Neighbor Nik (Bad Boys We Love Book 1) by Naomi Porter

Author:Naomi Porter [Porter, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Ocean Dreams Publishing
Published: 2020-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

NeighborNik: Fuck yeah. You’ll find out why. I wanna see you before work.

Me: K. How about 5?

NeighborNik: Perfect. See you then.

I put my phone down and exhaled. Four hours before I could see Nik was a lifetime away.

Yesterday after he visited Bea and took the lasagna I’d made to her, I met him at a park near our neighborhood and spent the afternoon with him. We’d found a quiet, semi-private spot under a tree and got cozy on a blanket I brought.

I had no idea Nik could be so sweet. He bought a small container of fruit and fed me grapes and strawberries and played with my hair while I yammered on about Toni and our high school years. Not once had he complained about me talking his ear off. He seemed totally content just being with me.

We kissed a lot too. It was glorious having a man find me irresistible. And no other woman had stolen his attention. He seemed to only have eyes for me.

The time spent with him, though short, was the best day of my life.

“What has you smiling over there, Rita?”

I lifted my head. Granny and Bea were staring at me with curious expressions. Crap!

“Just texting with Toni. You know how silly she can be. The girl makes me smile all the time.” I was going straight to hell for lying to them. I had to wonder how I had gotten to be so good at it.

“Thank you for the lasagna. It was delicious.”

I nearly choked on my spit. “Oh, you’re welcome, Bea.”

“Rita made you a lasagna? When?” Granny didn’t take her eyes off me.

“She made it at Nik’s house.”

“What? Is this true?”

“Yes, Granny. It’s true. I helped him assemble it. That’s it.”

Granny turned toward Bea and told her about the blanket she was knitting. She ignored me the rest of the time at Palm Vista and on the way home.

When we pulled up to the house, she got out of the car and said she was taking a nap. It was what she usually did after visiting Bea. But this time, I knew she wanted to get away from me, and it cut me deep.

“Okay, I’ve got some errands to do.”

“Bye.” She waved me off.

I left the house and ran across the street to Nik’s. I was furious with him. How could he tell Bea I made the lasagna when he knew I was hiding us from Granny?

I knocked on the door and it opened seconds later.

“Hey, beautiful.” He leaned down to kiss me, but I pushed him away and went inside the house.

He closed the door. “What’s wrong?”

“Why did you tell Bea I made the lasagna?”

He furrowed his brow and scratched the scruff on his jaw. “She knew I didn’t make it and wanted to know who did.”

“And you told her I did. Why, Nik? Now Granny is angry with me. She’s ignoring me.”

“Rita, I didn’t want to lie to Nana. I mean, come on. I can’t cook worth shit. She knows this.”

“Then you could have told her your girlfriend made it!”

He grabbed me and hugged me tightly.

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