His Fake Fiancee
"
I shake my head, not willing to accept the truth. I'm mentally preparing
myself to eradicate him from life, to build up titanium walls around my heart like I did after my father left.
And it's now that I realize I didn't do that with Sterling. I may have moped around for a few days, sure, but there was never a gaping hole the size of a crater dragging down my heart, threatening to make me never care about anything or anyone ever again.
Because I didn't love—
"I can't go back." My eyes burn, unable to accept the truth. "It was all a lie, even more so than I thought."
"And how confident are you?"
Hesitating, my mind races to come up with a valid excuse why Harrison Thornton—who knew of our f