Finding Forever: Treading Water Series, Book 5 by Force Marie

Author:Force, Marie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-950654-81-9
Publisher: HTJB, Inc.
Published: 2020-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Brayden thought about Maggie and the story she’d told him all day while fishing with his friends, eating dinner and trying to pass the time until ten o’clock.

“You’re not staying in again tonight, are you, dude?” Josh asked while he got ready to go out. The two of them had been roommates in college and always shared a room when they traveled with the guys.

“I’m afraid I am.”

“I don’t even know who you are anymore.”

Brayden laughed. “Yes, you do. Who’s the one who can never go out anymore at home because he’s so married?”

“That’s different! That’s home. This is vacation.”

“What can I say? I’d rather talk to her than go out drinking with you losers.”

“That’s hurtful, Brayden.”

Josh’s efforts to make a hurt face only further amused Brayden.

“Go have a good time. That’s what this is all about, right? Everyone doing what they want.”

“That’s right, and what we all want is to go out and party—with you—like we always do.”

“Remember how it was when you first met Ashley?”

Josh, who’d been using the mirror over the dresser to bring order to his wet blond hair, turned to face Brayden, his tanned face as serious as Brayden had seen it in a long time. “You’re comparing this chick to Ashley?”

Josh and Ashley had been together since college and were crazy about each other, had been from the get-go.

“So what if I am?”

“You just met her a couple of weeks ago?”

Not even that long. “So what?”

“You’re putting her on Ashley’s level? This is more serious than I thought.” He opened the bedroom door and summoned the other four guys, all of whom were dressed in shorts and T-shirts after having showered. “Boys, we have a situation.”

Brayden rolled his eyes and flopped back on his bed like a fish landing on a deck, resigned to his fate.

“What’s up?” Max asked. He still had the body of the linebacker he’d been at UT as well as the dark hair and blue eyes that’d made him the ultimate chick magnet in college.

Josh was more than happy to fill them in on what was happening. “Our boy Brayden just compared this chick he’s been mooning over all week to Ashley.”

“Shut the fuck up.” Taylor’s face went blank with shock. “She’s your Ashley?”

“I didn’t say that. I simply asked Josh if he remembered what it was like when he first met Ashley.”

“This is huge,” Isaac said. Tall, with dark-brown skin and the same muscles he’d had when he too played football at UT, Isaac worked as an accountant these days. “We gotta meet this girl.”

“No, you don’t.”

“Are you ashamed of us, bro?” Max asked.

“Fuck yes. You’re to stay far, far, far away from her.”

“I’m hurt,” Taylor said. He’d been training to be a doctor for so long, he said he’d forgotten what it was like to not be in school of some kind. One more year, and he’d be done.

“You have to have feelings in order to be hurt,” Brayden said. “Now all y’all need to fuck off and get out of here so I can call her.

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