More Than Pen Pals

<h3><span style=color: rgba(153 51 255 1)>I deceived him for four years.</span></h3><p><br></p><p>Ash and I were childhood pen pals. He thought I was a boy and I never told him I wasn't. Since we lived in different states he'd never find out. Right? </p><p><br></p><p>Wrong. Well he didn't figure it out when we were kids but now we're sitting a few tables away from each other in a downtown Chicago restaurant and I'm about to be exposed as a fraud. </p><p><br></p><p>I know what you're thinking: <em>Just keep your mouth shut and he won't know who you are.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Wrong again. My lunch companion and co-worker Wendy knows him. Wait. Let me amend that. She's infatuated with him. Oh yes. My newest friend has a crush on the boy I betrayed. What are the odds? Infinitely low. That's what they are.</p><p><br></p><p>To top things off Ash's brother just saved me from choking to death. It's been an eventful lunch to say the least. And now Wendy is determined to stop by their table to thank him again and to flirt with Ash.</p><p><br></p><p>He's going to hate me right?</p><p><br></p><p>Please tell me I'm wrong.</p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 35 114 1)>More Than Pen Pals</em><span style=color: rgba(34 35 114 1)> is a friends-to-lovers Throwback RomCom set in the late 1980s. It reads like a contemporary romance with all the tropes closed-door chemistry and banter but the relationship evolves without the use of cell phones or the Internet. Dating was a whole different game in the 80s!</span></p>