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"Of wine" He nodded "Then I’ you off, because this"--he kissed , and I want you to feel me when I kiss you, when I fill you That a probleain "Now do so " Reid pointed with his coffee I huffed and took a look in theto puff up byfor you" He turned to walk out of the bathroom

"Hey, Reid?"

"Yeah?"

"It’s not pretend anymoreis it?"

"It hasn’t been pretend for a while, Jordan"

"But" I gulped "The ed "This is about us"

"I trust you" I sedthe distraction It burned all the way down my throat as I choked out, "I trust this"

"Good" He nodded "Jordan, I would never hurt you"

With that he walked off and I was left praying what he said was true Because I wasn’t so sure I would recover from the type of heartbreak Reid Emory would leave uy you co up

There was no getting better

Only worse

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

JORDAN

I had scheduled two appearances Saturday, both of which would have people speculating about a possible wedding

Granted, eren’t going to take it as far as to leak a picture of us at a chapel, but I figured if people saw us shopping together, they’d get the idea It helped that the few places we visited were all draped in wedding paraphernalia It didn’t take a genius to put two and two together, which hat I was hoping for We could dupe everyone by siht tiht was even supposed to resemble a rehearsal dinner It was a private party at the Border Grill, which ended up being more like a loud fiesta where Max made Reid wear a sombrero

Every time Reid tried to take it off, Max shouted, "Ohana!" Somehow the word had developed new definitions and it now just oes

I tried to choke down ht with Reid that I couldn’t even focus on the fact that his Twitter following had ht out when he’d serenaded me at the restaurant back in New York

Ren sentthat Reid’s team had been so pleased with his PR that they had a fewour way