King Hunt (Boys of Brisley Book 1) by Octavia Jensen

Author:Octavia Jensen [Jensen, Octavia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CeliKetch Publishing
Published: 2022-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four:

Hopelessly Hopeful

Sterling

It didn’t take long for me to feel the wine she was feeding me. I could drink whiskey like it was water, but wine? My cheeks were hot, everything was funny, and Zeppelin’s teasing was making me want to touch her.

Reason won out for the most part and I settled for patting her head and her swatting my hand away. “Oh, don’t do that. How Many More Times ... are you going to run away from me?” I snorted, unable to help myself when I saw the look on her face. “Come on, you didn’t think I’d be able to resist Led Zeppelin puns forever, did you? You must be ... Dazed and Confused.”

Zeppelin’s laugh was more beautiful than any song I’d ever heard as she hit me with her stuffed penguin on the shoulder. “I guess I had them coming. Just so I’m prepared though, how many of those puns do you have up your sleeve?”

“I don’t know, they’ve got a lot of songs.” I smirked. “I could Ramble On for days.”

She rolled her eyes so hard her flushed cheeks and even messier bun than earlier rolled with them and she took another sip of her wine before speaking again. “You should drink wine more often, your smile is one of a kind.”

My eyes danced as I leaned in a little. “Are you buttering me up so I’ll spill my secrets to you, Miss Bryce?”

“Maybe, Mr. Handsome,” she teased, laying her head against my arm with a soft sigh. “I’ll share mine if you share yours. Believe it or not, there’s a lot you don’t know about me.”

“Okay, then. You ask me a question and then I’ll ask you one. Nothing is off the table.”

She hummed for a moment and then went right for the fucking jugular. “Did you love her?”

“I thought I did,” I said honestly. “She’s also not the person I thought she was, so that might have something to do with it. What about your ex? What was so fucking special about him?”

“Nothing,” she said simply. “He was charming when we met at a bar, present in some of my darkest times, and then he was gone. Kicked me out, strung me along, continued fucking me while he had a new girlfriend — though I didn’t know about her obviously — then he told me “we’re good here” and never spoke to me again. Or at least until he decided to become my boss. Now Kylie says he keeps trying to get a hold of me and the fucker is still married. There’s absolutely nothing special about him, I was just too blind to see that when I should have.”

The fucking rage in my system was nearly overwhelming. I could forgive a lot of things, but that? “Holy fuck, Zeppelin.”

“My turn,” she deflected. “Was she your most painful breakup? Or do we have to worry about more exes showing up when they realize what they truly lost?”

“She didn’t want me back. Just her job, and that’s fucking insane.

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