Chapter 4I Hired a Boyfriend
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I opened my chat with Liam. The last messages were from a month ago. I hesitated, then started typing.
【Liam, guess what today is!】
No reply. I sent another.
【If you can't guess, you owe me a kiss.】
An hour passed.
【Okay, fine, I know you’re just pretending not to know so you can get that kiss.】
【It’s World Oceans Day! We should get dinner to celebrate!】
【Where are you? I’ll come find you :)】
A knot of frustration tightened in my stomach. I was making it so obvious I wanted to make up. Why was he ignoring me?
I ate dinner with my right hand, my left endlessly scrolling up through our old conversation, waiting for his name to pop up with a new message. The Wi-Fi in the dining hall was spotty, and I was terrified I’d miss his reply because of a delay.
I stretched a single meal out for over an hour.
He never wrote back.