{"id":823,"date":"2021-04-25T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/?post_type=books&p=823"},"modified":"2024-03-06T21:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:30:14","slug":"not-pretending-anymore","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/books\/not-pretending-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Pretending Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

#1 Bestselling Kindle Book on All of Amazon!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding a good roommate through a classified ad isn\u2019t as easy as it sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was starting to lose hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until a knock at my door came and God answered my prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except\u2026uh\u2026wrong prayer, God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d definitely requested the big guy find me a drop-dead gorgeous man on more than one occasion…just not as my roommate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Declan Tate talked me into interviewing him anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While he was amusing and charismatic, I wouldn\u2019t have been comfortable living with a man, so I regretfully declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then cupcakes showed up at my door\u2014freshly baked by Declan and just as sinfully delicious as he was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could say he was persistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I eventually folded. It wasn\u2019t like I had another viable candidate anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, I was interested in someone else. And Declan was into another woman. So it wasn\u2019t like anything would happen romantically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After he moved in, the two of us became the best of friends. We even started to give each other advice on getting our crushes to notice us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, Declan concocted an idea: we should pretend to be a couple to make our love interests jealous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was hesitant, but went along with it anyway. To my utter shock, his crazy plan worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I was dating the supposed man of my dreams, and my best friend had the woman of his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there was one problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about Declan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those feelings we were trying to fake?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah\u2026I wasn\u2019t pretending anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":824,"template":"","format":[21,19,20,22],"meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"series":[26],"trope":[66,67],"writtenby":[17],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":26,"label":"Standalones"}],"trope":[{"value":66,"label":"Close Proximity"},{"value":67,"label":"Friends to Lovers"}],"format":[{"value":21,"label":"Ebook"},{"value":19,"label":"Audiobook"},{"value":20,"label":"Paperback"},{"value":22,"label":"Hardcover"}],"writtenby":[{"value":17,"label":"Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/172434364_2882260835350771_7639830949065976562_n-640x1024.jpeg",640,1024,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}