Jade (Corked and Tapped Book 4) by Becca Jameson

Author:Becca Jameson [Jameson, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Becca Jameson Publishing
Published: 2019-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Jade was shaking now, tears falling, hands twisting.

Brody grabbed her and pulled her against his chest. His hand wove into her ponytail, dislodging it entirely. He kissed the top of her head.

In a moment, she felt Carter’s heat at her back, and then his hands were on her hips. “Have you been beating yourself up over this for five years?”

She nodded against Brody’s chest and turned her head to the side, flattening her cheek to his pecs so she could speak. “It all made more sense to me after I left. I was depressed and alone and confused, but I also understood why you wanted to break up. And I made a decision to never face either of you again.”

Carter’s hand smoothed up her back. “Babe, that makes me feel awful. I should have tried harder to find you. I should have been there for you.”

She inched away from Brody and eased out from between them. Touching them was more than she could handle. She wrapped her arms around her center and stepped out of their reach again.

Carter continued. “I was confused too. I was hurting. My best friend in the world left for boot camp, and my second best friend changed her number and wouldn’t see me. I went into my own shell eventually and forced myself to move on with my life.”

“You must have been pissed at me,” she murmured.

He shook his head. “No. I totally understood. It was too awkward. Brody asked the impossible of you. I had tried to talk him out of it, but he wouldn’t listen to me.”

Brody rolled his eyes at Carter and then met her gaze. “Because I could see he loved you too. I was an idiot, unwilling to acknowledge everything that was right in front of my face.”

Carter reached for Brody and set a hand on his shoulder. “Stop it. Enough beating yourself up. We were young. We didn’t understand our feelings for each other or for Jade. It was confusing.”

Jade glanced back and forth between them while they stared into each other’s eyes. They loved each other. That was obvious.

Brody nodded. His voice was calm when he replied. “I get that now. You know I do.”

Carter sighed and looked hard at Brody. “There was no way I could suddenly fill your shoes with your girlfriend while you went to the other side of the world and fought in a war. The idea was crazy from the get-go. I couldn’t do that to you, man. I would not.” He glanced at Jade. “Nor to you.”

Jade recalled her previous theory. “So, you didn’t hunt me down and bring me here tonight so I could choose between the two of you. You brought me here so you could tell me the two of you are together. You wanted to tell me yourselves.”

She glanced around the room, remembering how Brody had unlocked the front door and wandered through the place like it was his own. It was. He lived here too.

Both men’s eyes were wide with shock, though she couldn’t understand why.

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