Chapter 29
Wren
For a few blissful minutes, I had forgotten.
I had forgotten the gossip, the whispers, the cheating, my mother, the article, the cheerleading team questioning my captaincy, and the way people looked at me as if I had suddenly become the villain of a story I never wrote. Sitting here, eating the pizza I had loved since childhood, talking to Gabriel and getting lost in old memories... for a moment, it almost felt like my life had gone back to normal.
But reality always found its way back.
I looked at Knox, who had gone unusually quiet. His dark eyes stayed on me, patiently waiting for whatever I had run all the way to the rink to tell him.
I took a slow breath.
"I want us to fake-date."
The words hung between us.
"The deal you offered me before..." I continued, refus
