Bro Code Hell by Marika Ray

Author:Marika Ray [Ray, Marika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marika Ray Publishing
Published: 2022-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Blaze

The water was entirely too hot, but I let it burn me. I deserved it and so much more for sleeping with Annie. Apparently, the time spent wallowing like a pig in mud hadn’t been enough. I needed to fuck up my life in new ways to keep myself in this downward spiral of fuckery. It wasn’t enough to lose my job, my career, my life in LA. No, I had to add losing my best friend to the mix. Because that was surely the only outcome to all of this.

I couldn’t even blame it on the pain meds because I’d flushed those down the toilet last week. I’d let myself be led around by my dick, making decisions with the organ least likely to care about my long-term preservation. I’d fucked Annie and ultimately fucked myself.

The water started to turn cold, so I shut it off, yanking the towel off the wall and wrapping it around my waist. The mirror was fogged over and that was fine by me. I didn’t want to see myself and have to examine what the hell I’d done. I was afraid if I looked into my eyes long enough, I’d see the small thought in the back of my brain that I could not let myself entertain.

Part of me didn’t regret a damn thing with Annie.

She was amazing in ways I could never have imagined. Her incessant talking made me smile inside, even as I frowned at her. She was happiness personified, always jumping in to help others when I would have told them to go to hell. For a few brief moments, when I sank into her heat and she surrounded my senses, I felt like her optimism had somehow transferred to me. Like when I was a kid and wished dropping my forehead to the textbook would let the information soak into my brain through osmosis, just touching Annie seemed to lighten my spirit.

And I fucking wanted more of it.

I stalked back into my bedroom, shoving my legs into sweats. The T-shirt stuck to my wet skin, but I didn’t have time to care. I needed to talk this out with Annie. Not only for the sake of my friendship with Ben, but for the sake of my relationship with Annie.

She was sitting on the bed when I got to her bedroom, her gaze staring off into nothing. Her hair was still a sexy mess. I wanted to go over there and comb my fingers through it. Say something witty and wonderful that would make her lose the haunted look on her face. But I was me and eloquent words were not something that I was capable of.

“Annie,” I said, my voice rough.

Her head popped up and she shot me a smile I knew was fake. “Hey.”

“We should talk.”

The edges of her smile wobbled and fell. Fuck. Why couldn’t I be like Ethan or Daxon, a friendly quip on the tip of my tongue to set everyone at ease?

She patted the bed.

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