Any Way You Want It : An Upper Crust Series Novel (The Upper Crust Series Book 5) by McDonell Monique

Author:McDonell, Monique [McDonell, Monique]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Redfish Publishing
Published: 2017-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chloe had survived dinner. She really would have liked a medal. Instead, she was now going up to her bedroom to share a bed with a man for the first time and not just any man. Tom.

Tom who was about the sexiest guy she’d ever met. Tom with the kind heart, winning smile, and spectacular abs. Tom who walked around the house half naked so who even knew what he slept in. Tom who seemed to have made it his mission to rescue her on a daily basis.

She went into the bathroom and stared at herself in the mirror.

Who was she? She hardly recognized herself anymore. The girl looking back in the mirror had her face, but this life, this wasn’t her life. She came home alone, watched television, and did handicrafts.

She didn’t have millionaires to dinner and sleep with fake fiancés. In fact, generally speaking, she didn’t even tell lies, let alone ones of this size, to whole towns and whole families.

Tom appeared in the doorway behind her. He’d come in and shut the bedroom door.

“Are you okay?” he asked, his large frame filling the doorway, his hand holding on to the top of the frame, his face shadowed with concern.

“Yeah. Just wondering how we ended up here.”

“Your bedroom?”

“Yeah, well, specifically my bedroom, generally in this situation, I guess.”

He crossed the small room and stood behind her, a hand on each shoulder but had the conversation with them both facing the mirror.

“We got here because you had a problem, to which I was the solution.”

“I still have the problem.”

“And I’m still the solution.”

“It feels like that one lie has taken on a life of its own.” She sighed. “I’m not good at lying.”

“Chloe, it’s okay. It’ll all sort itself out.”

“People will be mad when they find out we were lying.”

He shook his head. “They won’t be. If they know why . . . or if you just tell them we broke up, people break up all the time.”

They were going to break up. She needed to remember that. Sometimes it was hard to keep track of what was real now and what was pretend. This was all pretend. Yes, Tom was standing here smiling at her, his warm hands sending heat through her core but the reason was not because he was in love with her and wanted to marry her. She needed to keep fantasy and reality way apart.

“I didn’t like lying to your parents,” she said.

“Well, me either, but I do like you, I did from the minute I saw you. None of that is a lie, Chloe. The feelings are real even if the circumstances are contrived.”

“Tom, you do not have real feelings for me,” she said firmly.

“Yes, I do.”

She shook her head. “No.”

He nodded his. “Yes. I do. I want to be with you all the time, I want to touch you, and I want to kiss you.” He leaned in, swept her hair away, and kissed her neck, just below her ear. “That is all very real.

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