The Fake Engagement by Sam Crescent

Author:Sam Crescent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary, older man, billionaire, office romance, may/december
Publisher: Evernight

Chapter Ten

“So that’s three of your ten?” Mackenzie said.

“Can we not talk about that stupid list I made all those years ago and focus on what this Melinda woman said to me? You guys are my rock. You need to pull me down from the ledge,” Eliza said.

“Hate to break it to you, you’ve locked yourself in the bathroom while the family is getting ready for dinner. Don’t you think they’re going to assume you’re taking a number two?” Juliet asked.

Eliza wrinkled her nose. “I said I was also changing into my swimsuit. Perfect explanation for being in my room, and I didn’t say I was going to the bathroom.”

No, she’d locked the main bedroom door, then the bathroom door, just so she could have a private conversation with her two best friends.

“I want to meet this Melinda,” Mackenzie said.

“Me too.” This came from Juliet.

“Neither of you are going to meet her because you’re going to tell me that what she says is lies. I’m freaking out right now, and I need my two best friends to be logical. Not wanting to come and get your palms read.” She groaned. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it like that. You can come down, by all means. I wouldn’t mind.” She would have loved the company.

Mackenzie and Juliet laughed.

“Not helping,” Eliza said.

“You, yourself, have said many times how you don’t believe in any superstitions and yet, you’re on the phone, telling us about a woman you’ve met once, and now you’re scaring yourself about it.”

“She was really scary,” Eliza said. “I don’t know. I think it’s because the other women were so convinced what she said was real.”

“What other women?”

She told them about Preston’s brothers, their wives, and what happened.

Silence filled the line after she explained the dynamic to them.

“You guys still there?” she asked.

“We’re still here,” Juliet said.

“Why have you gone silent on me, guys?” She waited.

“Er, no reason at all. Let’s face it, there’s no way you and Preston are going to be sleeping together. I mean having sex. You’re sharing a bed, but there is a distance between the two of you. It’s not like you’re wrapped around each other?”

Eliza cringed. She hadn’t told them about what happened this morning. How she’d woken up to him holding her breast or the feel of him against her ass.

She was in deep trouble.

“You know what, you guys are so right about everything. I’m reading far too much into this, and I just have to focus. I better be getting ready before they think I’m taking a number two.” She frowned, slapping her forehead with her palm. “I better go. Bye.” She hung up the phone and blew out a breath. “Everything is going to be fine.”

She stood up and removed her clothes, then changed into the swimsuit and tied a robe around her waist.

Eliza wished she had Juliet’s body. This was going to be a disaster. Why did she agree to a swim? Her life was going to be over before she knew it.

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