Let Me Heal You: Beautifully Broken Book 3 by Wolfe Samantha

Author:Wolfe, Samantha [Wolfe, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jensen

"I'm going to ask Lydia to marry me," Andy announced. It was just the two of us standing on the deck off the back of his house. The girls were in the kitchen chatting, and Andy had dragged me out here to talk. Now I knew why. I was stunned speechless for a moment. We didn't sit around and talk about his relationship with Lydia, but I figured this was inevitable. I just hadn't expected this so soon. It took a year for them to move in together. They took their time with everything.

"Congratulations, brother," I told him, and he glanced over at me with a smile. I raised my can of soda up, and he lifted his beer bottle. We clinked them against each other and took health swallows of our drinks. He stared at me with an expectant expression. "What?" I asked, perplexed by his stare.

"You're not going to fuck with me about it?" he asked with an incredulous smile.

"Why would I do that?" I asked him with a shake of my head.

"Oh, I don't know," he said after a laugh. "Maybe because not that long ago you told me you were going to be a bachelor for the rest of your life, and that marriage was for fucking chumps."

"When the hell did I say that?" I asked him, taken aback. I didn't remember saying that at all.

"I think it was my New Years Eve party, right after I told you I was thinking about moving in with Lydia."

"I was drunk off my ass," I laughed. "Why the fuck would you listen to anything I said that night?"

"You told me that right before you hooked up with that blond chick that came with one of Lydia's girlfriends." He pointed his beer at me. "And I know you were drunk, because you barfed in my bathtub."

I shook my head in response, and we lapsed into silence. I felt like we were talking about a stranger, like I didn't even recognize who that person was anymore. "I didn't know..." I trailed off as I stared off across Andy's tiny backyard.

"Didn't know what?" Andy asked next to me. I hadn't realized I had said that out loud.

"I...I didn't know what the fuck I was talking about," I said vehemently as I turned and met his eyes. "I'm glad you didn't listen to me. You and Lydia belong together."

"I never knew you felt that way about my relationship with Lydia," Andy said quietly. "I just assumed you didn't care."

"Why would you think I didn't care?" I asked, feeling a pang in my gut. "I never said that."

"You've never shown any interest, never asked about it. I just assumed."

A painful lump suddenly filled my throat. He thought I didn't care, and I felt like the shittiest friend on the planet. I'd never asked because, deep down, I had wanted what he had, I just hadn't been able to admit it to myself until now.

"I was jealous," I said in the barest whisper.

"What?" Andy asked when he couldn't make out my words.

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