Too Pretty to Be Your Backup novel Chapter 38

Chapter 38

Chapter 38

As Amanda walked out of AE, her phone buzzed–Cindy was calling. She picked up.

“Cindy.”

“So, you went to AE?”

Amanda blinked, caught off guard. “How did you even know?” She hadn’t been inside more than fifteen minutes. How did word get out so fast?

Cindy let out a little laugh, half–amused, half–exasperated. “Come on, Amanda. You and Travis are the favorite gossip meal in town, especially after that train wreck of an engagement party. Everyone’s watching you two like hawks. The second you and Travis walked into AE together, someone snapped a photo. It’s already all over the group chats.”

What Cindy didn’t mention was that everyone had turned Amanda and Travis into a running bet.

First, they’d wagered on how long it would take for Amanda to come crawling back after Travis called off the engagement. When that didn’t happen, they scrapped it and started a new one: would Amanda and Travis give the engagement another shot within six months?

So when the two of them showed up at AE together looking all cozy, the London elite lost their minds. Everyone knew Travis had once banned Amanda from his company. Now she was back, and he was the one who’d brought her in after calling everything off. Suddenly, everyone was betting that the engagement was back on.

Amanda didn’t need Cindy to spell it out. Of course they were betting on her again. This wasn’t new.

It used to get to her–how nobody believed in her and Travis, how everyone assumed they were doomed. Back then, she’d been desperate to prove them wrong, to show everyone that she and Travis could be happy.

However, after seven years of disappointments, she’d learned the hard way: when everyone’s against you, stubbornness only gets you so far.

Amanda laughed. “So, what did you bet?”

Cindy groaned, banging her fist on the table. “I wanted to bet three days. But Travis is acting crazy, keeping you on lockdown.”

Still, she could tell Amanda really want out this time.

Cindy hesitated, then asked, “What’s going on with him? Don’t tell me he actually has feelings for you

now.”

Amanda smiled, a little bitter. “I used to think he loved me. Not anymore. Travis is all about responsibility. I took that knife for him–after that, he felt he owed me. But don’t worry, I know him too well. He’s way too proud to be desperate for long. All I have to do is freeze him out, and he’ll get bored. Eventually, he’ll just offer me money to leave.”

Because Travis doesn’t really do feelings. His business is all he cares about. He doesn’t have time to comfort her or play the perfect boyfriend. Right now, he’s just feeling guilty. But once he gets tired of Amanda shutting him out, he’ll lose patience. Leaving will be easy then. She knew the drill.

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