Accidentally Married to Brother's Best Friend by Sofia T Summers

Author:Sofia T Summers [Summers, Sofia T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

17

Preston

I was back in Boston, back to my usual life… and fuck, I hated it.

Okay, no, that wasn’t true. I loved my life. I had worked hard for all of this and I felt incredibly rewarded by the place I was now in. My parents had been beyond pleased that I wanted to be a lawyer, I couldn’t deny that having their approval and choosing a job they liked helped, but I really did love my job. I was competitive and studious, I worked hard and played hard, and being a lawyer fit all of that.

My apartment? I liked it. My friends? I liked them. My coworkers? Excellent. There was nothing about my life that I didn’t like—except.

Now that I was here, after Lyric, I felt her absence. Like there was a hole shaped exactly like her in my life.

I’d had no idea what was missing from my life until now. I’d thought about Lyric a few times over the years, missing her, wondering how she was doing, wondering if I’d made the right choice. But that was nothing compared to how I felt now that I’d seen her again and slept with her, spent time with her.

My apartment was large, and I’d bought it with that in mind, because I’d known I was buying a place that I wanted to have for years, a place to move my spouse into. But now it was too large. I couldn’t help but look at the closet and wonder about what it would look like with Lyric’s clothes in it.

Would she make use of the spare room as a home office for her business? Would she want to redecorate things? I wouldn’t mind if she did. I was happy to move things around or repaint the walls—I hadn’t done a lot of decorating myself, too busy at work, and this place, I realized, could really use a homey touch.

What about all those work parties, those mixers I had to go to all the time? I enjoyed them—I’d always enjoyed making friends and chatting with people—but now I could only feel the weightlessness of my arm. I could only think about how much better it would be if Lyric was on that arm, if she was making remarks under her breath, making me laugh. If I could joke around with her and introduce her to all of my colleagues and clients, how impressed with her they’d all be. She’d dazzle them all with her wit and confidence. I just knew it.

Coming back home from work to an empty apartment was… harder than I had ever thought it would be. I kept hoping to hear Lyric’s voice. Sleeping in bed without being able to tuck my arms around her and hold her… it was a struggle. We had only spent a couple of days together, but everything that I’d felt only reinforced the lingering ghost of feelings that had hovered at the back of my mind all these years.

In fact, it was hard to get anything fucking accomplished.

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