I hired a fake boyfriend for a Fourth of July party to face my ex—but what he did next shocked everyone and changed everything

down.

“What are you doing?”

Everyone mistook silence for peace.

She did not answer at first.

Her eyes were on me.

Not smug now.

Not pretty in the victorious way she had been all afternoon.

Frightened.

She did not answer at first.

Then she asked, “Do I apologize this much too?”

Ryan’s face went pale.

“Lucille.”

She waited.

He said nothing.

The silence answered for continue reading …