My Fake Real Heart
The world imploded that night: the man I thought I’d spend forever with, entwined with my dearest friend. It wasn't a dainty crack, a little chip in the china;....
The world imploded that night: the man I thought I’d spend forever with, entwined with my dearest friend. It wasn't a dainty crack, a little chip in the china; it was a seismic event, a complete and utter shattering. My sense of self? Gone. My faith in humanity? Seriously bruised. I vowed, with the fervor of a thousand suns, never to let anyone get that close again. Then he walked in. Alex Alli. My new boss. Think brooding, enigmatic, a walking contradiction. We'd met once before, a fleeting encounter on the night my life went supernova. He'd witnessed my utter desolation, and I assumed that was the end of our story. But then, bam! He asks me to be his girlfriend, not some fairytale romance. Just a month. A calculated deception, a carefully crafted charade to appease his family. And now my poor, foolish heart, the one I'd sworn to barricade behind impenetrable walls, is doing the equivalent of a tap dance on the edge of a cliff. It's betraying me, again. A repeat offender, that heart of mine. The truly terrifying part isn't the potential for another heart-wrenching fall. No, the real horror is the chilling possibility that I might not survive the plummet this time. This isn't just a game; it's a high-stakes poker match with my emotional well-being as the ante. And I'm all-in.