Be Ours: A Valentine's Day Romance by Jagger Cole

Author:Jagger Cole [Cole, Jagger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-08T18:30:00+00:00

11

Tanner

Rage thunders in my very veins. I storm across the sand towards the dunes. I hear the door slam open and shut behind me, but I ignore it. What I just saw is…confusing. Half of me is enraged. That half wants to tear Bishop in half.

But the other half of me is…I shake my head. I don’t want to say “turned on”, but to deny it would be a lie.

I was almost to the station when Marvin called to reschedule our talk. I can’t say finding my best friend balls-deep in the girl I’ve found myself magnetically drawn to is the last thing I expected to see when I came home. But, it was pretty far down the list.

“Tanner!”

I glare over my shoulder. Bishop is storming after me.

“Fuck you,” I snap as he gets closer.

“C’mon man, stop—”

I whirl on him, my fists half raised. “You’ve got some fucking nerve, you motherfucker,” I snarl. “In my house!?”

His jaw tightens. “Tanner…”

“What!” I hiss. “What, Bishop? You want to tell me you’re sorry?”

He stops a few feet from me. His eyes are as stormy as mine, his jaw tight. He shakes his head. “No, actually.”

I bark a cold laugh. “You’re a real piece of work, shithead.”

“This isn’t about you, Tanner!”

“Yeah, it is!”

He snarls and looks away. “Okay, I misspoke. What I meant is, this isn’t because of you. I just…” he sighs and turns back to me. “There’s a draw there, Tanner. Between Cora and me. It’s like nothing I’ve ever felt, man. And I can’t….I couldn’t…”

He exhales slowly. He looks at me without blinking.

“I’m sorry, man. I am. I mean that.”

I look away across the dunes. “Fuck,” I grunt. “I know you are, and that pisses me off.”

He chuckles quietly. “You’d rather I just be an asshole about it? Rub your face in it?”

“Maybe,” I snap. “It’d make kicking your ass easier.”

He grins. “You could try—”

“Do not fucking push me,” I hiss. “No jokes, fucker. Not today. Not right now. I’m fucking warning you.”

Bishop nods. “Sorry. Tanner, I…shit, man. I don’t know what to do here.”

“Me neither.”

“It’s not just a physical thing,” he growls. “She’s not just some piece of ass or something.”

I snarl and bare my teeth. “No shit she’s not.”

He nods. “Glad we’re on the same page there.”

“So, you like her.”

Bishop folds his arms over his chest. He nods. “Yeah, I do. A lot, actually. Christ, Tanner, it’s like…I don’t even know.”

“Like a magnet.”

“Yeah, pretty much.” He sighs. “And you? You’re into her too?”

“Yes,” I hiss with zero hesitation.

Bishop shakes his head. He looks out across the dunes at the ocean. “Well, shit.”

“Pretty much.”

I lower myself down and sit my ass on the sand. Bishop plops down next to me.

“You’re my best friend, Tanner. You know that, right?”

I grunt.

“You can say it back,” he smirks.

“I told you not to fucking push me right now.”

He grins. “Okay, okay. But I mean that. Look buddy, what I feel for her is….it’s big. It’s sudden, I know that. But it’s in deep with me.

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