Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

Author:Lyssa Kay Adams [Adams, Lyssa Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Alexis had never considered herself a coward.

Naive, maybe. Misguided for sure. But everything she’d ever done, every horrible mistake she’d ever made, had been rooted in reasons.

Not necessarily good reasons. Sometimes really bad reasons. Sometimes the reason was that she had no other choice. But not once did she ever feel like she’d done something purely out of fear.

Not until she told Noah she needed space and then walked away from him on Monday. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but as the days passed, doubt and regret followed by a punishing dose of loneliness made clear what had really been driving her decision: cowardice. She’d been humiliated by his reaction to their kiss, and so she’d simply gone into hiding. She’d spent all week avoiding everyone and their questions—Liv, Jessica, Sonia. She threw herself into work and dodged all attempts to get her to talk.

Even when the call came in from the transplant center with the news that she had passed the initial blood test, making her a possible match for the transplant, she had the transplant team tell Elliott and Candi rather than calling them herself.

So it really shouldn’t have been a surprise on Thursday night when a vicious pounding at her front door brought her reluctantly downstairs. She opened the door and found Liv, Jessica, Thea—Liv’s sister—and Sonia there. They held bottles of wine, cartons of ice cream, and determined expressions that left her no choice but to step back and let them in.

“Sit,” Liv said, pushing Alexis toward the couch in her living room. “We’ll take care of everything else. And then you’re going to tell us what the hell is going on.”

Alexis feigned ignorance. “What do you mean?”

Jessica and Sonia plopped down on opposite ends of the couch and tugged her down into the middle. “Don’t play dumb,” Jessica said. “You’ve been weird all week, and Noah hasn’t been in the café since Monday morning.”

“We’ve both been busy.”

“Is that why he looks like a puppy who got his favorite toy taken away?” Thea asked, returning from the kitchen with spoons and ice cream. She shoved a pint of dark chocolate cherry into Alexis’s hands and then lowered herself to the floor. Liv followed with wine and glasses.

“Did you guys have a fight or something?” Jessica asked.

Alexis poked her spoon into the ice cream. “No.”

Jessica accepted a glass of wine from Liv. “Does it have something to do with him yelling at Elliott?”

“Yes, and no. I don’t know where to start.” She handed the ice cream to Sonia, who dug in without hesitation.

Liv suddenly gasped. “Holy shit. Something happened between you two.”

Alexis’s ears got hot.

“Did you sleep together?” Liv blurted.

“No!” Alexis sat up straight, but either her face or her tone of voice gave her away. She was holding out on them.

“Then what’s going on?” Liv asked.

Alexis tossed her hands in the air. “For God’s sake, we kissed, okay?”

Her friends gasped in unison so hard that Alexis’s ears popped.

“Oh my God,” Alexis moaned, falling back against the cushions.

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