I Was Only Your Decoy Girlfriend
Language: en
To save up enough for a down payment on a house we could call our own, I skimped on everything—even the copays for my pain medication. I hoarded my medical issues like overdue bills, waiting until I could pack five different surgical procedures into a single five-day hospital stay to maximize my insurance deductible. For a brief moment, I was a local legend in the surgical ward. But that was also the day I saw Griffith, my supposedly broke boyfriend, deep in conversation in the hospital’s restricted VIP wing. My feet moved on their own, drawing me stealthily behind them. They were…