Forever to Ruin (Roommate for Roommate Book 2) by Maia Aaron

Author:Maia Aaron [Aaron, Maia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

JAMES

NOW

She went to a bar last night.

She was at a bar, dancing and drinking and probably getting hit on by anything with a working dick.

Nevermind—she definitely was. I saw that damn skirt she was wearing yesterday morning. I saw how her ass looked in that skirt, because fuck me, I’m a douchebag who can’t help it.

It’s all my fucking fault. When she told me in the morning she wouldn’t need me to pick her up from work, I shouldn’t have pushed for the reason why. In my defense, I just wanted to make sure she wasn’t trying to get out of our arrangement because she was worried I didn’t want to drive her around anymore. So, I asked why. And then I asked again. And again. And I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out why she was so hesitant to tell me until she said the words, “I’m going out tonight.”

They shouldn’t have hit me as hard as they did. The words shouldn’t have made a pit form in my stomach and knocked the air out of my lungs. My first thought shouldn’t have been no, and my first reaction shouldn’t have been jealousy. Why would I be jealous? She’s a grown, single woman who can do whatever she wants. Whoever she wants.

Besides, Elle and I are finished. Done. Kaput. It doesn’t matter if it still feels like my heart gets caught up in a whirlwind every time I’m near her, or that she’s still the only thing I see every time I close my eyes. She clearly doesn’t feel the same way, if she’s going out to meet other people.

And that’s her right. I know that.

It doesn’t make me feel any less shitty, though.

Fingers and long nails suddenly appear in my line of vision. They snap three times, the clicking sound reaching my ears and pulling me out of my head and back to the present.

“Hellooooo,” my little sister, Michelle, says, lowering her hand from my face when she sees she’s caught my attention. She gives me a concerned look. “What’s up with you? You’ve barely touched your food.”

I blink twice, suddenly remembering the plate sitting in front of me. It’s fully loaded with a variety of breakfast foods, including eggs, bacon, and hash browns, and while all of it would usually be gone by now, the thought of Elle waking up this morning next to some random fucker left me without much of an appetite.

Still, I don’t want to divulge what exactly is bothering me to Shelly because she’ll turn it into a whole thing, so I simply tell her, “I’m not hungry.”

She narrows her hazel eyes at me. “Did you eat something before coming here?”

“Yeah.” Nope.

She scoffs. “You knew we were meeting for brunch today, asshole.”

I ignore her and opt to change the subject. “So you said you had something important to tell me.”

At my reminder of the text she sent me earlier in the week, her entire disposition changes. Her back straightens, her

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