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“Especially fake ones,” he said.
“All right, I can do that. You’re completely caught up on who knows.”
“Good,” he said. “Now, let’s go talk to Sally. I’m pretty sure the entire office signed a card and tried to hide it from me.”
“It doesn’t seem like they did a good job.”
“They never do.”
It took far longerto talk to everyone than I thought it would. Sally did have a very sweet card loaded with gift cards to local restaurants. She was so happy for us and showed us all the photos she took while I was walking down the aisle. After that, we caught up with Lily and Sebastian, where we all talked about how to take down everything.
I expected it to be just the four of us after people filtered out of the house, but Isra and Nancy insisted on staying to help put the leftover food up while we cleaned up all the decorations outside.
“I should probably go make sure they aren’t going through your house,” Levi said after a few minutes. “I love them, but I don’t trust them alone together.”
“We can finish up out here,” I said. “Don’t worry about it.”
He nodded and started to walk away, but then turned. “Before I go, I need to ask the two of you, how did we do?”
“Do?” Lily asked.
“With faking a wedding.”
“You know that we know?” Lily asked.
“I had to get it out of her, but yes. I do. I knew some people did. She told me she needed her friend’s seal of approval.”
“And we’re the experts on fake marriage,” Lily said.
“Wait, what?” Levi looked between them.
“Wow, we’re really going there?” I asked Lily.
“Oh, did Levi not know?”
“Why would I tell the CEO of the company I work for that our parents sold us off together?” Sebastian asked. “It didn’t come up!”
“Now I need to know,” Levi said.
“It was dramatic,” I told him. “When I met them, they basically hated each other.”
“To be fair, I thought he was cheating.”
“I wasn’t!” Sebastian said. “It was a misunderstanding that went on far too long.”
“You’re lucky Sally isn’t still here,” Levi replied. “She’d love to hear this.”
“I’d rather the office not know how much of an idiot I was in the past,” Sebastian said with a sigh. “But if you want, I can give you the whole story sometime. As long as you keep it between us.”
“I can keep secrets, and I definitely want the whole story,” Levi replied. “But speaking of things I have to do, I should really check up on Isra. Who knows what she and Mom are doing.”
“Have fun with that,” I said, waving him off.
Lily waited until Levi was inside before turning to me.
“That went well,” she said. “You sold itsowell. Even Riley thought so. You’re a good actor.”
“Y-yeah,” I said. “That wasdefinitelyall acting.”