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370: Seeing Jade's mom
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 374: At the door
Avery's POVI had finally decided to get over the information and move on with my life as I usually did with every other thing that has happened recently. Little did I know I was in for a treat.He was on the doorstep when I opened the door on Thursday evening, and I almost closed it again before my brain caught up with what I was looking at.Dean. Standing there in a coat that had seen better winters, a bag over one shoulder, thinner than I remembered him being when he still lived under this roof. His hands were shaking slightly, whether from cold or something else I could not tell."Avery," he said. "Please. Just five minutes.""You are not supposed to be here," I said."I know," he said. "I know that. I am asking anyway."I should have shut the door. Every part of the last two months had been building toward the moment where I finally shut the door on this man and meant it, the way I had promised myself I would if he ever showed his face here again. But I stood there instead, my
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 373: First conversation
Avery's POVI did not eat breakfast.I stood in the kitchen for a while, looking at the gap in the fence, and then I put on my jacket and I went over. The street outside was quiet in the way it always was this early, nobody out yet, just the sound of my own footsteps on the pavement.It was early. His car was still in the drive. I did not check for Carter's. I knocked before I could stand there long enough to change my mind.Liam opened the door.He looked at me the way he had been looking at me every time we accidentally crossed parts since our falling out."Are you looking for Jade? She's in her room." he said."I need to talk to you," I said, before he could turn around and walk away.He stepped back to let me in.We went to the kitchen. I did not sit down. He leaned against the counter and crossed his arms and waited, like as if he knew exactly what I was going to say."Is your dad home?" I said.Something crossed his face. "He left early. Why?""Because what I am about to tell yo
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 372: My bestfriend
Avery's POVJade was in our kitchen when I came back in.She did not ask what happened. She looked at my face and she knew that it must not have been good.I took the chair across from her.Neither of us said anything."She told you everything," Jade said. Not as a question."Yes."She looked at the table. I watched her face change from different expressions. She had been living with Carter in that house for almost five months. Carter at her breakfast table. Carter's shoes in the hallway."Are you okay?" she said finally."I do not know yet. I think knowing the truth is better. Even when it is this.""Is it?"I nodded slowly."What are you going to do?""Tell Liam.""When?""Tomorrow. I have been waiting for him to talk to me for weeks now. Maybe I just need to approach him physically first."She looked at me for a second."Do you know what you are going to say?""Not yet. But it has to be all of it. Not a bridged account. Everything.""He is not going to take it easily.""I know.""H
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 371: What she knew
Avery's POVShe stood across from me in the kitchen and did not sit down, and I understood that she needed to be on her feet for this the same way I needed to be standing rather than seated. Some conversations required that. The ability to move if you needed to. The option to turn away."Carter told me before we married that he had done things he was not proud of," she said. "He said there was money he had moved through a company that was not entirely clean, and that he had paid people to keep quiet about it. He was not detailed. I did not push him to be. I told myself that everyone had a past and that what mattered was the man he was now, not the man he had been then."She paused."I believed that because I wanted to," she said. "I want you to know I am not confused about that."I held that. She had known there was something beneath the surface and she had chosen not to dig. I understood that. I had done the same thing with Dean, year after year, telling myself the situation was mana
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 370: Seeing Jade's mom
Avery's POVI stood outside the door for a long time before I knocked.I had knocked on this door thousands of times. I knew the sound it made from both sides. I knew the gap under it let in a draught in winter and that the handle stuck slightly if you turned it too fast. I had been in and out of this house since I was eight years old, done homework at that table, eaten there, waited for Jade to finish getting ready while she ran late for everything.Now Liam lived there.And Carter Harrington.The man whose name was on a document with my biological father. Who probably knows what arrangement that kept my biological father away from me before I was born. Who had built a respectable life on top of that and moved into this house four months ago when he married Jade's mom, and who I had been eating next door to and passing on the path and nodding at over the fence ever since, without knowing what that name actually meant to my own life.I had not known.I should not have had to know.But
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 369: Harder questions
Avery's POVMy mom was at the kitchen table when I came downstairs, hands wrapped around a mug of tea, staring at nothing. The morning light through the window made her look older than I had ever noticed before, or maybe I was only seeing it now because I finally understood what she had been carrying beneath the ordinary face I had known my whole life.She looked up when I walked in."Avery," she said. "I did not think you would want to see me this morning.""I need to ask you some things," I said, taking the chair across from her. "Harder things than last night. Are you able to do that right now, or do you need more time?""I owe you whatever time it takes," she said. "Ask.""How much money. Total. Everything he took from us over the two years he lived here. I want the real number, not a rounded guess."My mom closed her eyes."I never let myself add it up properly," she said. "Because I think if I had seen the total, I would not have been able to keep functioning day to day. But if
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 004: One night
Avery's POVThe kiss started soft.Then his hand slid into my hair and pulled me closer, and it stopped being soft entirely.I pressed into him and he pulled me in tighter and the music from the ceiling speaker faded out completely because all I could hear was my own heartbeat hammering in my ears.
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 003: Meeting him
Avery's POV The first hour was easy. The Friday crowd was the best kind. Loud enough to disappear into, generous with the tips, and mostly interested in their own conversations. I moved through my set on autopilot, which was not always a good thing but tonight it was exactly what I needed.I was h
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 002: Scarlett
Avery's POVFor a few seconds I just stood there in the doorway.My brain kept trying to make it make sense, like if I stared long enough the picture would rearrange itself into something I could live with. But there was no rearranging this. There was Colton, scrambling to pull the sheets up, and t
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 001: Happy Birthday to me
Avery's POV"If you drop her one more time, Brianna, I will pull you from the lineup myself."The whole gym froze.The music was still playing but nobody was moving. It suddenly became just twelve girls staring at me like I had said something in a foreign language, which I guess I had, because nobo
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