Hating The Best Man: An Opposites Attract Billionaire Romance (Hating Him series Book 2) by Natalie Wrye

Author:Natalie Wrye [Wrye, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wrye Writing
Published: 2016-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

DAY 2—7:02PM

Tripping Out! Offices

LUKAS

The rain is falling harder than ever.

Water falls over my head as I exit the office, turning a partly cloudy day into a dreary dusk.

I watch the texture of the sky thicken like a gelatin, growing coagulated and clotted like a steely, open wound. Not only is the sky crying, it’s bleeding, and each drop of pale liquid is another symbol of pain—another sign of an injury gone unhealed.

I stare upwards.

It’s me; I’m the injury: the thorn in everyone’s side, leaking destruction on everything I touch. The entire day I felt like an unwelcomed sore—an impending infection that would only fuck up the party. Like this is new. Because come on… Who the fuck am I kidding?

I always was some sort of sore thumb, sticking out in places that I didn’t belong.

As a kid, I’d tried to just blend in… and with Foxx and Chris at my side, I was able to feel a little less sore—a little less odd. That hasn’t been the case today… or yesterday… or for the past four months.

Foxx and I still haven’t talked since… Ana, and though we hadn’t said more than ten words to each other yesterday in the hospital, I could feel his anger—his rage.

I’m surprised he didn’t try to beat the shit out of me.

But I know why he didn’t take it further.

Because of Kat. Because of Ana. Because of his family—a family that I’m sure does not include me anymore. Family. Hmph. Today, I actually got the chance to meet the rest of Elena’s family.

I dropped Elena off at Tampa General today and practically into the hands of her recently arrived parents, a ragtag duo clad in tacky colorful clothing. Elena’s father is a tall, hunching man with a pervasive smile in his eyes, her mother a tiny pixie with a platinum pixie cut to match.

A happy but odd pair, they seemed to be.

They showered Ana with hugs and kisses, harangued Elena within an inch of her life about visiting more often and when they’d heard that Kat was apparently too sick to visit that morning, they clucked for half an hour on end, taking an opportunity away from Ana’s hospital room to buy “get well” souvenirs for Kat from the lobby gift shop as if Kat had never been to Tampa.

I warmed to them immediately.

They possessed a fondness that was ever-present, a strange but obvious parental warmth that was conspicuously absent from my own childhood, even at first glance.

They wore it like a badge of honor.

The awkward couple clearly cared about their three young daughters… but they were slightly aloof—wacky in this weird way that didn’t reflect the seriousness of Ana’s situation.

For God’s sake, they had showed up to the hospital in Disney- embroidered clothing as if this were a vacation.

Not that I ever knew what a “normal” family dynamic was in the first place.

Foxx and Chris are all that remain of the family I once had, and with Ana’s accident and the Elena tryst, whatever

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