was buying th

room one afternoon. He was handsome in a

Blake Harrison. My ex. And my biggest business riva

y and walked over to Tori'

cerity. "I heard what happened. And I heard about... this.

I said, standing

ow Tori. She wouldn't marry a... guit

t he's still a jerk. Tell him his new ele

I said, keeping

fired her own mentor to get ahead. The one who dated me for two years just to get access to

ormance. He almost

d a chea

my code! And I dated Blake because I was 25 and had terrible taste in

ithm you tried to steal from her back in 2019? Or the mentor who

. He looked genuinely shocked. "

e secrets," I

m, his mind clearly racing. He couldn't f

d. You were like my own personal lie det

a woman showed up at the hospital's coffee sh

ed. "I'm Chloe. I'm, like, a huge fan

id dryly. She has the desperate eyes of a

. It was clumsy and obvious. Blake had clearly sent her. When her flirting failed, s

e constant mental chatter, the public

red to the empty room. "J

t back, sounding

me? We just vanquished my arch-nemesis! You can't just walk

ed at the air. "We're not ev

rted. You ate tacos for

ead about the status of our fake r