Step 1: Log in. Step 2: connect with your old college love you haven’t seen in ages. Step 3: find out he’s married. Step 4: agree to meet for dinner. Step 5: hear that he’s bringing his wife along and realize that you’re single. Step 5: Cry help and ask a coworker to pretend to be your husband for one evening. Step 6: Find out it is not as easy as it sounds.
“Josh, can I ask you to be my husband?”
I looked up. You don’t hear a proposition like this every day from a coworker.
“Just for tonight,” clarified Darcy, having caught a glimpse of puzzlement in my stare.
I cleared my throat.
“Is that how it’s done these days? A husband for the night?”
“Shut up,” she said. “I need a handsome, smart guy to pretend he’s my husband for a few hours over dinner. Does that make things clear?”
