Here’s Chapter 3 of Best Friend’s Older Brother. I didn’t sleep after I went back upstairs. I lay in the guest bed with the T-shirt still on and Noah’s come slowly drying on my thighs, staring at the ceiling while the house remained silent. Every time the floorboards settled I expected Mia’s door to open. It never did. The only sound that eventually came was the soft creak of the stairs and the quiet close of Noah’s bedroom door down the hall. Morning arrived too bright. I showered longer than necessary, scrubbed the evidence from my skin, and dressed in clean shorts and a soft sweater before going downstairs. Mia was already in the kitchen in pajamas, making coffee like it was any other sleepover morning. Noah sat at the island with a mug and his phone, hair still damp from his own shower. When I entered, his eyes met mine for half a second—dark, private, full of the kitchen counter—before he returned to the screen. “Morning,” Mia said. “You look wrecked. Guest bed that bad?” “
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