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009: Supposed to hate him
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 010: Only warning
Avery's POVHis hand was still in the air when I reached into my jacket pocket and reached for my pepper spray.I had carried a pepper spray since I got into college and some random dude stalked me in my first year. It came more in handy since I started working at the club and coming home either really late or in the early hours of the morning. It had lived in my jacket pocket ever since, and I even carry a backup in my purse.I pulled it out and sprayed him directly in the face before his raised hand came anywhere near me.The sound Dean made was not a word. It was something much more animal than a word, high and sharp and followed immediately by both his hands flying up to cover his face as he staggered backward into the kitchen doorway and then down onto one knee on the hallway floor."My eyes," he was saying. "You stupid bitch! My eyes, what did you do, what did you—"I reached into my bag and pulled out my taser.It made a sound like a sharp crack when I pressed the button. I wal
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 009: Supposed to hate him
Avery's POVTwo seconds.The handshake lasted exactly two seconds and I was the one who pulled away first.He let me go without comment, and for a moment after I dropped his hand, he just looked at me. Not the polite, surface-level glance of a person being introduced to someone they do not plan to think about again. Something more than that. His eyes moved over my face and down, taking their time, and when they came back up to meet mine there was an obvious ‘I-like-what-I-see’ look he had. I held his gaze and said nothing and gave a neutral expression and told myself my pulse was doing that because of the previous night's memory, not because of him in particular.Then he cleared his throat and turned to Jade."Is there a gym near here?" he said. "I had a look online last night but couldn't find anything close by.""Mercer Street," Jade said. "It's ten minutes away if you're driving."She said it the way she said things to people she had decided she was going to be polite to and nothi
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 008: The audacity
Avery's POV"I was wondering when you were going to pick up," Colton said.His voice was calm, without any ounce of guilt present there. He didn't even sound particularly apologetic. Just smooth and measured and rehearsed, the voice of someone who had spent the last several hours deciding exactly how he wanted to open this conversation and had landed on calm as his best option."What do you want, Colton?" I said."I want to talk. Last night turned into something it did not have to be and I think we both deserve a proper conversation instead of just silence."Jade was watching me from her chair with both eyebrows raised so high they had nearly disappeared. I held up one finger and she pressed her lips together and sat back."A proper conversation," I said."Yes. You didn't come to dinner, Avery. Do you know how long the waiting list is at Rossini's on a Friday night? I have been on it for three weeks. Three weeks of planning that birthday dinner and you just vanished without a call or
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 007: Stranger from last night
Avery's POVI couldn't move.I just stood there on the front step staring at him like an absolute idiot, and he stared back at me with no recognition whatsoever on his face, which made sense, because the last time he saw me I had a full face of stage makeup, a black wig down to my shoulders and a red satin mask covering half my face.Right now I was standing in a hoodie with yesterday's mascara faintly under my eyes and my real hair pulled into a messy bun.To him I was nobody.To me he was the guy I had spent last night with and given my virginity to. No wonder the car was familiar. I went in it last night with him to the motel."Hey." He leaned one arm against the door frame, easy and relaxed. "Can I help you?"His voice. The same voice. Low and warm and completely unbothered.I opened my mouth and absolutely nothing came out."She's with me!"Jade appeared from somewhere behind him, grabbed him by the shoulder and physically moved him out of the doorway like he was a piece of furni
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 006: Recognise him
Avery's POV My mum thought I was waitressing at a bar somewhere downtown. It was a perfect alibi for my late nights and the decent tips I brought home on work nights. There was absolutely nothing to worry about. I had kept that story clean for months and I had no plans to change it."Busy night," I said, sitting down across from her. "I made good tips though." I reached into my bag and pulled out the envelope. Thise were tips from the floor during my sets plus the private room. I put it on the table in front of her.Her eyes went wide. "Avery—""Take it. It's for the house."She reached for it with both hands and I watched her start to uncrumple some of the bills and the exhaustion in her face slowly gave way to something like relief and my chest did that tight thing it always did."This is so much, sweetheart. This will cover the—""Well, well."The voice came from the hallway and both of us froze.Dean leaned in the kitchen doorway with a terribly worn shirt on and his hair going e
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 005: Back to reality
Avery's POVThe first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes was the dim light.It was creeping in through the gap in the curtain, pale and grey, the kind of light that meant it was not quite morning yet but getting close. The kind that meant I had stayed way too long.The second thing I noticed was Liam's arm across my waist.I lay still for a moment and looked at him. He was on his side facing me, eyes closed, breathing slow and easy. In sleep he looked younger somehow. Less guarded. His dark hair was a complete mess and his jaw was soft and I had absolutely no business noticing any of it.I slid carefully out from under his arm.He shifted slightly but didn't wake. I held my breath until he settled, then gathered my things from the floor as quietly as I could. The wig was still on. The mask was still in place. I was still Scarlett, technically, and Scarlett did not stand around in motel rooms watching strangers sleep.I found a small notepad on the nightstand and a pen beside it.I
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