Falling for My Best Friend's Brother Next Door: A Friends to Lovers Off-Limits Romance by Gina Cooper

Author:Gina Cooper [Cooper, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Fiona

“Fiona?”

It wasn’t a voice I heard every day, but one that I’d played in my head over and over again; it was no surprise I could tell who it was from just one word. I didn’t know what to say in response, but Aurora wouldn’t give up any time soon.

“I can hear you breathing,” she said, and I quickly realized that I’d given myself away. I cleared my throat to make up for my lack of response.

“Who is this?”

I expected her to say something rude to really drive home the point that she could see through my bullshit, but she spoke with a soft voice when she replied that I had to pull the phone away from my ear as if I could see her face through the phone.

The same unknown number stared back at me, and I returned the phone back to my ear. Asking how she got my number wouldn’t get the conversation going because she was rich, and rich people had their ways.

“It’s Aurora.”

I waited for her to say something more, to get to the point of the phone call, but she didn’t say anything after the fact.

“Okay,” I replied, breaking first. “What do you want?”

“I need to talk to you, Fiona,” her voice had taken on an air of desperation that I could tell she was trying to hide back. But it was Aurora; she had no business calling me.

“We’re already talking.”

“No, I meant face to face. Can we meet up somewhere?”

“You want to meet up? With me?”

“It’s imperative, and I wouldn’t be taking up much of your time. If it wasn’t important, I wouldn’t be calling you.”

And how she said it made me agree to meet her at a cafe on the outskirts of Laketown. It was a public place, and I figured she was less likely to try something in broad daylight and in front of so many people.

****

Saturdays were my off days, and this wasn’t one of the ways I hoped this weekend would go. I realized how overly dressed I was when I stepped into the cafe and found Aurora in pants and a black shirt, a clear contrast to my flowery dress. It was almost as if I got the impression that we were meeting up for brunch or something.

Coupled with the bags under her eyes, she looked like she had just had a night from hell. I didn’t comment on her choice of clothing or the fact that her hair wasn’t as pristine as it always looked.

What happened at the dinner party? I hadn’t spoken to Allison yet, so there was no way of telling.

“Hey,” I said and took a seat opposite her. She hadn’t ordered anything yet.

“Hey,” came the reply, in the same soft voice she used on the phone.

I looked around the room, hoping to catch sight of a camera in case I had managed to walk into a prank set, but there was nothing but the other customers who seemed far more interested in their own conversations or their solitude to care about us.

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