The One I Love to Hate_An Enemies to Lovers Romance by Amanda Weaver

Author:Amanda Weaver [Weaver, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07LD9TX35
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2019-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

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“You think I set this up?”

Something passed in Jess’s eyes, but it wasn’t guilt or panic. If he didn’t know any better, Alex would have said she looked hurt. It was the first time since he’d turned to find her standing inside the door of the bar that he felt anything other than a blinding sense of betrayal. Betrayal of what, he couldn’t even answer.

His head had been a mess since last night in Jess’s kitchen. Although he liked PaperGirl, and valued their online connection, he’d been even less inclined to meet her in real life. It felt...wrong, somehow, in the wake of his encounter with Jess. But then she’d needed someone and he’d felt compelled to reach out, as a friend, to help. After all the time they’d spent talking, it was the least he could do for her.

But now somehow, inexplicably, Jess had shown up again to fuck with his head, and possibly his life. Because the years had taught him that “coincidental” encounters with women rarely ever were.

“It wouldn’t be the first time somebody’s manipulated their way into my life.”

She scoffed. “Of course. Because everybody in the whole world is out here scheming to get a piece of Alex Drake.”

He shrugged. “Well, actually, yes, in my experience.”

“God, you really are arrogant.” She took another step closer, close enough to poke her finger into his chest. “Listen here. You might have women falling all over themselves to lure you into traps, but I’m not one of them, understand?”

Somewhere deep in his chest, buried inside this burning knot of anger and confusion, something eased. Because he did know that. He had no idea what the hell was happening here, but weirdly, even when they were furious and yelling at each other, somehow, he knew he could fundamentally trust Jess. He’d always known that.

That still didn’t answer any of the hundreds of questions crowding his brain.

“Then how the hell did you get here?”

Her dark eyes burned with fury as she glared up at him. “The same way you did.”

“Excuse me?” An unfamiliar voice cut into the brittle tension surrounding them.

Alex and Jess both turned to look at the bartender. His personable smile and polite demeanor had vanished. “I’m going to need you two to take this outside.”

Shit. They were shouting at each other in the middle of goddamned Bemelmans Bar. This was not the kind of bar that witnessed fights. Every other patron in the bar was gaping openly at them. Even the piano player had stopped playing to stare.

Color flooded Jess’s cheeks and she took a step back, her chest rising and falling as she fumed. “Not a problem. I was just leaving.”

Then she spun around and strode out the way she’d come.

“Jess, wait!” He was stuck scrambling for his coat, digging in his pocket for a wad of cash to throw on the bar, before he could sprint out after her. She’d only made it a dozen feet or so down the sidewalk, shoulders hunched against the cold, hair whipping in the sharp breeze, as she marched up Madison Avenue.

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