The Great Dating Fake Off by Livy Hart

Author:Livy Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Sebastian

Nora lets out a thoughtful hum as she turns down the music. “These tiny little thumbtack towns look like vintage postcards.”

“Sure.”

Not that I’m paying attention to the towns. I’m too distracted watching her drive. More specifically, watching for potholes, speed limit signs, deer gathered on the shoulders of the back country roads.

“If only they had actual flower shops,” she continues. “They’d be perfect.”

The first two towns we passed through didn’t have any, or even the kind of grocery stores that might carry small emergency arrangements for dudes who forget their wives’ birthdays, but if my maps app is to be trusted, the next town does.

As we pass a Welcome to Ladagalley sign, Nora pulls a Fast and the Furious maneuver and swerves off the cracked gray road to catch the entrance to a coffee shop. I grab the oh-shit bar and hold on for dear life. “Easy, killer.”

“What? I took the turn at five miles per hour.” She slows down to funnel into the drive-through line. “I need coffee.”

My body lights up like a firework in anticipation of caffeine. “Great. I want to be really alert so I can hear the rest of your chaotic playlist.”

She shoves my arm. “You sang along to half the songs. Mezza voce.”

“One does not hear ‘All Night Long’ or ‘Sweet Emotion’ and not sing along.”

She pulls up beside the ordering speaker, and we’re greeted by a perky voice. “Top of the mornin’, I’ll be with you in a moment.”

I attempt to read the menu through her window, but I can barely make out the words. I unbuckle my belt and use the center console for leverage so I can lean closer.

Which also means I’m forced to thrust myself into her space.

The car rocks as she jabs the brake.

“Sorry, foot slipped,” she mutters. “Should I just read you the menu so you can sit back down?”

“This is much faster.” I scan the Lass and Lad’s Irish-themed offerings, looking for the normal coffee orders amid all the leprechaun shit.

But the longer I hover here, the more I breathe in the delicate, sweet smell of her that’s slowly becoming a comfort and a vice. Sunlight streams through her windshield, illuminating her glowing skin.

We both got carried away last night, and I know it can’t happen again, but that doesn’t dull the impulse to get close to her.

Which is exactly why we shouldn’t spend time together.

My brain tunes in to the sound of her sigh instead of the words I’m trying to read.

“Can you please pick something?” Annoyance has crept into her tone.

I get it. I’m annoyed with me too, for wanting what I can’t have.

“I don’t have a go-to order at these kinds of places.” I tilt my head her way, and fuck, do I instantly regret that.

She’s right there. It’s a clear-frames glasses day, and her hair is in two cute braids.

Her full lips are bare. No gloss, no lipstick, just a shade of naked pink that makes it hard for me to remember why I said no more of this.

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