The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
He nodded, and a terrifying thought occurred to her. “Whatif he feels obliged to take me on because I’m your fakegirlfriend?”“Tom won’t. He once fired his cousin for breaking a flowcytometer. He’s not exactly tenderhearted.”Takes one to know one, she thought. “Listen, I’m sorry thisis forcing you to lie to your friend. If you want to tell him thatthis is fake . . .”Adam shook his head. “If I did, I’d never live it down.”She let out a laugh. “Yeah, I can see that. And honestly itwouldn’t reflect well on me, either.”“But, Olive, if you do end up deciding that you want to goto Harvard, I’ll need you to keep it a secret until the end ofSeptember.”She gasped, realizing the implications of his words. “Ofcourse. If people know that I’m leaving, the department chairwill never believe that you’re not leaving, too. I hadn’t eventhought of it. I promise I won’t tell anyone! Well, except forMalcolm and Anh, but they’re great at keeping secrets, they’dnever—”His eyebrow rose. Olive winced.“I will make them keep this secret. I swear.”“I appreciate it.”She noticed that Tom was on his way back to the table andleaned closer to Adam to quickly whisper, “One more thing.The talk he mentioned, the one he’s giving tomorrow?”“The one you ‘can’t wait’ for?”Olive bit the inside of her cheek. “Yes. When and where isit going to be?”
Adam laughed silently just as Tom sat down again. “Don’tworry. I’ll email you the details.”
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Adam laughed silently just as Tom sat down again. “Don’t
worry. I’ll email you the details.”
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