She Catfished Him With My Face, So This Time He Is Mine novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: The Rail

Brooke's heels stopped on the other side of the hull, six feet from my face.

"Surprise," she said.

I pressed my back against the cedar and kept my breathing small.

"Brooke." Miles's voice was warm and easy, the voice of a man who still believed her. "I thought you were at work."

"I took the afternoon. Look, I brought you the good sandwiches."

Paper crackled.

"Sit with me for one minute," she said. "I need to talk about Leah."

I heard him lower himself onto a sawhorse.

"She's not well," Brooke said, and her voice caught in the right place. "She's been doing this for a long time. She takes my pictures, my words, she moves them around until they're hers. I didn't want to tell you."

"You said the photos were yours."

"I said what she'd want me to say. Honey, she scares me a little. If she comes here, don't be alone with her."

I looked at my own hands.

My nails were short and square from the kitchen, and one of them was still dark where a hot pan had caught it in March.

"What did she do to scare you?" Miles asked.

"She wrote you for two years," Brooke said gently. "And now she's mad that you picked me."

It was good.

It was so good that if I hadn't been sitting there with a laptop full of dates, I would have stopped to wonder.

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