My Accidental Forever (Love You Forever Book 5) by Alexis Winter

Author:Alexis Winter [Winter, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

Foster

I force myself to walk away. I don’t know what’s gotten into me. This past week it’s been hard staying away from her. I know what I’m asking from her isn’t fair, which is why I’m trying to keep my distance. It kills me to think of another man getting to be with her. But what can I do? I tell myself that staying away from her is nothing more than a little practice. It’s like weaning yourself off a drug. Each day is a fight, but each day, it gets a little easier.

I leave her place and drive straight to mine, not trusting myself to go anywhere else. I know I’ll probably just drink too much to make up for missing her, and I don’t need to drive home after that. I get to my place, order some Chinese food for dinner, and call Bianca. We really are close—as friends anyway—and we’ve always had each other to talk to.

“Hey, Foster. What’s up?” she answers.

“Wanna come hang out with me? We’ll eat too much Chinese food and drink too much alcohol,” I tease.

“All you had to say was Chinese food,” she jokes. “Be there soon.”

I hang up the phone and go for a shower to kill some time. The hot water helps to relax me, but it doesn’t take Harley off my mind. When I get out, I pull on a pair of boxers and some sweatpants, then head back to the living room, stopping at the drink cart and pouring myself a little something.

A little while later, Bianca walks in and finds me on the couch in front of the TV, Chinese food spread out across the coffee table.

She looks at me with a knowing smile. “Why do you look like you’ve lost your puppy?” she asks, coming to sit at my side.

I shrug.

She picks up a carton of food and looks back at me while picking at it. “It’s her, isn’t it? Did she break up with you?”

“No, we’re not together, so we can’t break up,” I point out.

She rolls her eyes. “Oh, come on. What’s your problem then?”

“She’s out on a date right now with another guy.”

“Oh, I see. You’re jealous.”

“I am not jealous,” I argue, but then realize that’s exactly what I am. I shrug. “Okay, maybe.”

“Why don’t you just tell her you don’t want her seeing this guy? What’s the big deal?”

I shake my head. “How can I do that? How can I say, ‘You can’t see anyone but me, but I’m going to leave you eventually because I’m being forced to marry my best friend’?”

She moves her head from side to side then smiles wide. “You could just let go of this whole arranged-marriage thing and marry her instead.”

“I kind of already did that by accident. In Vegas. And now I’m in the process of undoing it before our parents find out.”

“Hold up . . . WHAT? You can’t just gloss over that like it’s nothing!”

I rub my hands over my face before explaining everything to her.

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