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“Sorry sweetie, I’m at work and have a client coming in ten minutes.”
“Fantastic,” she grumbled. Getting an uber all the way out here and back to her place would cost a month’s rent.
“How the hell can he be married? Didn’t you ask?”
“Of course I asked. I’m not an idiot,” she snapped. “Sorry, you didn’t deserve that. I’m just…god. I don’t know what I am. Pissed off. Embarrassed.” She rubbed her hands across her face. Gross, why was she so sweaty? She glanced at her flushed face in the mirror. This day was just getting better and better. Now she was having like a hot flash or something. She flapped her arms to try to cool herself down. “Rayne, I’ve got to get out of here,” she whispered as the panic roared in her chest again.
“Just breathe, it’ll be fine.”
“It’s not going to be fine. The jerk told his wife I was Ryan Graves’ date.”
“Is he cute?”
“Are you freakin’ kidding me right now? “
“What? I’m just asking. I mean, clearly you can’t date Simon now, and it’s been a hot minute since you got laid. So…”
“Not helpful, Rayne. Like at all.”
“Okay, so maybe your new date could give you a ride or something?”
“Yeah, sure, the guy who glared at me like he hated me on sight is going to give me a ride.”
“Seriously, he glared at you?” Rayne asked.
“Yep, but totally makes sense now since he thought I was the other woman.” She groaned. “Which I totally am.” Tears welled up in her eyes and she looked up at the ceiling. “God, Rayne, help me. What am I supposed to do? I can’t keep hiding in the bathroom forever. People will start to think it’s weird.”
No sooner had the words left her mouth than there was a knock on the door, followed by a deep male voice. “You okay in there?”
“Crap, Rayne,” she whispered. “Umm yep, fine, be out in a second,” she called to the stranger at the door. Could this day get any worse? “I gotta go,” she whispered to Rayne.
“Call me when you get home,” Rayne said.
Peyton hung up the phone and glanced at herself in the mirror. Perfect, she looked like a hot mess. She splashed some cold water on her face and looked at herself again. Awesome that made it worse. Now her face was all blotchy.Oh god, kill me now.
Taking a deep breath, she grabbed the doorknob and pulled the door open. Of course, it had to be him. Icy-glare Graves.
“It’s all yours,” she said as she tried to step by him.
“You okay?” he asked.
“Not really.” Laughter drifted up from downstairs. There was no way she was going back down there. “Do you know the address so I can get an uber?”
He smirked at her. “Didn’t sign on for meeting the wife today, hey?”
“Didn’t know there was a wife.”
“Yeah right,” he scoffed.
Peyton’s shoulders tensed. Who the heck did this guy think he was judging her like this? “Obviously I didn’t, or I wouldn’t be here.”
“Come on now, that’s not entirely true. There are at least two women in the pool out back that are dating guys they know are married, because they are fake dating other guys on the team. I just have no intention of being one of those guys.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“Nope.” He looked her up and down and shook his head. “So what? You didn’t google Andy before you started dating?”
“No, why would I?”
