No One Else: The Ladies Who Brunch Book 2 by Harlow James

Author:Harlow James [James, Harlow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

“Oh my God, is that a hickey?” Noelle shrieks as I take my seat at brunch Sunday morning.

“What?” I look down and pull up the neckline of my tank top, cursing myself for not changing my shirt when I knew it would ride down and expose the purple flesh mark Ethan left on the top of my left breast. “Shit.”

“I take that as a yes, then?”

Slinking back in my chair, I take the mimosa that Charlotte hands to me and then drain half the glass. “Ethan fucked me three times Friday night.”

Penelope smirks across the table. “And did he deliver on his promises?”

“Tenfold,” I admit to cheers from my girls.

“Glad the man can back up his words then.”

“It was incredible—so raw, passionate, and hot. God, the man is so fucking hot. He makes me forget to think.”

“Those are the ones that are trouble.” Noelle smiles knowingly around her glass.

“I know. He didn’t stay the night though. He had to pick up his son from his mom’s early on Saturday morning.”

“That’s understandable. Did you want him to stay the night?”

“Yes, but I also thought it would be against the rules of our arrangement.”

Charlotte leans forward in her seat. “Like I said, I spoke to Damien and told him not to say anything to Nick.”

“Thank you.”

“But my follow-up question is, did you two ever have rules to begin with?”

“Just that we weren’t telling anyone about us, but obviously that’s out of the bag now. You girls know, and now Damien does too.”

“That’s not very many people, and people that would understandably be aware anyway.”

“I know, but I want more with him. He agreed to my ultimatum of getting to know each other, but I don’t know how he interpreted that exactly.”

Noelle nods. “I get what you’re saying. You guys are in that very fragile state after sex where you’re definitely into one another, but it’s too early to talk about what this means.”

“Exactly.”

“What would Dr. St. Clair say?” Penelope asks teasingly.

And I answer her without much contemplation. “She would tell her client to ask him and explain her feelings, to be direct, so she isn’t wasting her time. But Amelia, the woman who still is figuring out her love life and how to navigate the fragile circumstances of this arrangement, isn’t sure that’s the best idea just yet.”

“Why not?” Charlotte prods.

“Because he has a kid, which makes the stakes for him much more serious.” The girls nod. “But all I know right now is that I’ve never had a man insist on picking me up from somewhere at night so I would get home safe, let alone a man that I feel this intensely about. When I’m with him, he consumes me.”

“We all saw the way he looked at you the other night, the way he pulled you away from us to get you alone. I don’t think you’re crazy for feeling that way.” Noelle says.

“His words say one thing, but his actions say something else entirely, you know? Like eating lunch together.

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