Thirty Days with You by Ruth Miranda

Author:Ruth Miranda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Overseas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Interracial Romance, Curvy Girl Romance, Holiday Romance
Publisher: Ruth Miranda
Published: 2022-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

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“Order a couple for the birthday boy, maybe it’ll loosen his tongue and he finally confesses to a certain someone just how much he likes her.”

Darren’s voice echoes far too loud inside the noisy room - it climbs over every other sound and makes itself clear. I stare at him, hands numb, a buzz in my ears and a tingle on my lips. I can’t even speak. Every eye turns to me, they all watch with a mix of awkwardness and sympathy, most of them remembering the night I drank way too much and confessed my feelings to a woman far above me.

That damn university party, most of the people present in this room were there. Except for my cousins, GiGi’s fiancé and Tan-yah, that is. All the others watched as I made a complete spectacle of myself, swaying across a crowded room, dropping on one knee and shouting at a woman seven years older than me that I loved her with all my heart.

A woman whose boyfriend felt justified kicking me in the gut and punching me in the face for my audacity.

Worst moment in my life - worse even than my mother’s death, because no matter how I look at it, that was a relief - and Darren brings it back. At least his smile falters as he scans the look on my face and realises he may have gone too far. Peeling my eyes off him, I stumble away, nearly tripping on Tan-yah’s feet. Ignoring even her - especially her - I rush to the door and let it bang behind me as I leave. Outside, a waitress walks by pushing a cart full of food towards another room. She nods, I manage to respond, though my head keeps swimming. The stark white lights on the corridor’s ceiling don’t help, either, they make my eyes sting. So I close them and lean back against a wall, hoping to catch my breath and my serenity.

Shouldn’t have let such a small thing get to me - it was meaningless and silly. I’m sure Darren didn’t mean to humiliate me, just wanted me to take a leap of faith and do something. Sometimes he acts like he doesn’t even know me - we’re different, and what serves him doesn’t necessarily suit me.

He believes in facing your fears and braving your own shit, I’m more of a ‘ignore it all, pretend it’s not happening’ man, myself. Especially where it comes to women. Maybe I’d have found the courage to act - Tan-ya seems to do that to me, give me courage where I had none - but not after someone reminding me of what happened the last time I did.

Still, my reaction was over the top, and all it did was make me look stupid. What will she think of me? What is she thinking, at this point, when I spent half the night chatting with Ahn-Mei? I wanted to push her aside and join Tan-yah, but she’s my best

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