The Complete Truth and Lies Duet

TESSA

Shut up and look pretty, sweetheart.The instructions were simple.1. Do as you're told.2. Don't ask questions.3. And always smile. Men find it more attractive when you smile.Unfortunately, the job description forgot the part about not punching your partner square in the jaw. Guess they should have been more specific?Not that life lessons really mattered to a dead guy. Or the other halfwits looking to clean up his mess. If only the truth had been as easy to bury...But the past, yeah, it had a way of creeping up on you. Especially when you forgot the most important rule: 4. Don't mix business and pleasure. Again.

STERLING

If it comes down to the story or you, I will choose the story. Every damn time.She couldn't have been more clear. But that organ in his chest? The one that quickened when a certain smart-mouthed, pain-in-the-ass tabloid writer entered the room. It had a bad habit of hoping what it heard was wrong. And not giving a damn if it wasn't.After all, she had said it herself: It takes two people to end things. One to leave. And the other to let them.Yep, much like everything else in their relationship, he wasn't about to make it easy for her. No matter how harsh the truth...Or sweet the lie.