Peony for your Thoughts by Alina Jacobs

Author:Alina Jacobs [Jacobs, Alina]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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After Her Fake Fiancé

After Her Fake Fiancé

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Avery

My life is built on a solid foundation of lies and fake relationships.

In third grade, I wanted to be class president. I convinced a little redheaded boy to be my boyfriend so I could capture the Pokémon vote. As I was being sworn in on a copy of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, I realized I had found the biggest life hack ever.

I honed my craft over the next decade. School dance, prom, graduation party, a wedding—your girl Avery brought a fake boyfriend. Yes, Aunt Becky, he’s totally the love of my life—I met him two days ago in a bar! I swapped bikini photos, gift cards, alcohol, and more for fake relationships. My fake boyfriends were varied too—nerdy guys, gym rats, and ex-Marines. Once I even fake dated an underwear model, though he was gay. In exchange, I had been his fake girlfriend for his family Christmas one year. He was now happily gay-married with two kids, while I had branched from fake relationships into fake jobs.

That was how I found myself sitting in the swanky ThinkX offices in Manhattan; I had lied up and down my resumé that I was an experienced personal assistant. Hey, don’t judge; I had to shut up my obnoxious half sister. I could not suffer through another family gathering where Cassie made snide comments about how I was a jobless loser with a useless hospitality degree.

I had expected that my new boss, Blade Svensson, would see right through the ruse after a day. He was a billionaire, after all, and with his brother, Weston, had built a powerhouse consulting firm. You would expect that a man like that would see through female lies and smoke screens, but you would be wrong.

Blade was the aloof, workaholic brother though, while Weston was the extroverted ladies’ man. Blade preferred to keep human female contact to a minimum. I wondered if that was why he hadn’t fired me, because I kept the distractions at bay.

Speaking of which, one of the interns was weaving her way to my desk, which guarded Blade's office. The women at the firm, especially the new hires, thought that Blade’s standoffishness was a weakness to be exploited. Who didn’t want a billionaire husband?

Kitty, hired only two days ago for a spring internship, minced over to my desk in her wobbly high heels and unprofessionally short dress.

“Blade isn’t in yet,” I said, baring my teeth at her.

She batted her eyelashes. “I just wanted to thank him for hiring me!”

I looked her up and down. “I can see your vagina in that dress.”

Kitty made a shocked noise and pulled at the stretchy fabric.

“Blade is a busy man,” I said. “He doesn’t date, and he certainly doesn’t want your bodily fluids all over his office.”

She tossed her hair. “You’re just keeping him for yourself! But I bet he would never be interested in you. You couldn’t attract someone like him even if you sprawled out naked on his desk.

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