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"It worked? What worked?" Maria excitedly asked as he flashed his phone closer toward her face. It was a picture of her Jackson—just as he had predicted—when he wiped the ice cream off her lips. A series of other pictures followed, two embarrassing ones of her looking red and flustered, and others of their fake loving moments."Oh, look at you, aren't you cute?" He asked with his eyes still fixed on the screen like he asked it instead of her. This was the second time he was calling her cute and she was already beginning to find it less annoying."The bait worked, eh? You must be so proud of yourself." "Of course, do you know how easy it is to make these people fall into traps? They believe only what they see." He somehow sank deeper into the couch with the victorious smirk still plastered on his face. "You are trending on every social media right now, I am so famous." He bragged, just as expected.Maria rolled her eyes yet again, if she kept this up, her eyeballs might detach from
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"What? That's absurd. How could bring up having a wedding out of the blue?" She yeeted from underneath it, giving a reasonable amount of distance between them, to catch her breath and hope her blood-flushed face returned to its normal color. He chuckled, making fun of her action but deliberately ignoring her words. Jackson returned to his initial seat like his aim had been reached."Hello...lover boy?" She waved, almost slapping him across the face, "listen to me, okay? What do you mean by 'wedding' and 'tomorrow' in the same sentence?""You look as red as a tomato right now, are you sure you won't fall in love with me before our contract ends?" He teased, feigning ignorance to her questions. "You're so full of yourself," her eyebrows furrowed, "if I were to fall in love with anyone, it most definitely won't be you...cause you are not my type, okay?" She watched his brow raise in a question, "Don't- don't ask me what my type is 'cause I don't know yet...I'm just sure it couldn't
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