Delicate by K. L. Cottrell

Author:K. L. Cottrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romance novel, emotional romance, new adult romance, friends to lovers romance
Publisher: K. L. Cottrell

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B E C K E T T

now

Having Noelle agree with me that we can put our candlelit moment of weakness behind us and get back to being friends…God, it meant the world to me.

Obviously, a huge part of me doesn’t want to pretend those kisses didn’t happen. I can’t help it. No one ever wants to pretend that about things they loved every millisecond of. But the rest of me is relieved she didn’t call me horrible and call the last two years a series of mistakes.

I don’t want to be a mistake to her.

I also don’t want to be a knife in Cliff’s back.

Thankfully, yes, she feels the same way.

However, that didn’t make seeing her any less awkward when I went back to her house to spend a bit of time with Theodora; I don’t believe I’ve ever slogged through more awkwardness in my life.

Noelle and I kept more distance between us than I remember there being in a long, long time, but it didn’t bring me a sense of security. It just felt wrong. And laughs were harder to come by because it was the first time we had tried to talk normally since….

My God, did I miss her easy laughter. Echoes of it were still with me, and I wanted so badly to hear it fresh and free right in front of me.

The bottom line, I guess, is that I still just missed her.

And she was so beautiful even though I knew she had had a long day.

I kept catching her looking at me like she might’ve been thinking the same thing where I was concerned.

Every time that happened, we both visibly tried to act like it hadn’t.

Tried to act like we weren’t thinking anything the least bit not-friend-like.

Tried to ignore how accidental glances at lips kept putting color in her cheeks and something in my throat that refused to be cleared away properly.

And I personally tried to ignore how she ended up spending long, lung-gripping seconds rippling her fingers against the thighs of her leggings. Not only did it make me wonder if she wanted to touch me, but it was also the very same thing she did in her shadowed kitchen just before I reached out and touched her and sent us snowballing.

Memories I was not allowed to think about.

So we focused on Theo as much as we could.

Not that that was an actual chore, of course; she’s a gift. It did something good to my soul to give her piggyback rides around the front yard to the tune of her shrieky giggles. Spending time with her always does good things for me. And it was extra special then because I was so grateful not to have been kicked to the curb by her mama.

We’ll get used to it, I just kept telling myself when the awkwardness prickled at me. Noelle and I only kissed last night. Not enough time has passed for us to move on. It’ll happen soon.

Well, that was three days ago, and all of it is still on my mind.

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