Don't Leave Town

A fake boyfriend for the wedding…
Could it ever possibly become the real thing?

XAVI
I know what everyone thinks of me.
I’m stupid, mean, and I couldn’t get a man to stay with me for longer than a night if I paid him. Well, joke’s on them, because that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
I’m paying my hot, gay coworker to come to the wedding and pretend to be my boyfriend, so they all stop laughing at me once and for all.
But when we actually get there, I realize my mistake pretty quickly. Rowe is just too perfect. He’s making me look bad. Worse than that – he’s reminding me that I am bad.
Worst of all is how he makes me not want to be bad anymore – because I’m not sure I know how to be good.
And when I learn that he’s leaving town at the end of the month, my stomach hits the floor.
I know I need him.
I know he could make me a better man.
I just don’t know how I’m going to convince him to stay.

ROWE
I have so much on my plate. My medical bills. My sister’s medical bills. The extra jobs I’m working at all hours to pay for them.
And Xavi Mendez, the cute but completely infuriating coworker I keep having to save from getting fired.
His proposition sounds like the answer to my prayers: two thousand dollars, tax-free and cash-in-hand, all mine if I just pretend to be his boyfriend for two days. A kiss here and there to sell the illusion won’t hurt for that amount of money. Somehow, it’s fitting that I have to bail him out of trouble one more time.
The only problem is, each time we kiss, I’m starting to be less and less convinced that it’s an illusion at all.
But it has to be an illusion, because I can’t afford to live in this town anymore. At the end of the month, I’m leaving – so I can’t get involved.
Not with anyone.
Not even with a man who sits at my feet begging to be loved, letting me take charge… and somehow, despite all the odds, tugging at the strings of my heart.