Asher’s POV

“I don’t think it worked. If anything, I think I annoyed her—” I was pacing around in my bedroom, unable to forget the sadness and pain in those beautiful blue eyes when she saw us together. It hurt to pretend, even though all I wanted to do was pull her into a warm hug. “I think we messed it up, Kat. I don’t think it worked...”

“I told you it was a dumb idea in the first place,” she said with a sigh. “I shouldn’t have agreed to it.”

I clutched the phone tightly to my ear. “She looked hurt. I think we might have laid it on...