Broken Beauty by Bry Ann

Author:Bry Ann [Ann, Bry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

14

Ajax

“I think you should leave,” I tell a confident-looking, beautiful Rain at the door.

I don’t miss the way her face falls even though she tries to mask it. I read her well. “Am I—am I interrupting something?” she asks.

“Ajax, baby, who is it?” Mandi, this girl I was planning to hook up with, asks from my bedroom.

Fuck.

Fuck.

Rain doesn’t need to see this, but I don’t need to justify myself to her. We’re the farthest thing from together. She’s not just out of my league, she’s from another planet, one far better than mine. But still, I find myself wanting to make sure she’s… okay with this.

“Oh,” I hear her say.

I glance at her with soft eyes. “This is for the best, Rain,” I whisper.

… And it is.

Rain and I just stare at each other for a long moment. There’s fire in her eyes as she stares at me. Her mouth is opening when Mandi runs her hands down my back.

“She’s blonde, of course,” Rain mutters before Mandi can say anything.

“Who the hell are you?” Mandi cuts in. I don’t like Mandi’s tone with her, but if I say that, it’ll just make leaving harder for both of us. Rain needs to think I don’t care. I'm doing this for both of us. Even if it wasn’t for her father’s intervention, this is for the best.

I look down before meeting Rain’s eyes again. “She’s a friend of the family. She was just leaving.”

Rain’s shoulders roll back. Oh, she’s pissed and I understand why. Plus, Mandi is really laying it on thick. She’s climbing all over me. Under normal circumstances, I’d appreciate it, but with Rain here, it feels wrong. Really wrong. Not to mention, I know how uncomfortable Rain is with sexual interactions, even though she tries to mask it.

“You’re right,” Rain says with a smile that warns me she’s up to no good, “I'm a close family friend.”

She walks up to me. Before my brain can process how close she is, her lips are on mine. My brain doesn’t even compute what’s happening until she’s pulled away.

“Bye, friend,” she says sarcastically, making sure to give me a show with her hips on the way out.

She kissed me. Rain Brown kissed me. I stare out the doorway where she just left. I want her back. I want to ask her why she did that. I want to confirm that she was jealous. But mostly, I want to kiss her again. I want to feel those soft lips on mine. I want to feel that soft body vulnerable beneath my fingers, knowing I’d never do a thing to hurt her.

There’s a sigh from beside me but I'm too transfixed. “Go after her.”

“What?”

“Look at me,” Mandi demands. She grabs my shoulders and turns me.

“I'm no angel, but I can’t sit here and stand between love, alright? That shit’s bad karma.”

“What? Love, no.” A fake laugh escapes my lips. “Come on, let’s, uh, head back.”

“Tempting.” Mandi smirks. “Ajax, go. You haven’t stopped looking for her.

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