*Tell Lisa*
367 Words
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*CRASHING INTO YOU*
*Chapter 11*
*NOELLE'S POV*
I made it inside before my hands started shaking.
I dropped the card on the kitchen counter and stared at it.
`Ethan Cole` s number
My phone buzzed.
Lisa: `u alive?? how was the date with jack??`
I called her.
“Girl,” I said the second she picked up. “Ethan Cole asked me to marry him.”
Silence.
Then: “WHAT.”
Ten minutes later Lisa was at my door with ice cream and two bottles of wine.
“Start from the beginning,” she said, kicking off her shoes.
So I told her everything.
The setup. Jack. The scene. Me calling Ethan hubby.
Ethan saying “love I can never stay mad at you.”
Then the car.
“Marry me. Three days to think about it.”
Lisa stared at me with the spoon halfway to her mouth.
“Noelle.”
“What?”
“Ethan. Cole. Asked. YOU. To marry him.”
“Yes.”
“Ethan Cole who fires people for breathing wrong?”
“The same.”
“Ethan Cole whose face is on every business magazine but has never been photographed with a woman?”
“Yes, Lisa!”
She put the ice cream down.
“Okay. Okay. Pros and cons. Pro: You never have to see Jack Wilson again. Pro: Your grandma will stop setting you up. Pro: He’s rich. Pro: He’s—”
“Lisa.”
“Pro: Did you see him? In that suit? Saying ‘love’?”
I threw a pillow at her. “This is serious!”
“I know it’s serious!” she said. “That’s why you’re freaking out. But Noelle... think about it. A fake marriage. To Ethan Cole. To solve both your problems.”
I groaned and fell back on the couch.
“Three days,” I whispered. “What if I say yes and it’s a disaster?”
“What if you say no and your grandma sets you up with 10 more Jacks?”
We sat in silence.
Then Lisa grinned. “Girl. You have to at least consider it.”
I picked up the card again.
Three days.
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