What I didn’t tell Nicholas, and I can barely admit to myself, is that I’m jealous. I shouldn’t have expected him to fight against pretend dating. After all, I’m the one requesting it, but I did. Against my better judgment, when he’d asked when we’d start the charade of him dating, something snapped inside of me. A bone-deep feeling that made my stomach turn and my chest burn with the need to deny him. To scream at him that he’s married to me and how dare he even pretend to date other women. But the slight curve of his lip had my carefully controlled emotions shredding apart, and all rational
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