Three Years As Her Stand-In

Midnight. My phone buzzed with a text and an attached photo from my best friend.

"Chloe, didn't know you and your man were into this kind of thing. A brand-new themed love hotel downtown? Wild."

I stared at the screen, my entire body freezing up.

In the photo, a girl was clinging tightly to Ethan's arm.

They were walking out of the hotel lobby, wrapped up in each other, completely lost in their own world.

Except that night, I was stuck at the office working overtime.

At one in the morning, I was still in the conference room revising project proposals.