Pretend Wife by Annie J. Rose

Author:Annie J. Rose [Rose, Annie J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 48720164
Published: 2019-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Abby

What was I supposed to do? Happily skip into his home like nothing was wrong when he’d just insulted one of my oldest friends? Okay, so maybe bringing Wyatt up here wasn’t the best decision I’d ever made, but the way Josh acted—like a lion with a thorn in his paw or an alpha male whose territory got peed on by a rival—was way over the top. Maybe I shouldn’t have called him an ass. Maybe he shouldn’t have acted like an ass. I sat on the bed, dejected. I scrolled through my social media feeds then looked at my calendar.

I saw the appointment pop up that his assistant had shared with me. We were supposed to meet privately with a rep at Harry Winston to choose an engagement ring. My stomach ached at the thought. We’d had a stupid fight. What if it ended with a stupid fight? I had to draw a line in the sand about the way he could treat my friends—not like they were servants he could dismiss. But we had to figure out how to be together. There were bound to be bumps in the road. I kind of hoped he wasn’t going to kick me out of his palatial Spanish villa because I talked back to him. He didn’t seem like the kind of man who was so insecure he couldn’t stand an opposing opinion, but until half an hour ago, I would’ve said he was way too confident to be threatened by an old boyfriend driving up.

It was our first fight. We’d have to figure out how to negotiate it together, reach an agreement about how we’d go forward. How we’d handle disagreements and resolve them. It was an important step, a necessary one in the growth of our relationship from acquaintances to lovers to spouses. I had expected, naïvely perhaps, that because we were making a deal, not a real marriage, that no one would get their feelings hurt. There’d be no messy fights, no worry insomnia when things went wrong. It could be smooth sailing, like friends who got along well. Except it wasn’t as easy as all that. It felt real, and it felt kind of raw. Like the guy who curled my toes last night had pissed me off, and I didn’t know how to sort out the complicated feelings of friendship, lust, and anger.

I sat on the bed, dumb with confusion. Everything felt too messy. My conviction that this was going to solve all our problems—his image, my living situation—plus give us both companionship and me the access to an A-list network was dissolving rapidly. I lay there in silence as the shadows gathered. I didn’t even bother to turn on a lamp.

A while later, he knocked on the bedroom door. I shook my head. I wasn’t sure I had the energy to deal with drama. Sara had moved out. My job was a headache. The house burned down. Then all the upheaval with meeting, liking, and fucking Josh Mason.

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