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ASPEN
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Luke’s cell rang. He reached down and grabbed it off the floor where he’d placed it earlier since he didn’t have a coffee table. He looked at the screen.
“It’s my mom.”
I was snuggled in his arms, but at those words, I made to sit up. His mom? “I’ll let you–”
“Stay,” he murmured and swiped the screen. “Hey, Momma.”
He didn’t just take a phone call, he took a video call because there, front and center on his screen, was a woman who looked an awful lot like Luke, just like she did in the photo he showed me earlier.
“What’s this I’m hearing about a girlfriend?” she asked.
I fought against his arm around me because the last thing I wanted to be as his fake girlfriend was to meet his mother. He let me up and I sat beside him, but not in range of being caught on the camera. Why? Because Luke held my hand, keeping me from going any further away.
“Lacey is not my girlfriend,” Luke said.
“Not Lacey,” a man’s voice said.
“Hey, Pops.”
“That woman’s the female version of a pond leech,” the man added.
I bit my lip because his dad was right, clinging to Luke and his fame for her own.
“I mean the woman on your social media.”
“Since when do you look at that?”
“We didn’t. Your sister called and said you met a woman in Montana.”
He glanced my way, smiled.
“Oh, she’s there, isn’t she?” his mom asked, sounding excited.
“She is.”
“Luke,” I whispered while shaking my head.
“So she’s real?”
Luke grinned at his mom. “Oh, she’s real. Come here, tiger. I want you to meet my parents.”
Meet his parents? Oh shit.
He pulled. I resisted.
“She’s shy,” Luke told them since I wouldn’t budge.
“Tell her we’re nice. We won’t bite. Although we will tell her the time you bit the dog.”
My mouth dropped open. He bit a dog?
Luke rolled his eyes. “I was three and Spud bit me first.”
“Spud?” I whispered.
