The Space Between Love & Hate: An Enemies to Lovers, Best Friend's Brother Romance (The Space Between Duet Book 1) by Melissa Toppen

Author:Melissa Toppen [Toppen, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love triangle romance, best friend's brother romance, brother's best friend romance, enemies to lovers romance, forbidden romance, secret romance
Publisher: Author Melissa Toppen
Published: 2023-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Sutton

I don’t know what time I finally moved from the guest room back to my room, only that the sun had not yet broken the horizon when I did.

Crawling into bed with Olivia felt wrong for reasons my tired brain didn’t fully understand, but the feeling didn’t last long. My head no more than hit the pillow and I was out. My body and brain fucking spent.

It’s late when I wake up. I don’t know how I know, but I can just tell. Rolling to my side, I glance at the bedside table. Nearly noon... Fuck. I never sleep this late.

Forcing myself into an upright position, I stretch my arms over my head, trying to work out the kink in my back from sleeping on this stiff-ass mattress.

Scrubbing my hands down my face, I stop with my fingers just beneath my nose when her scent catches me by surprise. Taking a deep inhale, I can’t stop the smile that touches my lips. Delicious...

My cock stirs beneath the blanket thrown across my lap.

I didn’t intend for last night to happen. I’m not even sure I know how it did. Too much scotch. Too little willpower. I think that solves the mystery.

Does it make me a bad brother if I’m already counting down the seconds until I can be balls deep in his best friend again? I mean, if he’s not going to claim her, someone should. Even if that someone is me.

Shaking off the thought, I throw my legs over the side of the bed and push to a stand.

I may have enjoyed last night, but that doesn’t mean it meant anything. I wanted to fuck someone who wasn’t Olivia, and she was available.

I don’t believe the lie, not even for a fucking second.

I fucked her because I wanted to. And not because I wanted sex. I could have rolled over and done that with Olivia if that’s all it was. It wasn’t about the sex. It was about her. I just don’t yet know what that means.

That I’m a selfish bastard who can’t resist a good challenge?

That I get off knowing she’s off-limits?

Both are true. But they aren’t the only truth...

In nothing more than my boxers, I make my way across the hall to the bathroom, reemerging fifteen minutes later freshly showered and feeling semi-human again.

Tugging open the bathroom door, I step into the hallway, a towel hanging loosely on my hips, to see Aspen coming out of her room. She instantly looks my way, the sexiest fucking blush creeping up her neck.

Without a thought, I move toward her.

Before she can form a single word on her lips, I push her back inside the bedroom, turning for a short moment to click the lock behind me.

“What are you doing?” she whisper-hisses.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” I drop the towel, grinning like a fucking fool when her gaze drops, her eyes widening at the sight of me.

It hadn’t occurred to me that she’d never actually seen me like this before.

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