Enchanted by J. S. Scott

Author:J. S. Scott [Scott, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

NOAH

“What in the hell is wrong with you, Noah?” my brother Seth questioned a week later as he and Aiden sat at my kitchen table, both of them downing a beer with me. “You came back from Cancún looking better, and a week later, you look like hell again.”

At the moment, I would have preferred a big bottle of tequila to the beer I was guzzling, but I made do with the brew from the case that Aiden had brought with him.

“That was vacation,” I said stoically. “This is real life.”

Honestly, I had finished my dating app, and it was in the testing phase. But I hadn’t immediately started another project. I’d tried, but I wasn’t concentrating well enough to do the start-up work.

“Yeah, well, real life doesn’t have to suck,” Seth said grimly.

“It does,” I told him right before I knocked down a good portion of my third bottle of beer.

“Have you talked to Andie at all?” Aiden asked. “You seemed to be having a good time with her in Cancún.”

I’d connected with both Aiden and Seth a few times while I was out of the country, and I hated myself for sounding so enthusiastic at that time. “Not at all,” I replied flatly. “Why would I? We had a good time while it lasted, but she’s Owen’s friend.”

I tried like hell not to think about that last hour on Eli’s jet. It had been awkward and silent. We hadn’t said a single word to each other. Not even as we’d disembarked from the jet.

“I got the sense that she might have been a little more than a friend,” Aiden pressed.

“A fling,” I said, the words tasting bad in my mouth.

Like I’d told Andie, I didn’t do flings. But maybe I should think about it in the future. Perhaps it would help me become more sophisticated about screwing a woman and just walking away after our bodies were sated.

I finished my beer and reached for another, pissed off at myself for not just getting over Andie Lawrence.

Problem was, I couldn’t forget all of the things that had happened. They played through my mind in a loop, and I watched that particular movie in my head over and over.

Why didn’t I see that she wasn’t up for more? Why did I think she’d want to spend her life with me?

Hell, the entire relationship had been too much, too fast.

Once I’d had a chance to cool down from the anger-that-was-really-pain that I’d experienced after she’d blown me off, I’d done my best to reason things out. I wanted to figure out exactly when our intentions became so different.

I’d wanted everything almost from the very beginning.

She’d never said she wanted the same thing.

No strings attached . . .

She’d never taken that back. I’d just assumed that she’d felt differently by the end of the trip.

Dammit! I’d felt her emotions, and she sure as hell should have been able to decipher mine.

I’d chalked the whole thing up to me and Andie just being too .

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