Auctioned to my Best Friend : Friends to Lovers Romance by Cassi Hart

Author:Cassi Hart [Hart, Cassi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Caleb

I wake up to find that I’m not dreaming this time. I’m really in bed with Shana, her arm resting across my chest with her face next to mine on the pillow. For about thirty seconds, I’m in heaven.

Our surroundings and what led us to this place brings me back down to earth. Though I wouldn’t change a thing, I still can’t quite believe how badly I’ve screwed up my life. The moment she wakes up and remembers it all, she’ll start worrying again, making crazy plans, or worse, crying because she thinks I’m going to be killed.

I grab my phone, trying not to focus too hard on the messages from Leo. I’ve already dodged too many of his calls and the longer I leave it, the worse things will get. I’m already in deep shit, but I honestly don’t think he’ll murder me. At least I hope not.

With a quiet sigh, I turn so I can watch Shana sleep. Her long dark lashes rest on her cheeks, and her blonde hair is in a wild tangle behind her. Her full lips are slack and slightly swollen from all my kisses. If I’m not mistaken, there’s a bit of a smile on her face, even though she is in a deep sleep.

God, I’d love to stay in bed with her all day and keep pretending that nothing’s wrong. Listen to her outlandish plans of running away to foreign lands together and hiding out like we’re in some kind of mafia movie. I want a lot more of what we did together last night until we fell into an exhausted and sated sleep. I love that I’ve awakened her inner beast and that she so freely gave herself to me.

But I also know why she did it, and that reality hits even harder than the fact I have to call Leo. I want to pretend she’s here in bed with me because she loves me, but I worry she was only thankful I saved her. And the longer I pretend that she’s madly in love with me, the worse my heart is going to get smashed in the end.

I’ve been in love with Shana ever since she pushed Tommy Wilber for running away with her unicorn backpack in second grade. Maybe longer than that. There’s not a moment of my life I don’t remember her being a part of it, and I’ve always known she was mine. Just not like this. Not because she thinks she owes me.

I should have exercised self-control, kept being patient and working on her until she threw herself at me solely because she was wildly in love with me—not because I committed a major crime for her.

But how could I resist? It was asking way too much.

With another long look at her beautiful sleeping face, I ease myself out from under her arm. I pull my clothes on and take my phone out into the hall. With the resolve of a condemned man about to take his last walk on death row, I make the call to Leo.

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