Best fake fiancé: a single dad romance - roxie noir

I told a judge I was engaged to my best friend.

Now were faking it.

How hard can it be? My life has room for exactly two women: my daughter Rusty and my best friend Charlotte - known to everyone as Charlie.

One is a feisty, tomboyish firecracker.

The other is my seven-year-old.

I cant imagine life without either.

So when my ex springs a custody hearing on me, I find myself telling the judge that Im engaged to Charlie.

The only problem? Im not.

Time to fake an engagement.

Pretending were a couple will be no big deal.

Weve been friends for years.

We used to sneak cigarettes behind the bleachers.

We turned cans of hairspray into flamethrowers.

We got drunk on stolen malt liquor.

Shes beautiful, vivacious, spontaneous, and she loves my daughter to death.

Its the perfect answer: we fake it for a few months, then go back to our lives.

Until we touch, and sparks fly.

Until I cant take my eyes off her.

Until I cant stop thinking about what shes got on under her coveralls.

It takes one kiss.

One touch.

One shared secret and suddenly, Im not pretending anymore.

I want her, I need her in ways I didnt know I could.

But theres a lifetime of friendship between us, and falling in love with Charlie could mean risking everything.