Page 107 of Keep Me
“We are besties.”
She pouted, thinking about it for a second. “Then why didn’t you tell me about marrying Matty?”
“Because, honestly, I thought I’d dreamed the entire thing, and I was told his ex was pregnant, so I figured our marriage wouldn’t matter.” I pushed out an amused breath. “If I’m really honest, since it was in Vegas, I didn’t think it was a legitimate wedding, anyway.”
“Whoa. That was a whole lot of a confession in a short sentence. His ex is pregnant? The girl with the ferret, right? She’s having a kid with him?”
“No. I don’t think so. She just said it was so I’d leave Matty alone, and it worked.”
Sienna’s mouth dropped, and she slapped me lightly on the shoulder before bringing her hand to her mouth. “Stop! She didn’t.”
I nodded. “That’s not the worst part. She told Matty she had cancer because she knew he wouldn’t believe the pregnancy lie.”
“No?!”
“Yeah, it was fucked up and ridiculous. She had no idea he was married to me while she was trying to convince himtheyshould get married to help pay for her health insurance.”
“But why was she pushing for that if she wasn’t sick?”
I shrugged. “Because she wanted his money. She mentioned something about Matty’s mom’s inheritance.”
“Matty’s that rich that she’d fake a pregnancy and illness over it?”
“Apparently.”
She shook her head and widened her eyes before blowing out a surprised breath. “Wow. When you said you didn’t want to talk about things before, I assumed it was because Matty was a shitty lay. I didn’t realize there was all this scandalous backstory behind it.”
“Yeah, well, welcome to my life,” I said, resigned to it.
“That does beg the question, though.” I looked at her with interest. “If you didn’t tell me, did you talk toanyoneabout this?”
I shook my head.
“Not even your mom?”
“She doesn’t know.” I pursed my lips, almost embarrassed about the statement. “I didn’t want to tell her.” Then I moved myhand, lifting the papers in her direction. “And I might not have to.”
“What’s that?” Sienna tilted her head, trying to read the papers, and gasped. “Are these divorce papers?”
I nodded. “Matty sent them over.”
Sienna took in a sharp breath. “What? Why? I thought he was obsessed with you?”
“He apparently is, and this is his way of proving it.”
Sienna’s brow furrowed. “You’ve lost me.”
“He’s just giving me the option in case I’m having second thoughts about being married to him.”
Sienna’s eyebrows lifted in surprise. “Are you having second thoughts?”
“I don’t think so. I love him, but it does feel strange to be courted by a man who has sent through divorce papers.”
“Can I?” I gave Sienna the papers, and her eyes flicked over the document with interest. “Whoa. This is insane. Also, why do I find it so funny that Matty’s name is actually Benedict? He sounds like some old-time prince.”
She knocked me on the side, trying to get me to smile, but I couldn’t. I wasn’t sure how I was feeling about it all. Numb, maybe? Nothing felt good, but nothing felt bad either. I just felt present. Like I was there and that was about it.
“Why do I feel like you’re going to sign these?”
