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I’m scared he won’t drop the earlier matter.
“You think they’ll like me?” He looks up, still clenching his jaw but trying not to push.
They’ll love you. “Once they get to know you,” I nod. “Rosa’s easy to please. She’ll appear tough in the beginning, say stuff about me being her baby sister and possibly threaten to castrate you if you make me cry, but she’ll open up. Nadine’s harder. She’s careful with people around me, has never liked my friends—except Sunny—and often talks me out of relationships because she thinks the only relationship a girl my age should be in is with her career. I know she’ll like you eventually, but it might take time.”
“I’m not one to back away,” Dean sternly says. “Your sisters are a big part of who you are,my love. Impressing them means a lot to you, which is why it means a lot to me. If I have to spend days with them, follow them around like a dog, then I will. Because there is no end to this, Nova. I spent too long imagining a life with you. No matter how long it takes, I’ll make sure they end up liking me so you don’t spend forever hoping that they would.”
My lip wobbles. What author spawned this man? He doesn’t exist. I’m certain the page will turn, and he’ll disappear.
No one in the twenty-four years that I’ve been alive has recognizedhow important my sisters are to me. People assume they understand the depth of my love for them, but they don’t. It’s never been all white and black. It hasn’t been shades. It’s been cracks and rocks, it’s been mountains of hiking then falling back flat into water. Sisterly love is an enigma to everyone but sisters. It doesn’t exist and it doesn’t die. Yet, Dean takes what I can’t say and tears it apart to understand.
Dean Vuk makes it easy tolovehim.
I’m not surprised at the admission. I love Dean. Whoever he is, whoever he was. All of him. He exists in the empty corners of my skin and eases himself into the gaps of my chest. There’s no part of me that doesn’t have a part of him.
“You know exactly what to say,” I trace his tattoos with a finger. “I’ve been thinking about our first date out of here.”
“And what’s that?” He leans back on his hands, amused.
“Woodworking,” I say.
“Really?”
I nod. “We’ve been doing what I love here. I want to do what you love too.”
“You’d want that?” His tone deepens with awe.
“I want everything with you, Dean.” I say solemnly. Then joke, “Even if I have to teach you how to hammer in a nail or something.” Woodworking doesn’t need hammers. But Dean doesn’t correct me, he sits up, leaning closer to my face. “I know exactly how to hammerin.”
My cheeks burn at the innuendo like he didn’t spend all night showing me exactly how much heknows. Who cares if he was celibate for years, I can’t sit properly.
Dean pecks my nose, “Sounds like a date.”
Just then, a phone buzzes with a notification.
“It’s yours,” he leans back. “My phone's dead.”
As I move to check my phone, Dean gets up to change into clothes. I suck in the whine trickling up my throat.
A post on Headshot fromTattletales—the most viewed page for celebrity gossip—lights my screen.
Reality TV has taken a hit from the previous years we’ve been watching it. Season Three of Irene Dolores’Love? Check!The world’s favourite dating show recently shed light on the contestants and their true intentions. Some come for love and others? They come for the money.
The show’s main premise is to get strangers to complete each other’s bucket list items and hopefully find love with one another. From an inside source, we found out that Dean Vuk (32) and Nova Rivera (24) have known each other from before. Both are globally, the most loved contestants. But will they still be when you find out the two have been conspiring to win half-a-million dollars for longer than we think?
The second slide is from 2019, Dean Vuk’s criminal trial. No one knows what went down, but we’ve circled in red a young girl sitting in the jury. Yes, that’s right. It’s Nova Rivera. What are the odds of them reuniting all these years later? Unlikely. We’ve included pictures and videos of the two working to trick viewers into thinking they’re in love and win popularity votes.
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Scandals are normal. I’m not worried about that. I know myself and Dean.
But I’m stuck on the part where I was on the jury for his trial.
There’s one video of us at the secret hideout. Night sky. Me andhim standing near each other. But the video is cut. Words are erased. It’s made to seem like we came out to talk about what we’re going to do next instead of how that was the first moment Dean didn’t feel like my boss, but as someone I could trust.
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