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270: Ashamed
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 272: You lied
Liam's POV "Which bar?"The two words came out of Avery's mouth before the rest of her brain had caught up with them. I watched it happen in real time. The question leaving her mouth with the genuine confusion of someone who had not been asked what she expected, and then the half second where she heard herself, and her eyes went to my face properly, and the colour shifted. She knew what she had said. "Never mind," she said quickly. "I know which one you mean." "Do you?" I asked. "Yes. Obviously. I work there." She picked up her mug and wrapped both hands around it and did not look at me. "I just was not sure which part of the strip you meant." I kept my voice even. "You said which bar. Like you did not know which one I meant." "Liam." Her voice came out sharper than she probably intended and she put the mug down hard enough that the coffee shifted. "I know where I work. I was just distracted." "Avery." I looked at her. "I went there." The kitchen went very quiet. She turned
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 271: The only way
Liam's POVI sat in the coffee shop for another twenty minutes after Zoey left.Not because I had anywhere useful to be. Just because I needed the time to get the anger down from the level it was at to the level I could actually function at. The anger at Zoey was the easier one. I could set that aside because she was gone and there was nothing further to do with it. The anger at myself for going there in the first place was harder to let go of. I had walked in hoping for a straight answer and walked out having called a woman a prostitute, which was not how I had expected the evening to go.But I had nothing. That was the only fact that mattered right now. The information I came seeking, I didn't have it yet.I turned the options over and they were fewer than I would have liked. I could stop looking on my own. I could wait and watch and let the thing I already knew go unaddressed until it got heavy enough to crush whatever was left between me and Avery. Or I could go to Avery directly,
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 270: Ashamed
Liam's POVFor a full two seconds I said nothing at all.I looked at Zoey across the table and she looked back at me with that calm certain expression and the silence between us was the kind that happened when someone had said something so far outside what you expected that your brain needed a moment to confirm it was real.Then I laughed.It was not the warm kind, just a short sharp sound with nothing funny in it."You are serious," I said."I am completely serious," she told me.I looked at her for a moment without speaking. Whatever I had expected from this conversation, whatever version of it I had been running through my head on the drive over, it had not included this. She had spent all of that time in the coffee shop being careful and measured and the whole time she had been moving toward this moment.I pushed back my chair and stood up. "You want me to sleep with you in exchange for the name of a venue." I looked down at her. "You actually thought I was going to say yes to tha
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 269: Conditions
Liam's POVThe words fell between us and neither of us moved.Zoey was watching me with the expression she had when she knew she had said something that was going to follow a person for a long time whether they wanted it to or not. Not triumphant, not even particularly satisfied. Just certain."You asked her about it," she said. "About where Brianna and I were that night." She read my face and I knew she was reading it correctly. "And you did not get what you needed."I said nothing."Whatever she told you did not hold up, or she would not give you a straight answer at all." Zoey looked at me steadily. "I know you, Liam. I know what you do when you have a problem. You try every option within the situation before you go outside it. You go quiet, you ask the right person directly, and only when that does not work do you go somewhere else." She leaned back in her chair. "You are not here because you think I went somewhere interesting with Brianna. You are here because you asked Avery for
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 268: Spend the night
Liam's POVZoey picked up on the second ring."Liam," she said, and her voice had the particular quality it got when she was already thinking before she spoke. "This is unexpected. I'm surprised you're calling me by this time of the night but I'm happy you are.""I need to see you," I said. "Tonight if possible."A pause. "Is everything alright?""I just need to ask you something and I'll prefer to do it in person. It won't take long."She agreed to meet me at a coffee place near campus at nine thirty. I got there first and took a table at the back, ordered nothing, and waited. She came in ten minutes later, her coat still on from outside. She sat down across from me and looked at my face with the careful attention she had always brought to things she was trying to read."You look like a man who has had a difficult evening," she said."I have had an interesting one." I looked at her straight. "I need to know something.""Ask.""Where did you go with Brianna? That night. The venue. I n
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 267: Surprising her
Liam's POVAfter that encounter with her, I let my intrusive thoughts go and decided I was just going to surprise her at work and see what happens. On the day I planned it, Avery kissed me goodbye at the door at half past six and said she would be back sometime around 2:00 a.m."Late shift?" I asked, leaning in the doorway."The Friday ones always run long." She pulled her jacket on. "Don't wait up."I watched her walk down to the street and get into her car. When the engine started I went back inside and sat on the sofa and looked at the wall.I stayed there for exactly thirty minutes.Then I got my jacket.I was not angry. I was not planning to cause a scene. I just wanted to walk into that bar and see her face when she saw me and understand for myself what the problem was. If she was there and happy to see me then I had nothing to worry about. If she was there and not happy to see me I would know which conversation to have. Either way I would know something, and right now I knew n
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 025: Not your world
Avery's POVFor a moment nobody said anything.Jade stood two steps below us on the library steps with her shopping bag in her hand. I wondered how she knew where we were. Either way, the look on her face was not the quiet, contained version of hurt she had worn all afternoon at practice. This was
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 032: Liking him more
Avery's POVHe did not answer straight away.I had asked about Jade like I was asking about a random stranger I didn't know. He was quiet as if there was an elephant in the room for a second or two before he picked it up. I lay still and waited and told myself I was just curious, that it was a natu
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
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
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