Blurb
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Blurb
She came back into my life, reminding me of a pact we’d made when we were kids. But she wants to shave a few years off the planned date…
Marriage? Right now? Not for us. What she wants is all fake.
I made a pact with her that if we hadn’t found true love with anyone else by the time we turned forty, then we would get married.
Pretending to be in love with someone whose smile melts my heart isn’t easy.
What I feel every time I touch her isn’t fake.
She’s not the same girl I used to know, though. Her manipulative ex made sure of that.
She used to shine so brightly, and he’s taken that light away nearly completely.
But there’s a glimmer I get to see in her now and then.
Love — real love — could make her shine again.
If only we could get rid of the threatening ***hole, who seems set on destroying her completely…
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