“You've got to be kidding me...”
Rolling his eyes he scoffed “just say yes. I know you need the money.”
He wasn't wrong there, but I had a feeling I was going to regret this.

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Deidra wanted to have a normal college experience just like everyone else, but the last thing she had anticipated was her fourth grade bully to come running back into her life asking her for help. Inheritance clauses, last-minute wills, and a free ticket for her undergrad years to be paid in full?
What more was there to say, except that Wes wasn’t someone easy to work with.
He was more likely going to be more trouble than the money is worth.

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It Had to Be You

“You don’t have to make a decision right now,” Wes had said, “but when you’re ready to give me your answer, text me.”


He said it all so casually, like marriage wasn’t a big deal. Like people did it every day.


“Let’s get married,” I said on my bed, Lancelot resting on my stomach as I fed him some mustard greens. “Do you believe this guy? Him—the asshole who stuck gum to the bottom of my pants on picture day—that guy. Do you believe it?”


Lancelot blinked slowly, which I think was the only valid response to this whole shebang. God if that wasn’t a mood…


My phone rang, a lot of 8-bit, so I knew it was Gemma before I even lifted the phone. “Yerler?”


“Yerhey!” Gemma chirped, an old joke falling between us that cut the blah feeling that had settled over me since last night in half. Wherever she was it was loud, the exact opposite of the family farm’s many wind chimes.


Chapter 26 : Bad Women & Bad Ideas