The Husband Game by Wylder Penny

Author:Wylder, Penny
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

9

Four days in, and so far the experiment is proving to be a success, at least as far as Fiona is concerned. “Have you seen the hits that first article is getting?” she keeps declaring every time I stop by the office, making me come over to her desk and physically look at the tracking results on the screen, even though I could check from my own computer just as easily.

But I haven’t. I don’t want to. Something about it has started to feel weird. I wrote about our first date (the PG-13 version, anyway, so heavily edited), then the way he dropped me off at my place after (omitting the fact that I did in fact spend the night at his before he dropped me off the next morning). I wrote about how we met up for breakfast another day, and traded childhood stories over coffee and croissants—well, croissants for me, and a heap of protein for Charlie, because, training regime.

Apparently the story struck a nerve. People were all about reading the intimate details of a “traditional” relationship. So many people were leaving comments talking about how romantic it sounded, how they wished they could find a guy like this, start a love story like this.

It makes my coffee curdle in my stomach, now, to think about it. Because I know what’s coming. I know this whole article series is just a set-up to a disastrous end that will leave people angry, heartbroken. Or maybe just impressed at my writing, I don’t know.

Not for the first time, though, I wonder if this is really a good idea. Or if I just let Fi talk me into it because I’m scared of the alternative. Scared of not having anything catchy to write about at the moment, so my name and my work will fall into obscurity.

But is that worth going through this? Is that worth getting so close to Charlie only to have to blow it all up soon?

I don’t know the answer.

I should probably figure it out, I keep telling myself. Especially tonight, our first long weekend together, as I dress to go to his big Friday night hockey game. Apparently they’re playing a big rival team, so tonight’s game should be well attended, a packed stadium full of—well, Charlie’s classmates. Other students. Other girls, girls closer to his age and sharing his classes, who I’m sure all have eyes for their team’s hot starter.

Charlie may downplay how good he is, but I’ve looked him up over the past couple of days—mostly whenever I needed to link to articles about him in the student paper from my own article, with his permission of course. He’s the co-captain of the team, and their lead center. The other captain is the goalie, and the only other player on the team with a better rating than Charlie. Granted, their team isn’t the best out of the college league they’re in, but they’ve been playing a stellar season. Some of the articles I’ve

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