Hired to Make Him Fall
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At two in the morning his time, his voice came through low and worn, and I pressed my forehead against the balcony rail so my roommates wouldn't hear me smiling.
I survived by arithmetic back then. Tuition, the nursery and landscaping business my parents were losing, three jobs that still came up short. So when an heiress offered a quarter of a million dollars to be her online — her photos, her name, her silence about the rest — I said yes with my eyes open.
All I had to do was make Silas Ashford admit I was his girlfriend. He was twelve hours ahead, cold, unconvinced, and certain that any woman who wanted him wanted the money. Which was true. I was paid to want him.
Then he started calling just to hear my voice. He apologized first. He told a joke so unfunny that I laughed for a full minute, and that laugh was the first honest thing I had given him.
I was supposed to make him say four words. I was not supposed to mean them.
So what do I do when the man on the other end starts meaning them back — and the woman he's picturing isn't me?
I survived by arithmetic back then. Tuition, the nursery and landscaping business my parents were losing, three jobs that still came up short. So when an heiress offered a quarter of a million dollars to be her online — her photos, her name, her silence about the rest — I said yes with my eyes open.
All I had to do was make Silas Ashford admit I was his girlfriend. He was twelve hours ahead, cold, unconvinced, and certain that any woman who wanted him wanted the money. Which was true. I was paid to want him.
Then he started calling just to hear my voice. He apologized first. He told a joke so unfunny that I laughed for a full minute, and that laugh was the first honest thing I had given him.
I was supposed to make him say four words. I was not supposed to mean them.
So what do I do when the man on the other end starts meaning them back — and the woman he's picturing isn't me?
















































