Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau

Author:Jackie Lau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Asian hero, humor, interracial romance, Toronto, next-door neighbors, foodie romance, romance Canada, Asian romance, inked hero, STEM heroine
Publisher: Jackie Lau Books
Published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Victor had knocked on Amy’s door at six o’clock last night, and it was now two in the afternoon the following day.

They’d been together for twenty straight hours.

True, about eight of those hours had been sleep—okay, seven, given what had happened at three in the morning—but still. It was a lot of time to spend with a person.

In fact, it was impressive that he’d managed to spend so much time with Amy and not feel like he was going completely out of his mind.

And that scared him.

Some time alone would do him good.

“So, what would you like to do now?” Amy asked. She was partially reclined on the couch, her legs in his lap.

“Actually, I’d...” He briefly considered saying he had work to do, but he didn’t feel like lying. He wouldn’t tell her everything, though. “I need a little time alone. To recharge. I’m used to spending most of my time, outside of work, by myself.”

Her smile never faltered as she swung her feet to the ground. “Of course! I totally understand. I have things to do, too.”

Yeah, she was great.

He was a lucky fucking bastard indeed.

He kissed her goodbye, then he made himself some coffee, went up to the second floor, and sank onto a chair in the sunroom. He’d spent most of the past five years alone in this house.

His brother’s house.

Victor had lived in a condo, but it had been important to Christian to own a house with a yard, and so he’d bought this place when their company started doing well, a few years before he died.

Once he was gone, no one had wanted to sell the house he’d loved, least of all Victor.

The first six months had been hell. Full of unbearable pain he couldn’t ease. He liked being able to fix things. But nothing would bring his brother back.

Sometimes, he wouldn’t sleep for days.

Once, he’d been washing dishes, and he’d gotten frustrated at a piece of food that wouldn’t come off—he’d forgotten to rinse his bowl after using it. He’d chucked the bowl against the wall, the wall he’d helped his brother paint, and it had shattered.

Which wasn’t like him at all.

So he’d made himself numb. That was the only way to go on. To manage.

Victor had kept his life small and ordered for years, and now, Amy was turning it upside down, making him do ridiculous shit like going out for gelato and having fun. Spending the morning in bed snuggling.

He didn’t want to pull back from her. He wanted to keep seeing her. She wanted more than just sex, and he liked that idea, too. She made him smile, and it had been a damn long time since he’d had anyone like her in his life.

But now that he’d spent twenty freaking hours with her and admitted to himself just how much she was disrupting his carefully-controlled world...well, these burgeoning feelings in his chest weren’t exactly comfortable. He sipped his coffee and stared at the cacti. One of them had died a couple years ago, and he’d been furious with himself for killing a fucking cactus.

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