Page 144 of The Fake Date Agreement

I tear the sheets off my bed.

No book.

I drop to my knees and peer under my bed.

I make a mental note to vacuum under it soon, but no book.

The last one who was in here was who?

“Think, think, think…”

Javier.

Maybe.

Reid was in my room, but I can’t see him taking it. Or, I guess, if he did take it, he would absolutely not be keeping quiet about what was in those pages.

Caleb…

Nope. Don’t see him grabbing a smutty book.

But Javier…

He was flipping through the book last time, so maybe he saw the pink tabs and curiosity drove him to take it when he had all those flowers delivered.

I still have three large bouquets of white, pink, and red roses sitting in vases on my desk and a bookcase, and every time I see or smell their subtle scent, I grin like an idiot.

And it isn’t just the flowers that make me smile like an idiot.

It’s my fake boyfriends who are making me happier than Marc ever did.

Dad called earlier, and even he asked why I was in such a good mood.

“Just happy, Dad,” I said and swiftly changed the subject because Istillhaven’t told him that Marc and I broke up.

But now that I know my book is missing, I need to find it before this party, or I’ll spend the entirety trying to figure out which one of them has it and why they would take it.

I rush over to Max’s room, knock twice, and bounce from foot to foot as I wait for her to call out, “Come in.”

I rush in. “Please tell me you were in my room, and you borrowed my book.”

Max is stretched on a hot pink yoga mat on the floor, windows wide open to let air in, and her laptop is sitting on her bed. “Nope. Why?”

Occasionally, I would join her, and we’d do a yoga workout together. Since she sticks with it regularly, and I flake out on my workouts, she can do twists and stretches that would snap me in half.

I shut her door and lean against it. “I can’t find it,” I whisper.

A smile stretches across her face. “Maybe you should ask Javier if?—”

“I’m not asking him anything,” I hiss.

“Reid?”

I shake my head. “No.”

“Caleb?”

“He has no reason to take it.”

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