Steele Brothers Christmas by Cheryl Douglas

Author:Cheryl Douglas [Douglas, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cheryl Douglas

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Brody barely said a word during dinner, and I knew if I allowed this to continue, his surly mood would ruin it for everyone.

After searching the resort, I finally found him in the games room. He was watching sports highlights with a drink at his side and the lights dimmed.

“Can we talk?” I asked, coming up behind him.

He shrugged. “I’m not really in the mood, but if you feel the need to talk, I guess I’ll listen.”

I gritted my teeth and claimed the leather club chair beside him before reaching for the remote to silence the TV. “Why’re you being such an ass?”

He swirled the scotch around in his glass before downing it. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I haven’t done a thing.”

“That’s just it. You’ve barely cracked a smile or said a word to anyone since we got here. You think I’m the only one who’s noticed?”

“Look,” he said, finally meeting my eyes. “You think this is easy for me? Being here with you? It’s not. But I promised my brother I’d be on my best behavior, that I wouldn’t say or do anything to ruin this for him or Jaci, and I’m trying to honor that promise. So maybe it would be best if you left now. Before we both say things we’ll regret.”

“I don’t understand you,” I said, trying to keep my temper in check. “I thought you wanted a clean slate. I know we’ll never be friends. Given our history, that’s probably too much to hope for, but what did I do to make you hate me?”

“You want to know what you did?” he asked, glaring at me. “You fell in love with someone else. How could you do that?” His voice was quiet and deadly. “You swore to me you could never love anyone else.”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. He was punishing me because I wasn’t willing to go on being his booty call indefinitely? “What did you expect me to do, Brody? Wait for you forever? You said yourself you didn’t know if you’d ever want to get married and have kids, so it wasn’t even a question of waiting it out until you decided the time was right. You couldn’t assure me the time would ever be right!”

I was glad we were alone, sequestered from the rest of the guests, so we could have this out once and for all.

“Yeah, and you sure as hell didn’t waste any time finding someone else, did you?”

“What are you talking about? You and I had been broken up almost two years by the time I met Stephan.”

“Yeah, but we were still having sex. So we weren’t really broken up.”

“Is that how you define a relationship? Just because you’re still having sex with someone, you’re in a meaningful relationship?” Even after all these years, I still didn’t understand the way his mind worked.

“With you, yeah. ‘Cause I knew as long as you were sleeping with me, there was no one else. That gave me… hope.

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