Maya went stiff.
"Do not bother trying to protect him or anything, whether for his benefit or for your own reasons; tell me everything. I can see that you are a little tense. I take it you are hiding something from me?"
Maya flinched, she panicked, and her gaze drifted to the floor.
Smith's gaze sharpened, "Tell me everything."
Maya's eyes trembled, so he already knew that she was hiding something. It seemed her efforts to conceal some truths from this man had been easily read.
Regardless, since she had been found out, it would be foolish to try to hide anything more, lest she bring down his ire upon herself. But that didn't mean she couldn't divert his suspicions with half-truths.
She let out a breath, and so, she began giving him a brief account of how she had been pitted against Elion and how he had thoroughly thwarted her plans despite her having the upper hand.
