Her Best Friend by Sarah Mayberry

Author:Sarah Mayberry [Mayberry, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Category
ISBN: 9780373783717
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-04-12T23:00:00+00:00

IT WASN’T UNTIL he got back to the apartment that Quinn remembered he’d planned to check out that morning and move into his parents’ place. He was so tired that for a few minutes he contemplated booking in for another night just so he could crawl straight into bed. Then he told himself to man up and went to his room to pack. It didn’t take long and within fifteen minutes he was at the front desk handing over his credit card.

Familiar smells rushed at him when he opened the door to his old family home. His mother’s homemade potpourri, his father’s pipe tobacco, furniture polish. The place was dark and he dumped his overnight bag in the hall and did a quick lap of the house, opening curtains and blinds as he went. He pushed open his old bedroom door last and stood in the doorway staring at his single bed and the various movie and sports posters covering his walls.Hello, 1997.

He crossed to the window and pulled the curtains wide. Outside, the straggly privet hedge still struggled to create a privacy barrier between this house and the Parkers’ next door. He stared at Amy’s old bedroom window, facing his across the way.

He’d almost done something really stupid today. If Amy hadn’t stepped back when she did…

He unlocked the window and gave the frame a thump with his closed fist before attempting to push it up. It stuck for a moment, then gave in a rush. Cool air flowed into the room as he pushed the window all the way open.

He breathed in the smell of wet earth and green things. Maybe this…thing he had for Amy was a reaction to being back home again after all these years. An X-rated form of nostalgia.

Or maybe he’d never quite gotten over the crush he’d had all those years ago, and it was only now that he was getting a divorce that he was allowing himself to acknowledge the attraction again.

Or maybe he simply needed to grab a good night’s sleep and wake up with some much-needed perspective. Because at the end of the day, if it came down to a battle between short-term lust and long-term friendship, friendship was the winner every time. Right?

Right?

He returned to the entrance hall to get his bag then grabbed some sheets from the hall cupboard to make up his bed. He hadn’t slept in a single bed since he’d left home. He wasn’t looking forward to reliving the experience.

He took a few minutes to examine his injuries in the bathroom mirror before he showered. The bruise on his face wasn’t as bad as he’d thought and while his ribs were sore, they weren’t overly painful. Not cracked, then, he figured.

He showered quickly, then walked naked back into his old bedroom. His bed sagged in the middle as it took his weight. He rolled onto his side and closed his eyes.

A few hours of shut-eye and the world would right itself.

A great theory, but as he drifted toward sleep, images from the day slipped into his unguarded mind.

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