Falling for Your Wingman (Hot on Vacation Book 2) by Tabitha Bree

Author:Tabitha Bree [Bree, Tabitha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

19

Bowie

“I can’t believe this.”

“I know,” Tobin says, his eyes still wide with shock. “You expect to run into an ex when you live in the same city, but to see them in fucking Bali?”

“I’m not talking about you seeing your ex in Bali, which yes, is a bit weird.” I frown at the space where Mallory and Mason last stood before they disappeared out the door. “I’m talking about you.”

Tobin finally focusses on me, his brows drawn downward. “What about me?”

“Your whole cynical, ‘relationships are just surface level bullshit’, Gerard Butler from The Ugly Truth bravado thing you have going on. It’s all because of one girl?”

He opens his mouth to speak, but then closes it again.

I huff a laugh, putting my hands on my hips. “This is unbelievable. I knew there was more to your story than you were letting on. But I just figured you had a series of bad relationships, some deep high school trauma or something you never recovered from. Not one bad relationship.”

“Stop saying one like it wasn’t reason enough to be a bit jaded,” Tobin says, jutting out his chin.

“Well is it?” I balk. “You have a bad breakup and you decide to write off love all-together? Chalk it up to a hoax?” I slump onto a bar stool, staring at the bar as all the pieces slowly fall together. “This is why you’re so weird about dating. This is why you’re so closed-minded when it comes to meeting people. Or should I say, she’s why.”

Tobin exhales loudly, sinking into the stool next to mine. “Okay, fine. Maybe it is because of her.”

“Ah ha!”

“You don’t have to ‘ah ha’ me. I just admitted it.”

“Too cool for school Tobin… secretly nursing a broken heart.”

“Do people still say too cool for school?” Tobin gestures to the bartender to pour him a beer. “And I wouldn’t say it’s broken.”

“What would you say then?” I ask, swiveling my seat around to face him, my knees bumping the side of his thighs. “Because if you’re carrying on like this, she must have broken something.”

The bartender sits a glass of beer in front of Tobin, and he stares at it, swiveling it in circles with his thumb and forefinger. And that’s when I see it: the pain in his eyes that I’ve never picked up on before. Not before I saw the look on his face when he first ran into that blonde bombshell a few minutes ago.

“I wanted it to work… with Mallory,” he eventually chokes out. “Even though my track record didn’t exactly scream ‘relationship guy’, I was ready for something real, and I thought she was too.” A bitter laugh erupts from his throat. “Well hey, she’s engaged now, right? So I guess she was ready for something real, just not with me.”

Casting his eyes to the thatched ceiling, he shakes his head. “Engaged… engaged?”

“So you dodged a bullet,” I say matter-of-factly.

“What?”

“I know girls. Trust me when I say she wasn’t exactly jazzed when I jumped in, posing as your girlfriend.

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