My Brother's Best Friend - A Second Chance Romance by Layla Valentine

Author:Layla Valentine [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-10T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Tyler

I have no idea how Mel is going to react to seeing me as I pull into the parking lot of her apartment, nearly a week after we had sex. She hastily told me that she would call me as she rushed out immediately after, but I haven’t gotten so much as a text from her since, and I’m not in the habit of waiting around for other people to make a move.

My phone still has her birthday saved in her contact info—something I added five years ago and never got around to deleting—and it’s today. She didn’t mentioned anything about it during our lunch, but if I remember correctly from one of our first conversations, she’s not someone who enjoys huge parties, and thus doesn’t like to make a big deal of her birthday.

I knew I couldn’t just let the date come and go without doing something for her, however, so I had my secretary look up her address. It had taken a few cheap background checks on dubiously trustworthy websites, but when he finally got an apartment number here in San Bravado that was just down the street from Shape Up, I decided to take the chance on that address.

Champagne and flowers in hand, I head to her apartment complex, arriving shortly after eight p.m., and head up to the third floor of the building to find her unit.

I knock on the door three times, waiting several moments for a response and not getting one. Mel must be out, which shouldn’t surprise me. Perhaps a group of her coworkers has taken her out for a birthday celebration, or maybe she’s having dinner with her brother. Hopefully, none of her male clients have asked to take her out for the special occasion.

After knocking again, waiting, and deciding definitively that Mel isn’t home yet, a memory comes back to me—something she told me the first time we met. When she’d first moved in, she’d locked herself out of her apartment so many times that she’d decided to hide a key. At the time, I’d thought it was cute, endearing. I doubt, of course, that she’s done the same thing at this place—after all, nearly five years had passed, and she’s now a successful young professional rather than a scatterbrained young girl moving to a new city.

I can’t imagine that she’s hidden a key outside her apartment, but the only way to find out is to pull up the mat and check…

Turns out, Mel does still keep a spare key under her doormat.

Closing the door behind me, I begin stripping petals off the roses, creating a path from the doorway of her apartment to her bedroom.

Just as I finish up, I hear the sound of a key in the door. Mel isn’t talking, so I assume she’s alone, which is a relief. She swings the door open and yelps in surprise when she sees the rose petals. A moment later, she’s standing in the doorway, looking awestruck and confused.

“What are you doing here?” she breathes, clutching her chest and trying to catch her breath from the shock.

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