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Chapters (73)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. PRAISE FOR K. BROMBERG
  4. ALSO WRITTEN BY K. BROMBERG
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  64. CHAPTER SIXTY
  65. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  71. EPILOGUE
  72. EPILOGUE TWO
  73. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“I do. I think.” He leans back in his chair and crosses his arms with a shrug. “I don’t know, I don’t exactly do relationships.”

“Then how is this one supposed to be believable?” I ask.

“You’re the girl next door—baker next door. Grounded. Settled.”

“Boring,” I state.

“Normal,” he corrects.

Normal. That word is like a knife to the heart, reminding me of Paul’s bullshit and “hard truths” that he thought I should know about why he had to cheat on me.

There’s no spontaneity. Everything is even-keel all the time. Normal as normal can be and normal is the death of any person wanting to live life. You were killing me, Hendrix. Little by little. Day by day. This blah we lived in was killing me. God forbid she made me feel alive again.

I shake the words from my head, but hell, they still taste acrid on my tongue.

Fuck you, Paul.

“This was your idea? To ask me?” I ask Nathaniel, my voice wavering.

“No.” He lifts his chin toward his brother. “It was his.”

I look from Nathaniel to Jase. To a man who’s truly the opposite of everything I’ve ever liked or desired. And I do something that I think surprises the both of us.

I reach across the table, pull the contract that Nathaniel had set out earlier, and sign on the dotted line.

“Wow. Okay. What prompted that?” Jase asks.

I meet his gaze and hate the tears that well in mine. “I’m sick of being boring. Predictable. Normal. Maybe it’s time I do something unexpected to tip the scales.”

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER EIGHT

Gizmo

Nathaniel looks at me and nods.

“You have to promise me,” he says.

“I’m not going to sleep with her. Have no intention to. She’s good, real, wholesome.”

“Like that’s ever stopped you.” He puts a hand on my shoulder and squeezes. “But I’m serious. Keep your hands off her.”

I roll my eyes. “Thanks for being the pussy patrol, brother, but I can handle my own life.”

“You sleep with her, you won’t last the four months needed to prove this whole scenario out. Me being the pussy patrol”—he winces at the crass term—“is because you don’t date a woman longer than a month once you sleep with her. That’s a problem in this scenario. A huge fucking problem. You can’t lock your fake wife up in your house when she’s miserable because you’ve slept with and then discarded her.”

“I don’t do that.”

“You do.”

“It’s mutual though. You make it sound like—”

“No one said you were a bad guy—or even original in doing this. All I’m saying is that this isn’t going to work if you sabotage it in the only way you know how.”