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Jack held Kelly as she slept. He felt the love in his heart for her grow stronger and bigger with each moment that passed. He saw their future together as he watched her sleep. A home, children, grandchildren – together. To come so close to losing her scared him to death.

The men all began to move while Kelly processed what he had said. They’re going to sell us. With that, she felt the bile rise in her throat and it took all her strength to choke it back down. Tears fell down her face freely now as the terror of what could lie ahead filled her thoughts, and she began to wonder if Jack would be able to find her in time.

It looks like someone grabbed her in the back alley. She probably didn’t have time to go for her panic alarm,” Chad continued. Jack felt as if he had been shot in the gut. He had just found Kelly. He couldn’t lose her now when he finally knew what it was like to live your life with someone else, for someone else, instead of being alone. He couldn’t imagine his world without her.

“No, this isn’t a game, Jack. This is my life, and you can’t just tell me you want to keep playing house and expect me to stay until you get tired of this – until you don’t want to play anymore. That’s not fair. I have to go back to a normal life after this. I have to get past this.” Her voice broke. “I have to get past you.”

After another frustrating night of lying next to Kelly in his bed, highly aroused but unable to reach for her, Jack began his mission to show her how beautiful he thought she was. He’d woo his wife into their marriage bed in the true sense of the word, if that’s what he needed to do.

He was struck by the irony of his fake life with Kelly. No woman had ever come close to inspiring the kind of feelings in Jack that his father and mother had shared. With Kelly, he found he really liked his fake life with her and wanted more of it. It was just his luck that the first time he was feeling anything more than base sexual attraction was with a woman he was paying to be his temporary wife.

Wherever Andrew had found her, he had done well. She was exquisite. Jack tore his eyes off her and skimmed the papers in his hand. The papers appeared to be an application for a marriage license for the State of Connecticut. There was a yellow sticky note on the top page that said: One year of marriage for $154,000. He quickly tucked the note in his pocket. Andrew had found him a wife for $154,000. What the hell?