Let's Be Just Friends (A New Adult Novella) by Camilla Isley

Author:Camilla Isley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love, friendship, chick lit, chicklit, boston, best friends, beach read, harvard, college romance, friends with benefits
Published: 2016-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Ten

Come With Me

Ethan felt nervous as he drove his black Mercedes through town toward Rose’s apartment. His sister had just called him to tell him she was back. Georgiana had decided to leave France two weeks early to be with their sister, Vicky, and help her in the final wedding preparations. Ethan was happy to have his sister back home. But he was more scared of the three-hundred pound gorilla she’d brought along with her—Tyler Bronfman.

Somehow, Boston felt too small for the two of them, and he didn’t like the idea of him anywhere near Rose. Things were going great between them. But the thought of Tyler and Rose seeing each other every day at school, and possibly outside, too, irked Ethan in a way he wasn’t prepared to handle. He’d known he’d been in trouble with Rose from the night they’d met. She’d stirred something in him, she had a power over him that not even Sabrina had had. He usually wasn’t the jealous type, but with Rose he felt possessive in a way he was ready to admit wasn’t normal. And Tyler’s return spiked this feeling to new unchartered peaks.

When Rose opened her door, she had puffy eyes, as if she’d just been crying.

“Are you okay?” Ethan asked as he entered her apartment.

He immediately noticed a vivid red apple standing on the kitchen island. Instinctively, he didn’t like it. The thing was too red, too in-your-face; he found it almost offensive. He liked it even less than Rose’s puffy red eyes, although he wasn’t sure why. Not until he saw a Fauchon chocolate box standing next to it.

“I’m okay,” Rose said.

“Found your red thing?” Ethan asked, aware of the edge in his voice.

“It was a present,” Rose replied warily.

“From Paris?”

Rose nodded.

“How did he know you were looking for something red? I thought you two weren’t talking.”

“And we weren’t, but he just knows me.”

That was an even worse explanation, and Ethan lashed out. “Not twenty-four hours in the country, and he’s already been here? What did he want?

“Ethan, please don’t get jealous. I had enough of a bad morning.”

“Why? What happened?” Ethan felt his hands curl into fists and his knuckles go white. But he was mostly able to control himself and not punch the wall as he listened to Rose’s tale.

***

Ethan’s face didn’t look good. Rose had wanted to tell him everything, but looking at the cold fury mounting inside him right now, she wasn’t sure she’d done the right thing. His jaw was set tight and it was twitching while his hands were turned into fists, and he was clenching them so badly his knuckles had turned white.

“So let me get this straight,” he said. “The only reason why you’re not with Tyler is because you’re too scared he’d break your heart. Otherwise, you would’ve already set off with him into the sunset.”

“Ethan, that’s not what I said.” Rose felt panic rising in her chest.

“I must’ve gone deaf, then, because that’s exactly what I heard.”

They glared at each other, neither able to talk.

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