Rules of Convenience: A Queen City Romance by Munn H.L

Author:Munn, H.L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Published by H.L. Munn
Published: 2024-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

22

ARE THERE MARGARITAS INVOLVED? IF SO, I’M BUSY FOREVER

The next day, I arrive at Little Bites Café, a small boutique coffee shop Lauren, Sam, and I normally meet at, on the third Sunday of the month, for coffee and croissants. The older we get, the busier life gets, but this is a tradition we’ve never let go of.

I’m first to show up so I grab our usual table closest to the pastry window. I’m not sure how long I’ll be kept waiting since, when Riley and I left the club last night, Lauren and Sam were only a handful of shots away from making their table a stage to dance on. I had decided a quick exit before they pulled me into their drunken shenanigans would be my best chance of waking up relatively sober this morning.

Plus I needed to keep my wits about me. I was already so close to kissing Riley, the thought now of how close his lips were to mine makes my cheeks burn crimson with embarrassment. I wanted so badly to reach up to kiss him, to know what it would feel like to kiss him.

He had played the part of my doting boyfriend perfectly. My friends were smitten with him, it was so believable I almost started to forget it was an act, but I can’t deny the feeling of smoldering flames low in my belly when our bodies were connected. I just wasn’t sure if he felt any of the same or maybe because it’s been so long since I’d been touched it was my body’s natural reaction to it and had nothing to do with Riley.

But he had to have felt something, right? I heard it in the way he practically growled in my ear last night when I was pressed against his that I could literally feel his attraction for me. However, that was short lived when he readjusted my body away from his. I shouldn’t read into any of this. I shake my head as if the motion can physically shake these thoughts away.

This was an arrangement and nothing more. I will scuff out any kindling of feelings before it catches fire and consumes me in its inevitable firestorm. Riley Anderson isn’t looking for anything and neither am I.

This was the deal.

My thoughts start to stray into what if territory.

What if he felt something?

What if it could be real?

What. fucking. If.

The sound of bells above the café door pulls me out of my momentary fantasy of more and brings me back to reality. I spot the two zombie-like females that resemble Sam and Lauren walking in with sunglasses covering what were probably bloodshot eyes. Exactly what I needed to stop the daydreaming of what could be with Riley.

“You guys look like hell.”

My two friends whimper in unison. It takes thirty minutes of caffeine intake and half a dozen croissants shared between the three of us before my friends morph back into a semblance of their normal selves.

“So,” Sam purrs. “Riley.” Eying me with skepticism over her cup as she takes a sip of her latte.

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