Let Me Love You (Don't Let Me) by Kelsie Rae

Author:Kelsie Rae [Rae, Kelsie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-29T18:30:00+00:00

20

MIA

The band is killing it on the stage. They’re not Broken Vows, but they’re pretty good. Alternative rock with a dash of blues. My head bobs up and down with the beat as I wipe out a freshly-washed glass with a clean towel when someone approaches me at the bar.

If it isn’t the devil himself.

“Hello again, Professor,” I greet him. “Two trips to SeaBird in one week?”

“It’s been a tough one,” he grumbles.

“You know, if you lost the suit, you might not stick out like a sore thumb around here.”

“Yeah.” He looks down at his dark, fitted suit making him look like a GQ model. As he smooths down the rich fabric, light reflects off the Rolex wrapped around his sexy wrist and catches my attention. I didn’t know wrists could be sexy, but with the dapple of dark hair and veins popping along the top of his hand, I stand corrected. Not surprising since the man was voted the sexiest bachelor alive prior to his girlfriend taking him off the market. If that isn’t an accomplishment, I don’t know what is.

“Guess I forget I don’t look like a student anymore,” he adds dryly, assessing his odd choice of clothes compared to everyone else around him.

Yeah, no. Not even close. The guy might not be a student anymore, but he’s aged like a fine fucking wine. I started paying attention to the Buchanan name when I found out Evelyn Buchanan, Henry’s little sister, was dating my father’s killer. Well, technically, two men were arrested for my dad’s murder, but still.

Thankfully, the Buchanans weren’t involved in my father’s disappearance. However, their names were still dragged through the mud, thanks to Henry’s dad running for Senator at the time.

After the police made the connection, the Buchanan name hit the newspapers for weeks. Henry was friends with the guy too. Troy McAdams. The frat boy asshole who became friends with the lowlife loan shark who killed my dad and asked Troy to help him cover his tracks.

And what would you know? I ended up having Professor Buchanan, Troy McAdams’ friend, as a teacher at LAU a few years later.

It’s eerie how small the world feels sometimes.

Then again, I could’ve moved across the country to escape from it all. I could still move across the country to escape from it all.

But I won’t.

Because what little family I have is here in this small town, including my friends, and I doubt they’re going anywhere.

“Missing the good ol’ days, Professor?” I quip. “When you’d blend in with the rest of the students at SeaBird instead of sticking out like a sore thumb?”

Apparently, Henry Buchanan attended LAU too. Rumor has it this is the same bar where his little sister met her husband, Jake Jensen. And it’s a good thing she found such a perfect fit for her snooty-tooty family because the guy’s a software nerd who took over B-Tech Enterprises after Henry passed along the responsibilities and decided to become a professor instead.

Henry’s full lips press together as he scans the bar, barely sparing me a glance as he reminds me, “You’ve graduated.

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