Add Me Maybe

By Brooke Hartwell

Deal Ends: Fri 9th October

risk_adjusted: She added me on Venmo. Is she into me?Top comment: Bro. She was just paying you back.risk_adjusted: She did not need to add me to pay me back.That post is about me.The night I sprain my ankle, my boyfriend is busy driving another woman across town. The man who shows up instead is Theodore Radcliffe: donor-wall name, heir-to-everything rumors, a face that makes every conversation look like an unnecessary expense. He gets me home, buys the medicine I said I didn't need, and refuses my $47.60.Three times. Reason: Amount inaccurate.Now he's asking the internet whether I want him. Under the same username as his Venmo. Apparently anonymity fell outside the risk model. I should tell him. Instead, I open a burner account. If Theodore Radcliffe is going to crowdsource my feelings, somebody should at least give him competent advice.Then he starts taking my advice. On me.I'm done being anyone's second choice, and Theo looks at me like first place was never open. Which would be easier to believe if the woman he wants, the stranger coaching him, and the idiot falling for him weren't all the same person.Paying him back is easy.Wanting him to stay is the real risk.ADD ME MAYBE is a witty, high-heat romantic comedy: anonymous online flirting, a deadpan hero who falls first and files it under risk, a heroine done with second place, and one $47.60 that refuses to stay settled. Standalone. Guaranteed HEA. Open-door heat.