Covet by Yolande Kleinn

Author:Yolande Kleinn [Kleinn, Yolande]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2017-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

A week passed. A second week after that. Peter didn’t approach Jack as a month stretched between them in stubborn silence. He spent conscious effort to keep himself from calling his brother’s number, and more time didn’t make it any easier.

One month became two, and summer gave ground to a dry, sulky fall. The days passed quickly, and Peter found leaving Jack alone an almost unbearable challenge. He couldn’t honestly remember the last time they’d gone more than a week without contact. Even one memorable time in college, living in different dorms and fighting over something completely stupid that had seemed the end of the world, they had still talked. A little.

As close as they’d always been—as many opportunities as they’d had to step on each other’s toes—Peter couldn’t remember a time things had been this utterly, irreparably wrong between them. He would fix it if he had any idea how. Staying away from Colin seemed a logical start, but it was only a matter of time before that aspiration crumbled.

The problem was, Jack’s number wasn’t the only one Peter was trying to forget; Maureen was still the first emergency contact on his cell phone, for God’s sake. Peter had dropped suddenly into the cold, shallow waters of single life. Knowing it was probably inevitable (with or without Colin, if Peter was honest) did nothing to ease the sting.

He missed her.

Nearly two months since she’d left, and he still missed Mo with a constant, quiet ache. It didn’t matter that they wanted different things. It didn’t matter that they weren’t perfect together. What mattered was that Peter still woke up expecting to find her asleep beside him. Mo had always hated mornings more than he did, always hit snooze at least three times before finally getting out of bed, and Peter kept finding himself surprised by her absence.

Maybe he would get over her faster if he had his usual coping methods. He’d been through breakups before. He knew eventually it did get better, if he was stubborn enough. The problem was, usually he had Jack to remind him of that fact along the way. Last time Peter had faced down the end of a relationship, Jack had dragged him out to the bar every night for two weeks. Distracting him, reassuring him, doing all the things a brother ought to do when things went to shit.

Peter had other friends—he’d even called on a couple of them in the past few weeks—but they weren’t Jack. Peter refused to bare his soul to someone just because he had no one else to talk to. This left him at loose ends, and none too happy about it.

The flip side was just as pathetic: with Mo gone, Peter had no one to advise him on the mess he’d made with his brother. It was like he’d killed two birds with one careless stone. He kept hearing the slam of his own front door in his head, a sound on endless repeat. But Mo hadn’t slammed the door.

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