1514642093 (R) by Amanda Dick

Author:Amanda Dick [Dick, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Sports, Mystery & Suspense, Suspense
Amazon: B00YS7SUUS
Goodreads: 22915033
Publisher: Amanda Dick
Published: 2015-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

I SAT ACROSS FROM Vinnie in the pub, trying hard not to smile.

“Come on,” he grinned eagerly. “I’m your brother. Your only brother. You can tell me. Yes or no?”

I shook my head and took another sip of beer before putting the glass back down on the table. “Not kissing and telling.”

“Ah, so there’s been kissing! Way to go, little bro!”

I grinned back at him. “You’re acting like a two-year-old again.”

“Am not!”

I shook my head, refusing to be drawn – partly because it was fun to watch him suffer. It was rare that I had any secrets from Vinnie. Partly because I just wasn’t sure he’d get it. His courtship, if you could even call it that, with Jas, was a long, drawn-out affair. They were one of those ‘on-again, off-again’ couples for a long time, until they settled into each other. He was a confirmed bachelor, and she was headstrong. She made him fight for her, which I completely understood, knowing him as I did.

Partly because I wasn’t sure how to explain it in such a way that he would understand – I wasn’t even sure I understood it myself, yet. I only knew that I felt the need to coddle my relationship with Maia, protect it from the outside world until it was strong enough to take the scrutiny. I didn’t want anything ruining it while we were still finding our feet.

“Whatever,” he said, taking a swig of beer and feigning indifference. “I’ll get it out of you eventually. You were always shit at keeping secrets.”

“If that’s a dig about the bike thing, you need to get the hell over it. I was seven, and no seven-year-old on earth is good at keeping secrets.”

He shrugged, taking a sip of his beer, but I could see him trying not to let a smile get the better of him. Asshole. He knew I was gonna give in and he’d get everything he was asking for. Suddenly, I was sick of being predictable. I wanted to shock him.

“She’s moved in with me.”

He sprayed beer all over me. Staring at me like I’d just pissed in his cornflakes, he wiped his face with his hand. It would’ve been comical if I wasn’t so nervous.

“What did you just say?”

“It’s not what you think,” I said, holding up a hand. “There were extenuating circumstances.”

“You better explain yourself, bro.”

Here goes. For better or for worse.

“Look, for reasons I’ve yet to figure out, she was living in her car. I couldn’t let her do that, it’s not safe. So I offered her my spare room.”

He nodded slowly, his eyes narrowing. “Right.”

“I’m serious.”

“About the fact she was living in her car, or about the fact she’s staying in the spare room?”

“Both.”

He nodded slowly again, and I could almost see the cogs turning in his brain. “So you’ve definitely slept together, then?”

I didn’t want to do this, but he wasn’t going to let it go. “Not yet, no.”

“But she’s living with you. So, is it like a flatmate situation or what?”

“It’s a recent development,” I hedged.

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