“Don’t play dumb with me, Jude, okay? Just don’t.”

“What, you mean my dad? Lani, I –– that was nothing. You know that. I told you it was my fault.”
“Don’t play dumb with me, Jude, okay? Just don’t.”

“What, you mean my dad? Lani, I –– that was nothing. You know that. I told you it was my fault.”
She shakes her head a bit, taken aback by how the transition formed so quickly. One minute to the next, everything that...