Wild Love by Lauren Accardo

Author:Lauren Accardo [Accardo, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

She closed out of the messaging app and replaced her phone on the table.

He’d written close to fifteen messages in the past couple of weeks, all variations on the same sentiment. Her brain screamed at her to delete the messages, block his number, and move on. But something else inside her, something deeper and unresolved, wanted to know how far he’d go to get her back. How much she was worth to him. How much she was worth, period.

“I’m still waiting.” Sam raised his eyebrows and shoved a cracker with cheese into his mouth. Tiny crumbs clung to his beard.

“You really are a toddler.”

She reached forward and combed her fingers through his soft, bristly beard, sending the crumbs tumbling down to his blue plaid shirt. He licked his bottom lip and the same sparkling thing passed between them again. It was so easy to be around him, to touch him, to talk to him. If she wanted to maintain the platonic nature of their friendship, she’d have to at least resist the touching.

“So, go.” His voice came out rough and strangled.

“Connor’s been reaching out a lot lately,” she said. “That’s it.”

“And you’re considering giving him another shot?”

“No,” she insisted. She watched her phone in case another message came through. “I don’t know if I could ever be with someone who cheated on me. I’d never forget about it, you know? He fucked her in our bed. We’d have to move. And burn those sheets.”

“Shit,” he said, running a hand over his beard. “In your bed. That’s bold.”

She shrugged. The memory of Connor and the blonde forced a wave of nausea from her gut. “He’s bold. In everything he does. He’s bold in business, he’s bold in his indiscretions, and now he’s being bold in trying to contact me again. He doesn’t do anything with caution.”

“Maybe he’d like to meet Liv.”

She cracked a smile. “Seriously, they might be perfect for each other.”

Their eyes met, and she pressed her lips together, wondering if he was thinking the same thing. Maybe we’d be perfect for each other.

“I think you should tell him you want to meet for coffee to talk about it but then maybe smash his windshield instead.”

A snort of laughter escaped her nose, and she covered her face. She’d never considered herself vindictive or petty, but as she packed a bag immediately after catching Connor in the act, an overwhelming urge to break something came over her. She remembered the weight of his Italian leather loafer as she plucked it from his meticulous shoe rack, the easy slide of his top dresser drawer, and the satisfying crunch of each watch face as it smashed beneath the blows. He broke her heart; she broke his shit.

“I’ll consider it.”

He licked his bottom lip and watched her. The heat from his stare sent shivers up her legs and into her belly. That was it. The look. She’d seen it in the store, at Thanksgiving, and now here. She wondered if he was sexually frustrated on account of Liv.

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