My Faire Lady by Janci Patterson

Author:Janci Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Garden Ninja Books
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Gabby

After Sean storms out, Will drops his head into his hands and my heart sinks even lower than it already had during that entire calamity. Which puts it somewhere around my ankles now, I think.

“I can see why you didn’t want to get together with them,” I finally manage.

“Yeah,” Will says, his hands still covering his face. “I knew that was going to happen.”

I somehow doubt he knew all that was going to happen. That whole thing was an unmitigated disaster that had to have been even beyond Will’s creative imagination. But he did know it was going to go badly. He’s told me that pretty much every time the possibility of hanging out with Sean and Audra has come up, and I saw it on his face today when they showed up with plates of food.

I reach over and touch his arm gently. “You know I’m totally over what happened with Sean.” And I am. The budding feelings I might have had for him—feelings that were really only me trying to not have feelings for the engaged-at-the-time Will—were long gone before Will and I even got together. Even the anger I had at Sean for using me like that is something I haven’t felt for years.

But clearly it’s not something Will is over. Which makes sense—there’s a lot more history there, and a lot more hurt.

“I shouldn’t care anymore,” he says. “But I’m still so pissed at him for lying to me back then.” Will sighs and drops his hands. “I used to be the most upset about him using you, and probably I should still be more mad about that on your behalf. You know, defending your honor and all that.”

He sounds like he feels terrible that after three years he’s not ready to strangle his brother for going on a date with me under false pretenses. I squeeze his arm and smile. “I’m glad you’re not still as mad about that. Because my honor has been over it for a very long time.”

Will takes my hand in his and leans back in his chair. “I should be over all of it. And able to talk to my brother without being an asshole.”

“You were not the asshole in that conversation.” My anger flares at thinking of Sean telling Will to “man up.” Like he has any idea of how hard Will works and all that he’s going through—

“Maybe not the only one,” Will says, cutting into round two of my internal rant. “But I could have handled that way better. I mean, the guy got engaged, and I couldn’t keep my mouth shut and just let them be happy.”

I shrug. “We did keep our mouths shut for a long time, and I think you were right—it’s not fair that we need to keep this lie for him. Especially if he’s actually going to marry her.”

Will gives me a skeptical but amused look. “Even you can’t be defending how I went about that. I saw the look on your face.

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