A Wedding on Sunshine Corner by Phoebe Mills

Author:Phoebe Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

A few days later, Savannah’s brothers came over to Noah’s house for a long-overdue video game tournament. They usually tried to have at least one a month, but he’d been so busy of late that it’d been hard to commit to a full evening of drinking beer and shooting things.

Of course, one of the reasons he’d been so busy was all the time he’d been spending with their little sister. The night after the pantry renovation, she’d come over again to see the finished product, shelves and all. His verbal thank-you had been well received, but the one he offered her with his hands and mouth had been even more so.

Not that he could ever, ever, ever tell the Lowe boys about that.

“Are you going to play, man, or keep daydreaming over there?” Aaron asked as he nudged Noah with his elbow.

“Not that any of us are complaining about these freebie kills you keep handing us.” Spencer didn’t even bother with a glance in Noah’s direction, his gaze laser focused on the TV.

“Why’d you have to say anything, dude?” Jackson scowled at Aaron. “Maybe Noah likes it when we hand him his ass.” He shoved a handful of chips in his mouth and shot Noah a grin as he chewed loudly. The youngest Lowe brother had never been one for pesky things like manners.

Irritated at himself for letting his thoughts drift to these guys’ little sister, Noah cleared his throat and focused back on the four-person split screen where he was, indeed, having his ass handed to him. “Thought I’d give you guys a break. Figured you could use it.”

He was lying through his teeth, of course. They were playing one of their favorite first-person shooters, and five of them—Noah and Savannah’s three brothers at his place, plus Caleb long distance—were playing in a private lobby, player-versus-player free-for-all. Whoever collected the most kills among them won bragging rights and trash talking—a truly priceless prize with this crew—until the next tournament, whenever that may be. Noah wasn’t the least bit shocked to see he was in last place. Not when he’d spent the last who knew how long with his head in the clouds, daydreaming about Savannah.

Caleb snorted from the laptop. “Still with the excuses, I see. So what you’re telling me is not much has changed since I’ve moved?”

Most of the time, it sucked not having his best friend around to do things like this—to hang out or even just swing by for a beer on his way home from work like they’d done a hundred times before Caleb had moved to San Francisco. But, thankfully, technology had softened that particular blow. Having him on a laptop screen on the coffee table wasn’t exactly the same, but it was better than nothing. And it certainly didn’t impair the taunts.

“Everyone’s got jokes, huh?” Noah mumbled, his focus now entirely on the game as he attempted to snag some more kills and even the playing field a bit.

It was a losing battle,

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