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To: [email protected]

September 25, 2022

Subject: Re: Last night

I can’t believe Rose walked in on us.

I’m going to kill you.

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

October 1, 2022

Subject: Dinner

I’m picking up Chloe from choir practice,

and then we’ll pick up dinner from Lucia’s.

I’ll keep your food in the oven. Don’t work

too late.

Love you.

Fifty-Four

Cat

Only You by Harry Connick, Jr

As fall arrives, our days only get busier. While I haven’t actually been named editor in chief, I’ve somehow slipped into the role while also helping Jay with plans for the merger.

No matter how hard I try to work with Cash, though, he pushes me away. Since we started the fake dating ruse, I’ve gotten to know Grace and have realized how wrong I was about her.

She is genuinely kind, and she’s everything my brother deserves. I just wish I’d recognized it before I worked so hard to break them up.

My brother spends his days drinking and falling further and further into depression. Out of desperation to fix things, I brought Grace to his club. I really believed that if he saw her again, he’d realize how wrong he was.

Boy, did I misjudge that.

The night turned into a disaster. And now Grace won’t speak to me either.

“What’s the best band to listen to in autumn?” Jay asks as he walks into my office with his phone in his hand.

I smile, waiting for the punchline.

“The Spice Girls.” He grins and shimmies his hips as “Wannabe” plays through his phone.

I let out a loud laugh as he dances around my office, completely unconcerned about the growing number of people who have paused what they’re doing to stare at him.

“You’re insane,” I whisper as he continues to sing his way toward me. He drops a kiss on my lips before he goes right back to Sporty Spice’s line, planting one hand on his waist and cocking a hip.

He’s such a diva.

“Why do you look so stressed, Kitten?” Jay asks when he gets a good look at me. He turns off the music and crouches beside me, smoothing a thumb over my brow.