Asher’s POV
“I don’t think it worked. If anything, I think I annoyed her—” I was pacing around in my bedroom, unable to forget the sadness and pain in those beautiful blue eyes when she saw us together. It hurt to pretend, even though all I wanted to do was pull her into a warm hug. “I think we messed it up, Kat. I don’t think it worked...”
“I told you it was a dumb idea in the first place,” she said with a sigh. “I shouldn’t have agreed to it.”
I clutched the phone tightly to my ear. “She looked hurt. I think we might have laid it on too thick. I don’t think our relationship can ever recover from this...” I raked my fingers through my hair, which was already sticking out at odd angles.
“Her walking in on us wasn’t the plan in the first place. We were supposed to get pictures of us in
