The One Month Boyfriend

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's a simple agreement: for one month Silas is my boyfriend of convenience.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Once this is over we'll go our separate ways. It's fake after all. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I need some arm candy to prove to my ex-fiancé that I've moved on.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He needs his old-fashioned boss to think he's ready to settle down.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perfect right? Except for one minor detail: we can't stand each other.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Silas thinks I'm a stuck-up ice queen. I think he's a cocky obnoxious jerk who's always trying to charm his way out of trouble - and succeeding. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He's the beloved golden boy. I'm the awkward new girl in town.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It would be the worst idea ever except... everyone falls for it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That's the thing about pretending to date someone: it looks just like real dating.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And the other thing about pretending to date someone? It </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>feels</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> like real dating.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The heated kisses in my office: fake.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The possessive way he touches me: fake.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The night we spend together in a hotel bed: ...maybe not so fake.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One month. Then this charade is over.</span></p>