She didn’t get them at work. I’d given in to the need for a super-sized iced tea from the gas station/mini-mart. I sat in my hot car in the parking lot with all the windows rolled down and tried to figure out where to go from here. The roses were a dead end. The only people who knew where Melody got the roses and who they were from were Melody and the person who’d given them to her. I didn’t know why she’d lied to Ryan about the roses in the first place. Based on my own experience, people in a relationship lied to either spare the other person’s feelings or to hide something they were ashamed of. If she’d wanted to spare Ryan’s feelings, she wouldn’t have told him about the roses in the first place. Did that mean she’d lied to hide something she was ashamed of? Like what? Stacy was convinced Melody hadn’t cheated on Ryan, and from what Melody had shared with the world on Facebook, it looked like Stacy was her best friend. So if she hadn’t been cheating, what had she been ashamed of?
