Chapter 47

"Are you okay?" Alejandro's soft question snapped her from her vacant stare out the car window.

"No. I'm now wondering if I should have said or done something different with Mitchell. But, I got so mad when instead of admitting he felt something for me, he pretended the whole asshole act was to protect me."

"It's not easy to admit you care about somebody."

A bitter laugh slipped from her. "So I'm noticing. I think I'm going to forget our plan to make him jealous. It's worked too well. The only problem is while he's jealous, he still doesn't want to do anything about it. Make that, he wants nothing to do with me."

"Mitchell's an idiot. So forget the dog. Let's make the act reality."

Puzzled, she turned to look at him. "What are you trying to say? You want to keep pretending we're a couple?"

"Not all of us were faking it," he said in a wry tone.

"I don't understand."