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“No one’s breaking up.”
“Speak for yourself, Busted Hand Boy.”
Ryan rolled his eyes. “She only has two modes, unconscious and manic. Ignore her.”
Juliet propped her hands on her hips. “I’m standing right here.”
“Could you stand over there instead? You’re making the kid nervous.”
Chloe held up her hand. “All right. I appreciate the whole banter thing you two have going, but you need to tell me where my husband is right now.”
“See, the thing is, he’s not your husband.”
Before Chloe could open her mouth to give Juliet the verbal beatdown she needed, the woman flipped her long dark hair over her shoulder.
“But I have an idea about how we can change all that.”
Chapter 31
“This is a bad idea. In fact, I don’t want to do this at all.”
Molly and Juliet tag teamed her on the side stage at the Spectrum Awards. “We’ve gone over this. You want Michael back, right?”
“Of course I want him back.”
“Then, this is how it needs to happen.” Molly nodded as if it was all decided.
It so wasn’t.
In fact, she was pretty sure she was going to hurl all over her borrowed shoes.
Chloe swallowed down the spit that was trying to flood her mouth. “I don’t go on stage. That crap is all you guys. I’m perfectly happy—deliriously so—to stay on the sidelines.”
“Look, Michael is a good guy.”
“I know he’s a good—”
“Just listen,” Molly interrupted. She curled her fingers over Chloe’s shoulders. “I’m giving up accepting an award on national television because I believe in you two. So you’re going to walk on that stage and you’re going to tell the world that you love him.”
“Can’t I just hold a sign above your heads while you’re doing your speeches?”
“No,” they both shouted.
Chloe’s shoulders sagged. She nibbled the side of her thumbnail as one award after another was accepted. She’d rather hunt Michael down than do this.
Molly started bouncing. “Okay, we gotta go do the thing.”
Chloe was pretty sure even her freckles went pale.
“Sing. We’re going to sing, Chloe. You need to breathe or we’re going to end up scraping you up off the floor. And seriously, you don’t want to think about what’s on this floor.”
Yeah, that wasn’t helping at all.
“Don’t even think about escaping.”
Chloe turned to Lila. “Oh, awesome.”
Lila folded her arms. “I’m just here to make sure you don’t flee into the night like your…well, like Michael.”
