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“Well, you’ll never be without me. And I’d be the one who’d be lost. It’s been the best year of my life professionally, and I felt really—off. I didn’t like you being gone. I mean, don’t get me wrong. I’m proud as hell of you, but I missed you like crazy, Miney.”
She smiled. The first real smile I’d seen since I arrived.
“That’s because we’re peas and carrots, right?” she teased. It’s what our mothers had always said since we were young.
And damn, had they been right.
Because this girl had always completed me in a way I’d never understood.
“Damn straight. Eat up. No more of this pouting shit. Starting today, you hold your head high. No more grieving over a dude who doesn’t deserve your time or your tears.”
She sighed as she reached for her burger. “Easier said than done. This is one area that you don’t understand because you don’t want the same things as me. You don’t want marriage and kids. And I found the person I thought I’d do all those things with, and it hurts like hell to think of him with someone else.”
“I never said I don’t want to get married and have kids. Hell, I love kids. I just never met anyone I wanted to keep going out with. But who knows? It could happen. The difference between you and me is that I don’t worry about shit like that. If it’s supposed to happen, then I’ll get knocked on my ass. You’re trying to force it.”
She shook her head. “I’m hardly trying to force it. I said yes to marrying him. But I changed the plan and left. That wasn’t fair to him. So, I’m trying to fix what I broke.”
I shrugged. We could agree to disagree. That shit was already broken; she just didn’t want to see it.
We spent the next few hours catching up after we headed back to her place. Reese showed me her portfolio of the projects she’d been working on, and I was in awe of her. She had an eye for design, always had.
My phone continued to blow up with texts, as apparently, the driver’s post had gone fucking viral.
Angelique was thrilled.
It was the first time in several months that the attention I was receiving wasn’t about Jessica Carson.
The problem was that everyone thought I had a girlfriend now.
And it wouldn’t take any sort of detective skills to realize that my best friend was the girl who lived in London.
But at the moment, I didn’t give a shit.
I was just enjoying my time with her.
That’s the way it had always been with us.
four
Reese
“Oh my God, Chewy!”I squealed.
“Stop shouting. I’m dreaming,” he groaned, wrapping his arm around me a little tighter.
“Yeah. I’m aware. You’ve got yourself a littlemorning situation.” My voice was still groggy after sleeping through the night for the first time in days. “And Chewy Junior is poking me in the butt.”
I glanced over my shoulder to see him open one eye as he took me in. His chest was pressed against my backside, which meant his raging boner was pressed against my ass. We’d fallen asleep tucked into my small bed, and we’d spooned one another as we’d done more times than I could count.
But this would go down as the first time he’d ever woken me up with a ginormous erection pressed against me.
Finn had always had a natural charm. Too much sex appeal for his own good.
He was gorgeous.
Tall and lean, with just the right amount of muscle. His brown hair was shorter in the back and longer on top and effortlessly styled. He always donned day-old scruff that really worked for him.
He was sexy as hell, and he knew it.
