The Secret Girlfriend's Revenge: No Second Chances

rayson a secret to protect his tech career, pl

find hundreds of colleagues enthusiastically betti

xplanation. His reply was dismissive: "Just office banter.

rumors down, Grayson b

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y youth for his success, only to be thrown aw

ng," my nails digging into my pa

desk one by one, tucking them into my bag-they wanted to see me

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I have been secretly

er, and had us enter through different revolving doors seven minutes apart every morning. Until today, when

tte at eight in the morning; Kloe wearing his Arc'teryx jacket in the breakroom

acing bets. Ten bucks says Gray makes it official tonight. Look at this one-he saved her a seat next to him and swept y

aft still had my red-pen edits from three in the morning. I asked Grayson abou

ble," I said, keep

Kloe brings him homemade muffins every Tuesday, they take two o'clock wa

te until nine, eating a cold convenience store sandwich alone, he was sitting at Kloe's desk sharing a bo

e just transferred in, I'm showing

st day to now, it had produced matching mugs, Tuesday muffins, and Sou

months ago, when Kloe transferred from Austin, I was the one who introduced her to Grayson-she was my college roommate. On her fi

e and the sixty-eight photos, screenshotted the account that posted it, th

utes. Te

Can you not be such a prude

bed my bag, and walked t

wore a pastel pink knit sweater, shivering in the cold. He had his briefcase on his left shoulder, her canvas tote o

ward and bloc

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e switched to a polite, distant corpor

id, looking him straight in th

f a step back. "What are you talki

is mine. I w

"Oh, Blair, it's Gray's scarf. He

Kloe's shoulders and tucked the ends neatly into her collar. "Wear it. You caught a chi

d, and one called out loudly, "Look at t

ppled throu

my favorite laundry detergent. She glanced at me through her lashes, the

ng our relationship. He was protecting his license t

atience. "We're heading to the parking garage. You coming

Kloe wrapped

a clear distance between us. A

d. "You two

swer. I turned and walke

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