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Chapter 7
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2026-05-05 10:36:37
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SEDUCING MY BESTFRIEND'S BROTHER Chapter 12
Marcus did not come to the bakery the following Thursday.I noticed at ten o'clock, which was when he usually arrived. I noticed again at eleven, when the morning had fully settled into its quiet middle rhythm and the window table sat empty with the particular emptiness of something expected and absent. By noon I had stopped looking at the door with any real expectation and had transferred my attention entirely to the ganache I was tempering, which required precision and therefore was an excellent professional reason to stop thinking about anything else.Renee said nothing.This was, in its own way, louder than anything she could have said.He didn't text either.Not Thursday, not Friday. Saturday I was at the bakery for the wholesale prep and my phone stayed quiet in the way phones stayed quiet when you were aware of them, which was the worst kind of quiet. Sunday was the Halloween dinner at the Calloway brownstone and I had told Patricia I was coming and I was not going to cancel, n
SEDUCING MY BESTFRIEND'S BROTHER Chapter 11
The week after my conversation with Jade, I waited for something to change.For the temperature to drop at family events, for Jade to become careful around me in the particular way she became careful when she was managing feelings she hadn't fully processed. For Marcus to suddenly seem more distant, which would mean Jade had said something to him, which would mean the whole careful architecture of the last few weeks would need to be revisited from the ground up.None of that happened.What happened instead was ordinary — Jade texted me Monday about a television show she'd started, Tuesday about a work thing, Wednesday to ask if I was coming to her parents' Halloween dinner the following weekend. Normal Jade, full frequency, no detectable change in signal.Either she had processed it faster than I expected, or she was holding it carefully and waiting.Knowing Jade, probably both.The bakery on Monday was busy in the good way — a wholesale order from a restaurant in the West Village tha
SEDUCING MY BESTFRIEND'S BROTHER Chapter 10
Jade Calloway had two modes when she suspected something.The first was direct — she asked the question plainly, looked you in the eye, and waited with the particular patience of someone who had decided they were going to get an answer and the only variable was how long it took. This mode was efficient and slightly terrifying and most people capitulated within thirty seconds.The second was oblique — she circled the thing, approached it from angles, asked questions that were technically about something else but were actually about the thing, until the person she was talking to either confessed voluntarily or found themselves so thoroughly cornered that confession felt like their own idea.I had known Jade for eleven years. I knew both modes intimately. I could see them coming from a distance the way you could see weather moving in over the water — the particular quality of light before it changed.She was in mode two on Sunday.We were at brunch — just the two of us, our regular place
SEDUCING MY BESTFRIEND'S BROTHER Chapter 9
I did not plan the bookstore.That was the thing I kept coming back to afterward — the fact that it was genuinely accidental, unengineered, a collision of two people's Saturday afternoons with no architecture behind it. I had not manufactured it. I had not known he would be there. If I had, I might have chosen a different bookstore entirely, which was its own kind of information about where my resolve stood on a given Saturday in late October.The bookstore was on Court Street in Cobble Hill — small, independent, the kind of place that smelled like paper and wood polish and took its fiction section seriously. I had been going there since college. I went when I needed to think, which meant I went fairly often, and I went alone, which meant I knew the layout well enough to navigate it without looking up from whatever I was already reading.I was in the back corner, in the literary fiction section, halfway through the first chapter of something a review had recommended, when I heard his
SEDUCING MY BESTFRIEND'S BROTHER Chapter 8
The thing about intelligent women was that they noticed everything.I had understood this about Isabelle Ferreira from the moment I met her — from the way she listened at that first Sunday brunch, the quality of her attention, the precision of her questions. She was a corporate attorney who argued complex cases in front of rooms full of people whose job it was to find holes in her reasoning. She had spent years training herself to see what was actually happening beneath the surface of what was being presented.Which meant that whatever I thought I was concealing, I was probably concealing approximately half of it.I thought about this on the subway ride home from the Calloway dinner party, sitting with my coat in my lap and the Friday night city rushing past the dark windows. I thought about the look I had caught on her face during the restaurant disagreement — that small, careful thing moving behind her composure. I thought about the way her eyes had tracked between Marcus and me at
SEDUCING MY BESTFRIEND'S BROTHER Chapter 7
The first thing I changed was the Thursday routine.Not dramatically. I didn't reinvent myself overnight or arrive at the bakery in something that would have made Renee raise both eyebrows and ask questions I wasn't ready to answer. That was not the kind of woman I was and it was not the kind of move I was making. What I did was smaller and, I had decided, more effective.I stopped making it easy for Marcus to categorise me.The Thursday before, I had been behind the counter in my standard bakery uniform — dark jeans, white button-down under my apron, hair pulled back because hair near food was a professional liability. Practical. Efficient. The visual equivalent of a sentence that ended with a period.This Thursday I wore a deep green wrap dress under my apron, kept my hair down, and put on the small gold earrings that Jade had given me two birthdays ago and that I usually saved for evenings. I looked, Renee said when she arrived at six, like myself but turned up slightly."Like a ra
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