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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 133: Here for you
Avery's POVI called Jade from my room that evening when I got home.She picked up on the second ring. I could hear her moving somewhere in the background, the sound of her footsteps on the floor, and then a chair being pulled out."I was wondering when you were going to call," she said. “I'm so sorry I had a project session with Liam and his ex-girlfriend and ambushed us.”"Tell me everything," she said.So I did. I walked her through all of it, in order. Zoey arriving late and unapologetic, the session falling apart, the confrontation, Liam backing me up, Zoey standing up and walking out after I called out her strategy. Then the walk to the car park, what Liam had told me about Zoey's pattern, and what he had said at the end about the close friend at his old university and how it had gone for them.Jade listened without interrupting. When I finished, Jade was quiet for long enough that I wondered whether the line was dead or not. It was the quiet she used when she was working throu
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 132: What would she do
Avery's POVWe packed up at the same time without discussing it.Liam closed his laptop and stacked his notes and I did the same, and we moved through the end of the session without talking, which had always been one of the things about working with him that I had noticed early on. He did not fill silences because they made him uncomfortable. He just let them be what they were.Outside the library the air was cold and slightly damp, the kind that settled in your coat before you noticed it. The campus at this hour on a Saturday had the particular emptiness of a place that was built for weekdays and was only barely tolerating the weekend. The lights along the main path were on but most of the buildings behind them were dark and shut.We walked toward the car park without making a decision about it. Neither of us suggested it and neither of us peeled off in a different direction. It just happened the way things between us had started to happen, quietly, without either of us needing to sa
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 131: We are fine
Avery's POVI looked at her for another second.Then I looked at Liam. He was watching me from across the table with an expression that was careful and completely still, like he had heard the question clearly and was giving me the space to decide what I was going to do with it. He was not going to answer it for me and he was not going to pretend he had not heard it.I looked back at Zoey."I think," I said, keeping my voice steady, "that you have run out of things to say about the project. And now you are looking for a way to blow the whole thing up from the inside, because if you cannot be part of it the way you wanted to be then scattering it is the next best option."Zoey held my eye. Her expression did not change."That is not an answer to my question," she said."I noticed," I said. "And here is what I am going to say instead. I am Liam's project partner. That is the full extent of what is happening at this table and what happens at this table is all I am going to address. What y
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 130: How long
Avery's POVWe worked in silence for about twenty minutes.The session had the quiet of a ceasefire rather than actual peace. The kind of quiet where everyone at the table was aware of everyone else at the table and nobody was saying anything about it. Zoey was writing something but I could tell from the pace of it and the way she kept stopping that she was not making much progress. Liam had his head down and was typing at the pace he moved when he was genuinely thinking through something rather than filling a page, which was what Liam looked like when he was actually working rather than giving the appearance of it.I made myself focus.We were on the regulatory compliance section. I had done the reading and the structure of my argument was clear in my head, so the words were coming, which helped. The problem was that sitting at this specific table with these specific two people required a certain amount of background energy just to maintain the appearance of calm, and every few parag
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 129: Say something
Liam's POVZoey looked at me.The colour was still high in her face and her jaw was still tight. Her eyes had the quality they got when she was composing herself under pressure, which I had seen many times before. Controlled on the surface and something else entirely underneath it. She looked at me the way she always did when she needed something and was working out the angle."Are you going to say something?" she said. Her voice was even but there was effort in the evenness."About what?""About what just happened." She gestured toward Avery without looking at her. "She sat there and spoke to me like that and you said absolutely nothing."I looked at her. I took a second. There were three people at this table and two of them were waiting on me, and I was not in any hurry to give either of them the wrong impression about where I stood or why I was taking my time before I answered. Avery had not moved from her seat. She was sitting with her hands clasped on the table and she was watchi
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 128: Talk back
Avery's POVZoey turned back to Liam like I was not sitting two feet across from her.Like she had swatted at a minor inconvenience and filed it away, and the subject was now closed as far as she was concerned. Like the person she had just spoken to like that was a background detail in a scene that was entirely about her. She had said it and turned away without waiting to see how I received it, like the outcome did not particularly interest her.I looked at her profile. She was already talking again, her voice back in the soft, focused register she used when she was directing something exclusively at Liam. Like the twelve seconds in which she had spoken to me the way she had were a minor chapter that was now finished. Like she had dealt with it and moved on and the subject was no longer available for discussion.I knew this type and I had known it for a long time.She was the type who was used to being the most important name in every room she entered. Back at wherever she had transfe
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 023: Practice on the field
Avery's POVI was driving.Jade had offered but I had the keys already and we both knew the real reason was that I needed something to do with my hands on the way to cheer practice that afternoon. She sat in the passenger seat with one earbud in and her chin resting on her hand and she watched the
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 021: He didn't come
Avery's POVThe shock on his face was almost satisfying.Almost, because it didn't last as long as I wished so much in my head that it would.Professor Cross touched the side of his face with two fingers like he was checking to confirm what had just happened, and his expression cycled through sever
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 015: We should stop
Avery's POV The words stuck in my throat and I couldn't get them out. I looked at him in front of me in the low light with his blue-green eyes patient and his whole body leaning forward like someone who genuinely wanted the answer, and I felt the name right there at the tip of my tongue. "I can'
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 024: Working together
Avery's POVBrianna definitely had it coming and I wasn't going to let her get away with making me look bad this time.“I'll see you later.” Priya said and I watched her walk away.I took deep breaths to pace myself before springing into action that definitely would have consequences.I stood at th
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