Friend Zone by Nicole Blanchard

Author:Nicole Blanchard [Blanchard, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Charlie

Liam paused, breathing heavily. “You’re right. I have to get to the interview and you have to work.”

I nodded even though everything inside me was screaming to keep going. I wanted those clothes off him, wanted to know what it felt like to have his bare skin against mine. More than anything, I wanted to continue what we started, but the annoying blaring from my phone had broken the mood.

“Let me get that,” I said, then awkwardly maneuvered to my feet.

“Tell whoever it is to go to hell,” Liam shouted at my back as I padded to the kitchen on wobbly legs.

Oh my God, I mouthed to myself when I was out of view. I nearly tripped twice as I made my way to the island to answer my phone.

As I hopped on one foot, I swiped at the screen and pressed it to my ear. Whoever it was had better be on their deathbed. “Hello?”

“Charlie, thank God. We have an emergency.”

Liam walked out and now that I could ogle him without repercussion, my eyes feasted on the way his shirt accentuated the lean muscles of his chest. I’d been this close to having my mouth all over him. This close.

“It better be,” I said under my breath and Liam smirked.

“What?” Layla asked.

I turned away from him so I wouldn’t be tempted to drag him back for another kiss. “Nothing. What’s up?”

“My mother is forcing me to attend a mixer tomorrow night with some of her partners from the firm. I need a buffer. Can you come? I promise all the wine you can possibly drink.”

I thought of Liam and what we’d come so close to doing…how much I wanted to do it again. “I’m not sure. Where is it?”

She rattled off the name of an exclusive restaurant. “You have to come,” she said, sounding desperate, which was out of character for Layla, who valued control above all else. “You can’t leave me alone with Dash. His whole family is going to be there apparently and you know how he loves to torment me.”

Dash Hampton was Layla's mortal enemy and competitor in all things from parking spaces and lab partners to grades and prestigious honor society positions. They’d been going at it, and not in a good way, ever since he beat her out as Valedictorian their senior year of high school. He and Liam had become friends since Dash liked to hang around specifically to torture Layla at every opportunity. It would nearly be worth going to the mixer just to see the two of them argue. Ember and I used to joke that whenever the two of them were in a room together, it was like getting free entertainment for the evening.

"Why is he even going to be there?" I asked as Liam came up behind me and pressed a kiss to my neck. I nearly dropped my phone as pleasure zinged across my nerve endings. My eyes shuttered closed. He had to stop doing that or we were both going to be late.

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