FAKE DATING WITH BENEFITS: MY BILLIONAIRE BOSS

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Your grandmother is turning eighty-seven

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at my drawer for a tissue. My

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, a crooked smile on his lips

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and sat, crossing one leg over the othe

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a low whistle. "Wha

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e?" He leaned forward

ablet from the desk. "Let's ta

staring at me with those eyes th

know why, bu

to go to her birthday party. And to make it worse, my ex and my cousin will probably be there. Newlyweds.

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ng because you have to face your ex and your ex-best frie

is my mom wants to set me up with her friend's son. Some la

ook his head. "Ten years and did

an eyebrow. "How many women have

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d have married her in the first one." He leaned in. "And third, my girlfriends are al

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escaped

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reality to crash b

. "People looking at me with pity. That's what's killing me. And this b

the window, and stared

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that's

ed to f

don't put in the

crossed my arms. "After ten years down the

. Figure it out. Don't let them drag your name through the mud,

ed for

Aren't we going to

dangerous smile on his lips. "In the meantime, think about

closed

y hand. The faint scent of his cologne-wood

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my mom's message with the conta

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