Chapter 30. You?

"Rosalind had come to be like a friend, anyway, so I am not totally lying," she thought in a bid to appease her guilty conscience.

She got out the peach-colored dress she got especially for the occasion—the Big Reveal, as she had dubbed it. Rosalind had run her through the gamut of tests. At first, it had been awkward between them as Marissa was so self-conscious and uncomfortable because of how they met and what their transaction entailed, but Rosalind had put her at ease after reassuring her that what she was doing was nothing to be ashamed about. "This is just a case of two adults doing what works for them, '' she had said the day they went for her staphylococcus test.

After that, the tension had eased, and they had become friends. Marissa had informed Rosalind of her grandmother's belief that they were friends, and Rosalind had jumped into the role so effortlessly that Marissa had been amazed.

"Anything to make the deal work out perfectly," she had said when Mar