Best Friend Bet I Couldn't Get Her Tough Sister to Say Yes Neither of Us Expected What Came Next

She asked what the envelope meant. Beckett started explaining, but I stopped him and told her everything. I told her about the bet, the two weeks, the first rejection, the fifty dollars. I told her that I had tried to end it before she agreed to the date. I told her the feelings afterward were real. Sloane listened until I finished. Then she asked the only question that mattered. When had I planned to tell her? I said tomorrow. She gave a tiny, devastated laugh. The safest word a coward ever invented. She put the pharmacy bag on the counter and walked out. I followed her into the driveway, but she turned around and told me not to. Her eyes were wet, yet her voice remained steady. She said the humiliating part wasn't that two idiots had made a bet. It was that she had told me exactly what happened with Grant. She had explained how painful it was discovering that everyone else knew something about her relationship that she didn't.