Say It's Not Fake by Brooks Sarah J

Author:Brooks, Sarah J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Whitney

I woke up disoriented. I sat up slowly, my unfocused eyes slowly adjusting to the bright light streaming through the thin, gauzy curtains.

Where the hell am I?

Then it all came back to me.

The wedding.

The dinner afterward.

Coming home with Kyle and the awkward goodnight outside my new bedroom door.

Everything felt surreal. Like I had dreamt it.

“Are you sure about this?” my mother had asked as she pinned up my hair. While Meg and Adam had been nothing but supportive, my mother had been more than hesitant about the idea of marrying Kyle to help him gain full custody of his daughter.

“Completely sure, Mom. I don’t know why you’re worried. It’s Kyle.” I took the pearl necklace that my dad gave me for my sixteenth birthday out of my jewelry box and put it on. I brushed my hair over my shoulder. Mom had twirled my hair into braids in a fancy half up/half down style. It looked amazing.

I reached for my lipstick, but my mom grabbed my wrist, stopping me. “Sweetie, it’s Kyle.” She said his name with emphasis. “The same man that caused you to stress about your wardrobe choice only a week ago. You’re telling me that this marriage is in name only? Who are you trying to kid? Me or yourself?”

I didn’t like her questions. Mostly because part of me was concerned about the same thing. I had decided to marry him on impulse. The look on his face when he talked about possibly losing Katie had torn me apart. I was flattered that he chose me to be the one to help him; that, despite what happened between us before, he was trusting me with the future of his child.

But after agreeing, things moved quickly. Almost too quickly. And he was asking what color I wanted him to paint my new room and what flavor coffee I preferred. I had been thrown headlong into the planning of this temporary life and started to get lost in the fantasy of being Kyle Webber’s wife. Which was stupid. This wasn’t real. It never would be. He needed me to sell this story, and it made sense I was the only one that could.

Only a handful of people knew the truth of our arrangement. To everyone else, we had fallen into a whirlwind romance.

I had the misfortune of running into Chelsea Sloane—Adam’s ex-wife and Josie Robinson’s former best friend—in the grocery store only days after the tale of our quick engagement started to make the rounds in the Southport gossip circles.

I had always loathed Chelsea. She had tried to play like she was queen bee when we were in high school, making my sister’s life a misery. I took every opportunity to put the snotty bitch in her place. And given that I, not Chelsea, was the queen bee of our high school, it wasn’t that hard.

She hated me. Almost as much as she hated Meg. Which was just fine with me. I was never concerned with what people thought of me.

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