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CHAPTER 69:

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Emma told herself it was nothing all through dinner.

She told herself it was nothing while they ate grilled fish on the deck and Lily talked about Jake and Marcus asked polite, measured questions, and the sky went orange, then violet, then dark.

She told herself it was nothing when she went to bed at eleven and lay staring at the ceiling, listening to the waves, listening to the creak of the house settling, listening for footsteps in the hallway and hating herself for it.

Sleep didn't come.

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  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 89:

    Emma didn't complain, she didn't say a word.She was watching Marcus face, and she felt it — a hairline crack running quietly through her chest, the way ice splits before it breaks, slow and inevitable and silent. She'd asked the question because she needed the answer. Because after tonight, after his hand around hers, after the almost-kiss in the cold, after everything he'd said on this porch — she needed to know if she was standing on solid ground or the edge of a cliff.His jaw tightened. His eyes didn't leave hers. Ten seconds. Fifteen.The crack deepened. And then—"No."One word. Barely above a whisper.She exhaled. But he wasn't finished.He looked at her with something painful and certain in his expression, the face of a man who'd just picked up a live wire and couldn't put it down."No." He said it again, slower. "That's exactly the problem."The silence after that was nothing like the comfortable silence from before.This one had edges.Emma stood at the railing and looked

  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 88:

    Emma was almost inside when she heard him behind her."Emma." She quickly turned.He was standing in the driveway, keys in his hand, the porch light throwing shadows across his face. He looked like a man who had said nothing all night because he was saving it, hoarding it, waiting for the right moment to use it like a blade."That house," he said. "The cliffside one."She waited.His eyes held hers across the dark."I designed it three years ago." A pause. "Before I had the client. Before I had any reason to build it." Another pause, longer this time, heavier. "I designed it for someone I hadn't met yet."The night air sat between them, perfectly still."Go to sleep, Marcus," she said softly.She started moving, going inside. She looked back, and he was still standing.She leaned her back against the closed door in the dark hallway, pressed both hands flat against the wood, and listened to the silence on the other side.He didn't leave for a very long time.As she stays there looking

  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 87:

    "That's exactly what the client said." Emma's voice was low. "Word for word, Emma. That's the exact phrase she used when she handed me the brief."Emma felt something shift in the air between them, something that had no name yet but was gathering weight."Coincidence," she said.He didn't answer. He just kept looking at her.She looked away first.Marcus steps closer and brushes her back softly with a smile. But Lily pretended as if she didn't hear it.Following the quietness of the house all afternoon, Marcus grabbed her hand and dragged her to the car. Emma couldn't protest; she never drew back. She just followed quietly.“Let go and have dinner.” He said, as she nodded.They drove to a nearby restaurant. Somewhere between Marcus fixing the porch light and Emma reheating leftover soup, they had both arrived at the same uncomfortable realization — there was no reason not to go out."It's just dinner," Marcus said, pulling on his jacket."Obviously," Emma said, not looking at him.T

  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 86:

    They worked like that for nearly two hours. Chairs pulled close, heads bent toward the same paper, the morning burning slowly past ten and toward eleven. Once he reached across her to correct a measurement and his arm stayed there a beat longer than necessary, braced on the table beside her, close enough that if she had turned her head, the geometry would have been very different.She didn't turn her head.She pressed her hand flat on the table instead, fingers spread, two inches from the blueprint. She felt her palm itch with the specific awareness of how easy it would be, how completely and devastatingly easy, to simply move it six inches to the left and press it against his chest.She didn't.But she thought about it with all of her body.He made more coffee at eleven.They drifted to the living room — not by plan, just by the natural migration of people who have been sitting in the same place long enough. Emma tucked herself into the corner of the couch. Marcus sat in the armchai

  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 85:

    And Marcus thought about it. Really considered it, the way he did with questions that deserved more than a reflex answer. "Three months," he said. "Maybe four. When Lily went to her aunt's for a fortnight.""Was it strange?" He said."The first day." He turned his mug slightly on the table. "Then it was just quiet."Emma nodded. She looked at her coffee. She could feel him looking at her."What did you do?" she asked. "With the quiet.""Worked," he said. "Mostly." A pause. "It turns out I don't know what I do when I'm not working.""That's not true.""No?""You sit on beaches in the dark," Emma said. "Apparently."The corner of his mouth moved. Not quite a smile. The almost-version that she had catalogued, without meaning to, over the past three weeks. The one that happened when something got through whatever he kept between himself and the world."Fair," he said.Silence.But not uncomfortable silence. The other kind, the kind that had weight and temperature, and that meant both peop

  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 84:

    Lily laughed softly, that quick, bright laugh that meant she thought she was being a little silly and didn't mind — and let go.Emma heard her say goodnight to Marcus again from the doorway, heard his low response, heard her footsteps on the stairs, heard them reach the top and move down the hall.Heard Lily's door close.Marcus reached over and turned the television volume down slightly. Not off. Just down.The room was very quiet.Emma looked at the page of her book. The same page she'd been on for some minutes. The words were arranged in the correct order and meant absolutely nothing."She worries about me," Marcus said. Not to start a conversation. Just a fact, settled into the quiet."I noticed," Emma said.He made a low sound. Not quite a laugh."She's not wrong," he said.Emma looked up. He was looking at the television. Profile to her, jaw slightly tightened, the way it was when he was saying something that cost him a small, specific amount to say.He didn't elaborate. And she

  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 27:

    Marcus's Jew tight. "Emma." Her name was barely a whisper, rough with sleep and something darker, more primal."I couldn't sleep," she said, the words tumbling out too quickly. "I didn't think anyone else would be up. I'll just—I'll go back to my room.""Don't."The single word stopped her in her t

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  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 25

    But Marcus pretended as if he was not worried about it. "I have to get to the office," Marcus said abruptly, already turning toward his study. "Important meeting. I'll be late tonight.""Dad, it's Saturday," Lily protested."Can't be helped. Work emergency." He disappeared into his study without an

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  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 22:

    Marcus hesitated. "I'm falling in love with you." Marcus's voice was steady now, sure. "I've been falling since the day you stepped into this house. Every day, a little more. And it terrifies me because I've never felt anything close to this before.""I'm falling in love with you, too," Emma breath

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  • FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER    CHAPTER 24:

    Emma's reflection in the window glass looked different now. Stronger. More certain.She'd given Marcus what he asked for tonight—she'd left when he told her to. But that didn't mean she was giving up. It didn't mean she was walking away from this feeling, from this connection that had turned her en

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