Broken (#Hashtag Book 2) by Kady Hunt

Author:Kady Hunt [Hunt, Kady]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-13T14:00:00+00:00

The Meeting

LIAM

I can’t believe how punctual he is. Exactly at eight, I see Sebastian’s car pull up from the restaurant’s large window. Who does that anymore? You do, Liam. Right. Moving on. I have to wave to him a little so he knows where I am and he smiles and starts walking in my direction.

“Hey,” he says, sitting down across from me.

“How’s your friend doing?”

“Teague,” he says. “Well, he’s fucked up. He had to lie to his girlfriend about the whole thing and he’s not taking that whole almost-killed business too well. He’s not saying it out loud but I know the way his mind works and he’s beating himself up over it. I just wish there was something I could do.”

“Sometimes, the only thing you can do is be there for people. And I think you’re doing a pretty good job of that.”

“Yeah, but I want to be able to do more.”

“Look,” I say. “This is all new right now. He’s having trouble coming to terms with the whole incident, but he will get better in time. Trust me.”

“I hope so.”

“So, how about we order first?”

The waiter brings us wine.

“I picked the wine, I hope you don’t mind.” I say but already know the answer as Sebastian takes a sip.

“Not at all,” he says, looking delighted. “You’re good at it, so why the hell not?”

“It’s strange,” I say. “But I don’t have a lot of friends. Not close ones anyway, just acquaintances. People I know because of business deals or people interested in becoming friends because they think they can use me to climb the social ladder.”

“That sounds incredibly lonely.”

“You know I’ve never wanted a lot of people around me,” I say and I don’t even know why I’m telling him all that. “I always sort of kept to myself when I was younger and that hasn’t changed much. But I do want a family. I don’t want to stay a single man the rest of my life.”

“Aren’t women dying to marry you?”

“They are,” I say. “I’m just not dying to marry them.”

“Don’t you have a girlfriend?”

“Not at the moment, no.”

“So, what do you want in a life partner?”

“Someone who can die for me,” I say, looking straight at him. “Someone I can die for.”

He smiles. “You do that too,” Sebastian says.

“Do what?”

“Chase after dreams.”

There’s something unbelievably sad about the way he says this. And that sadness lingers even after he’s stopped talking.

“Some dreams are worth chasing, Sebastian.”

He looks at me like I’ve said something he doesn’t quite believe but wants to. The waiter comes with the menus and we get busy ordering. We get more wine and Sebastian starts to loosen up. “You know I never had one-night stands,” Sebastian says, laughing. “Everyone I knew fucked everyone else but I never could. So, I always felt left out. Sometimes I used to lie to my friends, make up stories about some girl so they wouldn’t tease me but I think they all knew that I was lying to cover up the fact that I didn’t have to guts to go for what I wanted.

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