Audible Love by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07NQR42KY
Published: 2019-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Seth

Here’s the thing about this night. It has been too perfect. It’s too good to last.

I know this because I have a lifetime of experience to back me up. When life is this good, the other shoe is about to drop. It has to. That’s Murphy’s Law, right? That’s karma or yin and yang, or whatever it is you believe. What I believe is that I am not a lucky guy. I never have been, my family never has been, and I certainly don’t believe my luck has instantly turned overnight.

But try telling that to my face, because I don’t think I’ve stopped smiling since that kiss. Yeah, the night might have started off a little rough. Seeing Avery with Trent was…not fun. I don’t even want to admit to the crazy levels of jealousy that had me clenching my hands into fists every time Trent touched her.

It sucked, and it sucked hard. The worst part was, that churning pit of envy made it impossible to ignore the obvious.

I’d developed a thing for my new friend.

Oh, I’d been telling myself it was just a little crush—the sort of thing one would expect to occur when befriending a hottie the likes of Avery. It is physically impossible not to think about what she looks like naked, so of course there’s going to be a bit of an infatuation there.

But that jealousy, the rage that had made me feel capable of murder just to keep Trent from touching Avery? It called me out as the liar I am.

But then…then the craziest thing happened.

Trent blew it. I mean, I don’t know why I ever doubted that he would. Trent’s not the sharpest tool in the shed and Avery...well, Avery is. She’s quick and she’s insightful, and she sure as hell knows a self-absorbed moron when one is holding her under his arm with his meaty bicep.

My mood had brightened quickly. There was little more satisfying than watching Trent turn Avery off. The girl might be an ice queen, unreadable to most. But not me. Not anymore. And those little flickers of feelings, the way she’d fidgeted uncomfortably at his touch…she might as well have just tasted milk that had gone sour. That’s how obvious her distaste was to me.

And that was the most beautiful sight I’d ever seen.

So yeah, I was jealous. And that jealousy was impossible to ignore. For a little while, I’d tried to tell myself it was just Trent. It was just the fact that the guy she was dating was the school’s crown prince, the heir apparent of entitlement, the guy whose famous name and pretty face I had to thank for the demand for my free time in the studio and whose very existence was an affront to my moral code.

But no. It wasn’t just Trent. That much was so obvious. I couldn’t even pretend that I’d be any happier if it were any other guy with his arm around Avery because one thing was shockingly clear.

I wanted to have my arms around Avery.

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