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“Thank you for that,” she said, her tone just as lighthearted as his. “Well, so okay. If you agree to my terms then I think…why not? Let’s go forward with your plan.”
“You never answered me before. Did you honestly think me continuing to have sex with you was going to be a problem?”
“Maybe. You told me before how you feel about casual sex.”
“What I actually said was I think the best sex happens in a committed relationship. And in a way, while we’re pretending to be engaged, we will be committed to each other. Like you said, for however long it lasts, there won’t be anyone else for us. That’s not negotiable.”
“Good thing I don’t want anyone else.”
For now, he thought. “Then we’re agreed. We’re committed to you getting Milly. To enjoying each other for the length of this engagement.”
“Well, I guess all that’s left to say is…thank you. For helping me, Jamie. I really appreciate it.”
“You’re welcome, Luce. When do you meet with the lawyer?”
“Later today. Wish me luck.”
“I can do one better than that. I can come with you.”
“You’d do that? Aren’t you busy? With the new job? Your sister’s wedding?”
“Honestly, yes, but I’ll make time for you. I always will when it means something to you, Luce.”
He heard her swallow before she said, “Thank you, but I can handle this on my own.”
“Okay. I’ll be thinking of you the whole time. Let me know how it goes.”
“I will. Before we hang up…have you thought about how we’re going to announce this engagement?”
“What about starting with social media?”
“You want us to what…tweet about it?”
“I thought I could leak it on Twitter, and maybe you could post something about it on Facebook. Hopefully the press would pick it up pretty quickly from there, and then…wa-la!”
“Okay,” she agreed. “But Jamie, I’m not lying to my close friends.”
“I’d prefer not to as well. I won’t tell my family, but I’d like to at least tell Gabe and Cole. Maybe even the others.”
“That’s fine. I’ll tell Grace and Melina. I trust them all with my life. They know all my secrets.”
“Good to know. If I ever need to know something about you, I can just torture it out of one of them.”
Lucy laughed. “You can try, but they’ll never talk.”
“You sure about that? I’m a very persuasive man, Luce.”
* * *
Lucy couldn’t possibly deny how persuasive Jamie was. Look what he’d talked her into—faking an engagement so she could convince others she was proper maternal material. But she’d agreed to his proposition and now it was time to jump in the only way she knew how—full throttle.
Lucy hung up the phone and went to her computer. She signed on to Facebook, and then she sat staring at the status update box for ten minutes before she finally typed, Guess who got engaged?
Then she snapped a photo of her gorgeous antique engagement ring and attached it. Before she pressed the post button she sent a text on her phone to Grace and Melina that said, “What you read on Facebook is not true. I will explain later, but in the meantime, please go along with it if anyone asks you.”
Then she pressed post and waited… For the next twenty minutes, she got message after message asking for more information. Social media could be a blessing or a curse. She wasn’t sure which one this was going to be.
She finally typed in: Engaged to Jamie Whitcomb…So happy!
