Phantom Hope

He’s a famous person—a musician and a singer. There’s a lot of noise and gossip around him. And the loudest thing of all is the accusation of an unconventional sexual orientation—which is wrong.

And me? I’m his childhood friend, who became for him a kind of lifeboat—something he grabbed onto with a deadly grip.

The offer to pretend to be his girlfriend for the press changes my life completely.

So why did I say “yes” in the first place?