Texting My Dad's Best Friend: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance (A Man Who Knows What He Wants (Standalone)) by Flora Ferrari
Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-04T18:30:00+00:00
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Damien
I lower the heat, allowing the sauce to simmer, and then check my phone again. Itâs stupid since I checked it thirty seconds ago, but this day has got me on edge.
I spent the morning at the restaurant, recording a batch of thirty-second cooking tip videos for Danielle to upload to our social media.
Iâm already thinking of the restaurant like that, as ours, though. Technically, sheâs more like a freelance employee working through her company.
But none of that matters. Every time I think about it, it becomes we and ours.
Itâs difficult not to think of my entire life like that, my apartments and my fortune, my heart and my love, even if I thought maybe I wasnât capable of that anymore. Iâve never felt it.
But how else am I supposed to describe this feeling?
Calm down, I warn myself. Donât get ahead of yourself.
But Iâve had over a week to diffuse this possessive hunger inside of me, for it to wilt away, and it hasnât.
It wonât.
She means too much to me already.
The instrumental music Iâm playing pauses as a text comes through, my phone vibrating from the kitchen island.
I grab it quickly, as I do when I get a text these days.
It almost makes me laugh to think about the days before Danielle, when Iâd happily ignore my phone for hours or days, with no thought about who was texting me or why.
Iâd focus on my work, nothing else, because no woman ever made me feel anything the way she does.
And now sheâs all I can think about. Cooking this meal this evening has only been easy because I know itâs for Danielle.
Iâm outside.
Coming now.
She was paranoid about walking up to my apartment building, so she arranged to wait across the street.
Iâm supposed to walk into the lobby and grab my mail. Then wait down the hall for her to let her up the elevator.
It all makes me feel so dirty and deceitful, which is why I promised myself we have to tell Max soon.
I do as we discussed, collecting a few letters as I look out the floor-to-ceiling windows across the street.
A light rain is falling, the droplets sliding down the glass, distorting her image.
Even so, I have to resist the urge to sprint out there. Even in her raincoat with her hood pulled up, I can make out her shape, hips, and massage-me-now breasts.
I canât see her face, but I know how her lips taste and feel as though they were shaped specifically for me.
Walking back down the hallway, I nod to the buildingâs security guard. Iâve told him a guest will be arriving, as well as her description, so he wonât challenge her in the lobby.
Iâm sorry, Max, I think. I wish we could stop.
Thatâs a lie. Iâll never stop wanting her.
I wait at the end of the hallway, near the elevator.
Danielle walks down about half a minute later, pulling her hood off, revealing her damp wavy hair, and rain droplets on her cheeks.
Surging forward, I pull her into my arms.
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