I Pretend Do: A Billionaire Fake Wedding Romance by Eva Luxe

Author:Eva Luxe [Luxe, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sizzling Hot Reads
Published: 2018-01-14T18:30:00+00:00

27

The garden’s beautiful today. As Jessica and I stroll along the rows, stopping occasionally to touch blossoms and comment on the vibrant colors that Marilyn has managed to conjure here in the middle of the concrete city, I catch myself feeling something. It takes me a second, and then I realize, it’s happiness. It’s not that I don’t feel happy generally that means this is a surprise - more accurately, it’s just that I feel happy with Jessica. This whole thing was just a one-time goof, and now here we are a week later, holding hands in a garden and picking out flowers.

Jessica keeps sneaking glances at her phone in between plants. That doesn’t bother me - but the disappointed look that flits across her face every time she puts her phone away does, somehow.

“Hey, Jessica? Is something wrong?”

She looks at me, almost as if she’s surprised I’m asking. “What?”

“Not that it matters, but you keep staring at your phone like you’re waiting for Godot to show up.”

“Oh! It’s silly, I’m sorry. It’s just…my friend Rosa and I had a fight the other day, and I never feel good when we’re upset with each other. We’ve been friends for so long that something just feels off when we’re not okay. That must sound really silly to you.”

“Nah, I get it. If my friend Nikki’s ever upset with me, I can’t sleep at night. Although that’s mostly because I’m afraid she’s coming to murder me in my sleep, so.” I pause, then push ahead. “Do you want to talk about it?”

Jessica stops, running her fingers over a batch of blooming ladyslippers. “I don’t know. I mean, Rosa’s always been, like, my wild-side. And the other day, she told me that she and her partner are thinking about fostering a kid.”

“I take it your reaction wasn’t what she wanted?”

“It’s not like I was horrible, you know? I was just…surprised! Rosa always talked about kids like they were the ultimate surrender, you know? Like once you had one of them, you could never go back. I guess I just never pictured here as someone who would want that. And now she’s so upset with me, and it just feels awful. She’s even the one who convinced me I should go looking for a guy that night at the club, so really, she’s half the reason we’re here right now, and I can’t even tell her how happy that’s made me.”

‘How happy that’s made me’. She’s happy. Happy with us. I revel silently in that information for a moment, and then set it aside with a deep breath. There are more important things to say right now. “You know, this was the one place that my ex let me choose when we were planning our wedding. Everything else had to be her decision, because she’d been thinking about it since she was a little kid, right? She was so sure about everything. Not that I had a problem with that, most of the time - it’s just the way it goes.

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