Chapter 47.
Tessa’s POV.
I turned slightly in bed and bumped into the rocky hardness of Jake’s body still sleeping beside me. Head his arm draped around my midriff. We’d barely slept the previous night. Once we got off the plane, we were chaperoned to the house by a waiting car and an entourage.
We were treated with the delicateness of royalty and it felt satisfying to be addressed with so much respect. Everything was looking so perfect, until we arrived at Jake’s parent’s mansion. The looks on their faces once I introduced myself as Jake’s girlfriend could have melted ice in the Antarctic.
His mother had looked squarely at me— before the introduction of course— and asked, “Honey, did you hire a new secretary in Texas?”
Of course the moment has been awkward and Jake had rubbed the bac
