Act Like You Love Me by Madsen Cindi

Author:Madsen, Cindi [Madsen, Cindi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, fake relationship, accidentally in love, bait and switch, entangled publishing, Series, high school crush, bliss, cindi madsen, small-town, falling for her fiancé
ISBN: 9781622660896
Publisher: Entangled: Bliss
Published: 2013-06-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Since this morning hadn’t been bad enough, Brynn had to drive all the way to the Bait and Tackle without having tea first. She’d meant to pick some up yesterday, but she’d been too busy riding an emotional roller coaster.

“Morning,” Paul said with a smile, and she wanted to punch him in the face—he was way too happy and bright-eyed this early. She zombie shuffled past him, squinting against the bright lights, and walked into the office.

“You hungover or somethin’?” Paul asked, way too loud.

Yeah, love hungover. “Or somethin’,” she answered, reaching for the coffee Paul kept brewing until about noon. The mugs didn’t look very clean, but she was so desperate for caffeine she picked one up anyway. She gave it a halfhearted wipe with one of the brown paper towels she always felt did a better job removing a layer of skin than drying hands, and filled the mug with coffee.

She frowned at the lack of cream and sugar. How could Paul drink this stuff black? She shuddered at the first sip, but eventually her tongue was burned enough she didn’t have to taste it anymore.

“I don’t think I’ve seen you grumpy since high school,” he said with a note of amusement, that stupid smile still on his face.

“So glad my grumpiness causes you joy.” She moved out by the register and set her mug down on the counter. “Hey, have you gone fishing with Dad at all this week?”

“Haven’t had time. He came in for a few minutes yesterday afternoon, though.”

“How did he seem?”

Paul shrugged. “Like Dad. We talked fishing, sales numbers. The usual.”

Brynn heard the chime over the door and groaned. She didn’t want to deal with people today.

Paul tapped the counter in front of her. “I’ve got it. Take a few minutes and listen to show tunes or do whatever it is you do to make yourself so bubbly all the time.”

Brynn ducked into the office, sat in the swivel chair, and propped her head in her hands. Show tunes weren’t going to help her now. Not after what happened at the end of last night’s rehearsal.

She’d tried to be cool after Sawyer’s whole bomb about running from commitment and how he was leaving…but she’d failed miserably—more like completely lost it. And now she wondered if Sawyer would ever talk to her again.

I wasn’t that bad, was I? A tight knot formed in her stomach. Yes, yes I was.

The entire rehearsal had been torture, to say the least. Every time her gaze had drifted to Sawyer, her heart would tug. And the times his eyes met hers sent squeezing pain through her lungs. She’d missed cues and lines, and by the end of it, all the other actors were as exasperated as she was.

When everyone had filtered off the stage, she wasn’t sure whether to bolt or stay. Talking to Sawyer would be painful; not talking to him would be painful. She’d waited too long to decide, though, because he’d walked toward her, a determined set to his jaw.

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