.

It was as if someone had snapped their fingers and broken Fiona free of hypnosis. It was so instant that it was almost creepy, and I couldn’t help but wonder if for the rest of her life she was going to cluck like a chicken whenever someone said, “Peanut butter and jelly.”

“Liam!” she squealed in apparent delight. “What in the world are you doing here?”

Then I had no choice but to turn around, because there could be no doubt that all eyes were going to be on her . . . and by extension us. Liam was blocked by half the current members of the Hasty Pudding Club, but I caught Brandon’s eyes. I tried to unlock some special sibling powers to telepathically communicate that this was the Liam I had told him about. Love-of-my-life Liam. Most-serious-relationship-Fiona-had-ever-had Liam. Maybe if I got lucky, I could also communicate that Fi had told a bald-faced lie when she said I was making a movie with Hamish MacDougal and that he should break the news to our parents. And maybe, if I concentrated, I could even get him to order me a drink and have it delivered to me somewhere a little farther away from the scene that was currently unfolding—like New Hampshire.

“What?” Brandon mouthed at me as he shrugged, and I silently cursed our wasted childhood in which we had not worked together to develop even one secret language between us.

“Uh . . . Fiona. Wow,” Liam stammered. “Wh-what are you doing here? I mean, it’s great to see you, of course—”

“You two know each other?” Samantha asked.

“We, um . . .”

“We’re old friends,” Fiona interjected, cool as a cucumber, and then she hurried over to hug him.

I watched her pass and caught Brandon’s eyes again as she did. He got it now. Too little, too late. “Liam?” he mouthed emphatically.

I closed my eyes and nodded subtly.

Brandon knew more than most, but even he didn’t know all the salacious details about the strange, dramatic history Liam, Fiona, and I shared. He knew I’d dated him for eight months. He knew he’d become my closest friend while Fiona was in Paris. And he knew that in Italy I’d begun to look at breaking up with Liam as the great regret of my life. But he also knew that by the time I got back home, Fiona and Liam were together. And from that point on, the details I shared with my brother were intentionally vague, evasive, and often downright untruthful.

Brandon didn’t know that, and he certainly didn’t know why.

“Dance with me, Brandon,” Fiona insisted as she pulled him onto the dance floor, and I was left alone in an impossible situation. In true coward’s fashion, I swiveled back to the table with lightning-like reflexes that proved my organs were not on the verge of succumbing to hypothermia after all. I just couldn’t catch a break!

I wanted to kill her. I’d stuck around and

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