Faking Forever by Catherine Bybee

Author:Catherine Bybee [Bybee, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503905221
Published: 2019-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

“He was pissed! Holy shit, I didn’t think he could come out of his seat fast enough when that guy started touching you.”

Shannon listened to Avery’s take on what went down at the table after she’d left. They lounged in the plunge pool, as they had nearly every night they’d been in Tulum. The price of the room was worth every penny to shed the suit and swim naked. Maybe the people on the nude beach had found the answer to life.

“He doesn’t have a right to be jealous.”

“Maybe not. But he was seething.”

Shannon had told Avery that he’d kissed her the second they walked away from the bar. Avery’s response was a hard look at her lips and a comment about bruises.

“He asked me to wait for him, Avery.”

“What do you mean?”

“Three months. He asked me to wait three months and allow him to see me.”

Avery pushed to the other side of the small pool and looked her in the eye. “What did you say?”

“I didn’t say anything. I mean, I didn’t agree, didn’t disagree. He isn’t what I expected. He was a total piece of work when I met the man, and now . . .”

“Not so much,” Avery finished for her.

“Not so much.”

“What do you have to lose?”

“What if it doesn’t work? What if he turns back into the selfish guy he was on the plane?”

“Then you cut him off and go back to your other plan. Consider this: What if you’d met him a month from now, two months from now, and Steve-o at the bar ended up being Mr. Baby Daddy? Call me naive, but a pregnant girlfriend who is carrying a child that isn’t yours is a little harder to juggle.”

Avery’s logic rang true.

“I haven’t been touched by a man since Paul, and I’m considering letting this guy put me on the hook, pushing off my plan for three months based on one kiss.” One spectacular kiss.

Avery shrugged. “I guess when you put it like that . . .”

“See?”

They were both silent for a few breaths.

“How good was the kiss?” Avery asked.

Shannon closed her eyes and shivered. “I’ve never been kissed like that. With such abandon and need. It was like he had this one shot of making his point, this one moment, rolled up in a single kiss.” She opened her eyes, found Avery smiling. “I think it was the best first kiss I’ve ever had.”

“Doesn’t your best first kiss deserve a chance?” Avery asked.

“Why are you so congenial about Victor? The man was engaged to another woman less than a week ago.” A big red flag in anyone’s book.

Avery kicked her feet up in the water. “Oh, that’s easy.”

“Why?”

“You. Because of you! The First Wives Club is going on, what, three years? I have never seen the kind of smiles on your face that I have since we’ve been here. Even when Victor ticks you off, there is a glow in you. So if he ends up being the selfish douche guy you spoke of, right now the man is pulling you out of the muck that Paul drug you through.

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