Project Heartbreak
Was that really how I came across?
“But,” he said, and this time he did glance at me, his green eyes utterly serious, “Asher liking you back? That is not guaranteed. In fact, it’s statistically improbable. My job is to get you to the starting line looking like a semi-functional human being. What happens after the gun goes off is on you. And on him. And his very probable, very fundamental lack of interest in guys. Understood?”
It was the coldest, hardest dose of reality I’d ever received. He was stripping away every layer of my fantasy, leaving only the bleak, probable outcome. My chest ached with the truth of it.