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Fiona squeezed her back “Obviously so spectacular”

It was true, and it had to have been in a past life because this one was kind of a ra wasn’t an option, a person faked it until they ame plan since she’d arrived in Harbor City, and she had no plans to change it As long as she could keep up that perfect-life pretense, it would happen

“I’ that out there in the universe,” she ain”

However, when she walked over to her cubicle—ignoring the curious looks and barely whispered comments from her coworkers—and found an empty cardboard box on her desk, she knew the universe was team Evil Twin It had to be

The light on her phone blinked on a second before her boss’s voice cah on the intercom “Hadley, can you please come see me?”

She didn’t have to ask what about The box kinda made that pretty apparent

“I’ll be there in just aup the reserves of her fake-it-until-you-h of for this moment

Then she packed up the personal items on her desk into her now-full box and carried it to her boss’s corner office, head held high and sniffles on lockdown because if faking it had ever ht now

The only thing that kept her froht then was the memory of Will’s shocked expression when he’d realized what they’d done If she could survive Will thinking for even afired

She hoped

…

The Holt family country home o and a half hours north of Harbor City It was also aone of the two ible bachelors and sole heirs to the fortune Jereame in a half-burned-out speakeasy in the very woods Will was staring at while trying to figure out how to get his brother to ghost that woman

She has a name

No He was not going there Not again He’d done that too many times since that kiss at the fundraiser and it had—without a single exception—ended up with hi one out like he’d never made out with soht be an exaggeration, but it wasn’t like Hadley was special

Shit