Chapter 30

MY ROOM OR YOUR'S?

Audrey's POV

It felt really nice getting back together with Charles. Everyone fawned at us at the boutique and I was elated. I couldn't contain my excitement.

They all thought of us as a couple, an actual couple and I was happy about that.

Even though everything was temporary, even though I wasn't his real girlfriend, it still felt that way. Everyone thought that way.

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The silence in the car was unbearable. I couldn't take it anymore.

I tried to start a conversation with Charles, but he didn't seem interested in me or whatever I had to say. Why wasn't he sitting beside me? Why did he have to stay in the front seat and not with his girlfriend?

If my goal in his life was to act like his girlfriend, shouldn't we both play the part well?

How would people believe us if he doesn't put the same efforts I was putting into fooling everyone around us?

I could feel his driver mocking me for making a fool out of