Love Around the Corner by Amanda Weaver

Author:Amanda Weaver [Weaver, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-31T21:43:22+00:00

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The adrenaline was still coursing through his veins as Brendan walked Gemma to his car. He was not in the right place for this conversation tonight, not after that infuriating phone call. But he also wasn’t in the mood to stand there and take it as she accused him of being some heartless carpetbagger. There was still so much she didn’t know, and if they were ever going to move beyond meaningless sex, they needed to address their past.

When they reached his car, he leaned down to unlock it. Gemma lowered herself into the passenger seat and he shut the door behind her. Well, here went nothing.

“So where are we going?” she asked after the first few minutes of the ride had passed in silence.

“Bensonhurst.”

“Wow, Bensonhurst at midnight. You really know how to show a girl a good time, Flaherty.”

He smiled tiredly. “Laugh it up, Romano, but I’m about to share my life’s work with you. Show a little respect.”

She laughed, too, and his lingering anger from their argument in front of DiPaola’s dissipated. Brendan felt the tension slowly leaving his shoulders as he drove through the dark Brooklyn streets. Under different circumstances, in that other life he’d had to leave behind, he could imagine them driving home together like this. Maybe with a couple of kids asleep in the back seat...

Well. Life had had other plans for both of them.

He turned onto Eighteenth Avenue and pulled up to the curb across the street from his building. “We’re here.”

Gemma peered through the windshield. “Where?”

“Hop out. I’ll show you.”

When they were standing side by side on the sidewalk, he nodded to his building across the street. “That’s it.”

“What is?”

“The first project of my new company.”

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