Mostly Loathing You: A Steamy Enemies to Lovers Romance (Just Peachy Book 2) by Nicole Ryan

Author:Nicole Ryan [Ryan, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NRC Publishing
Published: 2024-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

do I look like your own personal fuck toy?

ask nicely

fuck off

come over tonight…please

was already planning on it princess. see you at 6

My doorbell rings at 6:00 PM sharp. Despite expecting Liam, the sudden noise still causes me to jump. Sage has been working late at her new bartending job the past few nights, so I’ve grown accustomed to stark silence in the evening. The aroma of pasta sauce and cheese carries from the kitchen into the entryway along with me.

The moment I open the door, Liam walks inside with a backpack slung over his shoulder. As he enters my space, I step into him without a second thought, my face pressing against his T-shirt-clad chest. He wraps his arms around my shoulders as he presses his lips to my forehead.

“You’re awfully sweet today…should I be scared?” He laughs as he pulls back slightly to look down at me.

My emotional exhaustion melts the moment his eyes meet mine. I push his chest in a joking manner as I step out of his grasp.

“Actually, yes. You should be scared,” I say as we step into the kitchen, where the smell of lasagna is far more pungent.

“You…cooked?” The shocked look on his face is almost enough to invoke my anger, but even I know that cooking isn’t exactly my forte.

“Don’t jump off the balcony quite yet—it’s a frozen lasagna.”

The relief that I see physically wash over Liam makes me laugh, but I try to curb it because the last thing I need is him thinking he’s funny.

“So…” he says as he steps toward the stove, where the lasagna sits fresh out of the oven, the smell of the bubbling cheese wafting into the space. “What is the occasion?”

“What do you mean?”

“You’ve never invited me over.”

“Not true, you’ve been over here dozens of times.” I wave my hand in dismissal.

“Yeah…with Sage. You have never requested I be here…”

“Oh,” I mouth with little bravado.

The weight of my asking him to come over hasn’t hit me until now, but as he steps into me again, I feel it melt down my back.

“It’s not a bad thing that you want me here, Hannah.” Liam pushes my hair behind my ear as his eyes meet mine. “What’s going on?”

“Shit day.” I’m typically rather forthcoming, but something feels uncomfortably intimate about the way he’s looking at me right now.

I’m thankful he doesn’t pry or try to push me to open up; he just steps toward the cabinet that houses the dinnerware and pulls out two dishes. I would question why he knows his way around here so well, but then I remember his friendship with Sage.

I don’t know why I’ve never really felt jealous of them. They’re together a lot, but I know it’s not an issue. Whether it’s due to Sage’s insistence in shutting him down in those early months of knowing each other or her not-so-thinly veiled crush on his best friend Gabe, I’ve never questioned if she’s something to worry about.

Not to say I should be worried about him being interested in another woman.

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