Gorgeous Lies

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Dear J</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>They were the shade of midnight blue.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The last place I expected to see my old college love Jude Harding was in the local laundromat four years after I fled the city to escape him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heir to Boston Royalty.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rich beyond comprehension.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And a mouth I couldn't help but fall for.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jude was everything I'd always wanted and more... until life viciously and unexpectedly tore us apart.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So when he catches me arguing with a washing machine for mercilessly eating my quarters I can't escape quickly enough.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unfortunately for me Jude isn't going anywhere anytime soon and before I realize what's happening he's the man hired to renovate my new business.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The same man I've been desperate to get over for years yet can't despite my efforts.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But business is business after all and we have to work together and not allow our troubled past get in the way. All I have to do is remember the pain I felt when he chose pleasing his father over a forever with me all those years ago because if I don't everything I've risked to rebuild my life will come undone.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I don't trust myself around Jude. I never will.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because the truth is I've always loved him and I always will...despite every gorgeous lie he ever told.</span></p>