The Garden (Lavender Shores Book 2) by Rosalind Abel

Author:Rosalind Abel [Abel, Rosalind]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wings of Ink Publications, LLC
Published: 2017-07-24T18:30:00+00:00

After cleaning up, we ate pizza and ice cream on the couch as we binge-watched episodes of Sense8. I fell asleep. At some point in the night, Gilbert woke me up and led me to bed, and I fell asleep again in his arms.

As the light fell across us when we woke, things had changed.

We didn’t need to say it. It hung heavy over us. As we got dressed and headed out, we barely spoke, and I wondered if I looked as sad as he seemed.

He pulled up to the spa, and I opened the door to get out. He grabbed my hand, holding me in place. I looked back at him.

“One more.” He didn’t ask permission, just pressed his lips to mine. He shuddered. Or maybe it was me. Then he broke the kiss and settled back into the driver’s seat. “Bye, Walden. I’ll see you in Lavender Shores at the wedding.”

My heart was breaking.

It couldn’t be.

Gilbert and I were little more than a hookup. We had some fun. It wasn’t love. It was friendship. Friends who’d shared their souls and some earth-shattering sex, but we were just friends. We’d decided.

My heart could not be breaking.

“Yeah. See you then.”

He gave a forced smile.

I shut the door, flipped my bag over my shoulder, then watched him drive off.

We’d decided not to exchange numbers. That had been my suggestion. I had a feeling I’d text or call in a weak moment. Say something that would ruin what we had, and I couldn’t take the risk of doing something to lose him. Even if I couldn’t have him, I wouldn’t lose him.

I’d get myself under control by the time he came back for Andrew and Joel’s wedding. I had till the end of May. That was enough time to switch my view of Gilbert Bryant from sex god to nothing more than a friend.

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