Never Say Yes To Your Best Friend: An Enemies To Lovers Rom Com (I said Yes) by Lindsey Hart

Author:Lindsey Hart [Hart, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Passion House Publishing
Published: 2024-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter ten

Mont

“Marriage is a time-honored institution. It’s a great agreement between two people, and it doesn’t always have to involve emotions. Oftentimes, it’s best when it doesn’t. Happiness can still be achieved with an acceptable amount of risk. There are more benefits than drawbacks all around when done correctly.”

Two minutes into dinner, and I already regret bringing Connor with me. He’s one of my best friends, but he’s from a different kind of family. My parents are exceptionally normal for rich people, while his parents were the triple D kind. Distant, dysfunctional, and desensitized. They treated Connor like he was more of an object—an heir to the family fortune—than a kid. He didn’t get sent to boarding school, but he was in private schools, and he hung out with other kids who weren’t getting what they needed at home. They formed a sort of pack. I’ve met his friends from high school, and they’re all kind of emotionally detached from the world. Another good D word. They’re good at running their own empires, and they have great business sense. But emotions? They don’t do emotions.

It’s different from how I don’t do them. I do emotions. Just not well. And that’s not even true. I’m honestly great at some of them.

I feel like they’re just a different brand of being lost when compared to me. They don’t believe in love in any sort of capacity. Marriage and children? Yes. They’re on board. Just not the way I would want to be.

My parents are still in love. They have their quirks, but they respect each other, and they’ve made a thirty-five-year marriage seem like it was easy when I know it wasn’t. Connor’s parents, on the other hand? They might be married, but I know neither his mom nor his dad has been faithful to the marriage. They care a lot about what their standing in society looks like, so on the surface, they’re the perfect kind of family, but underneath, it’s all rot and sadness.

I met Connor in my first year of college, and it didn’t take long for him to confess everything. Basically, on day one, over the first beer. He just looked at me, and with that strange frankness I’ve always admired, he told me about what a fucked up childhood he had and how his family was a hot mess on the underbelly.

Usually, he doesn’t get into it with strangers, but after our crab appetizers arrived, I admitted how Evilla and I met. She and Genevieve shared a few guilty looks about that, but then they started laughing, and I joined in. Any hard feelings I had about the switch-up have been lost. I needed to learn a few things, and laughing at myself was one of them. I’ve never been able to do that. Since I then had to admit the rest of what I did, I suppose it opened up a door for Connor to expound on his theories about relationships.

The real Genevieve sits next to the window and across from me, on the same side of the booth with Evilla.

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