Calculated Lies

Synopsis

In college, I made a bet with my arch-rival. The stakes? To see if I could seduce the cold-faced genius of the Bio-Engineering department. Armed with stack after stack of academic journals, I baited him for three long years and three months. Once I got bored, I ghosted him. I walked away without a single word. Seven years later, at our class reunion. My rival walks in, hand-in-hand with the genius ex-boyfriend I once dumped. "Layla Foster, I should really thank you for letting Alex Reed go back then." I flash a defiant smile. "You're welcome. Feel free to pick up any man I've deemed not good enough for me." But after I turn to leave, my phone pings. It's a message from a chat window that has been dark for years. "Layla Foster, then what kind of man is to your liking?" "I can play the part."