Best Friend's Second Chance (Wilder Brothers Book 2) by Lisa Levine

Author:Lisa Levine [Levine, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

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By the time I had gotten back to the apartment, Bridget was there, and I had racked up quite a bill on my credit card. She came running to the door and hugged me.

“I was so worried about you!” she said as she squeezed the air out of me. “You didn’t have your phone on you, and Easton said that he saw you run out of the store, and I knew you were upset. You’ve been gone for so long, where have you been?”

The mention of his name felt like hot daggers cutting through the meaty parts of my lungs, and I tried to suck a breath in, but I couldn’t because I didn’t want to fall apart again.

“I was just riding around in a cab,” I answered as we walked inside. “I just didn’t want to be at home yet.”

“Because you thought Easton would come here,” Bridget said as she sat down with me on the couch and wrapped us both up underneath a fuzzy blanket.

“Did he?” I asked.

“Yeah,” she said. “Several times. And he asked me to give you this.”

Bridget pulled a folded up note out of her pocket and handed it to me. I didn’t want to read it, at least not yet. I took it and set it on my lap beneath the blanket. Then she handed me my phone back. It vibrated as soon as she put it in my hand.

“It’s been going off all day,” she said. “I had to put it on silent.”

I looked down at the home screen and saw that there were literally hundreds of missed calls and texts, all from Easton. I didn’t want to read or listen to any of them, so I set the phone on the coffee table face-down.

“Are you going to read the note, at least?” she asked. “It looked like it was handwritten.”

I looked at her in surprise. “You don’t even like him,” I said. I couldn’t bring myself to say his name. “Why would you care whether or not I read his note?”

“You’re right,” she said. “I didn’t like him. In fact, I’m still on the fence about the guy. And what he did to you was a horrible and inexcusable thing. That being said, I’m not sure he actually did it to you.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“Ivy, that man is beside himself right now. That much I can tell you. He chased after you, and then when he couldn’t find you, he came back into the bookstore. By that time, Layla and her pack of ditzy mutts had left. Easton sat down at one of the café tables and cried.”

“He cried?” I said in astonishment. I’d never seen Easton cry, not in all the years that I’d known him.

“He knows he screwed up. Like I said before, he was scared. I’m not making any excuses for his truly shitty choices and behavior, but I think the reason he slept with Layla had more to do with keeping you as some sort of “protected virginal princess” than it had to do with him not wanting to have sex with you.

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