Playing to Win (The Complete Series Box Set): 3 romances with angst and humor by Alix Nichols

Author:Alix Nichols [Nichols, Alix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Lucas

Drop the bait. Keep calm. Let it sink and do its job.

What I just said to Isabelle wasn’t an outright lie. I do have recurring dreams about making love to her. They may very well be just fantasies, given how much I lust after her. But there’s a chance they may be recollections.

My first memories of life Before Amnesia.

And there’s the vague sense Isabelle is hiding something from me just like Angie. My gut tells me it’s important. I need to know what it is. And I’m prepared to do what it takes to find out.

Isabelle’s breathing grows shallower by the second. Her cheeks are crimson. As for her big brown eyes, I have no words to describe the turmoil in them.

It worked. My bait worked!

She wouldn’t be reacting like this if what she’d told me was the full story.

“You and I, we were lovers,” I say gently.

Mustn’t scare her away.

She doesn’t say anything, doesn’t even nod in response, but her eyes are expressive enough that she doesn’t have to do either.

I feel like singing. I’m a hairbreadth from pulling her to my chest and kissing the hell out of her. But not just yet.

“Talk to me, please,” I say. “I met with Angie last night, asked her lots of questions, but she kept her answers so short they were useless.”

She sets her beer on the table. “I’ll tell you everything, Lucas. Keeping the ending of our friendship from you didn’t sit well with me anyway.”

“Did we have a relationship?”

She shakes her head. “We had a night.”

“Just one night?”

“Yep, just one. Whatever you remembered can only be from that night three months before you were attacked.”

Three months before—

I was dating Angie.

“Go on,” I say, suddenly a lot less elated.

She looks down. “In the morning, you told me you were dating Angie. And you told me you had no intention of dumping her. Quite the contrary, you were planning to propose.”

“Jeez.”

“I was mad at you.”

“You had every reason to be.”

Isabelle nods. “So, I decided to get away.”

“Is that why you quit water polo, too? So we’d never cross paths?”

She smiles faintly and nods once more.

Happy now, Lucas? The bait worked.

Isabelle totally bit it and spilled the beans. Now I know what she’s been hiding from me. I’ve read the missing page of our story.

Hallelujah.

Except I was probably better off living in ignorance. It would have been easier to deny all the other clues I’d gleaned here and there about my less than stellar behavior. It was easier to cast myself as a decent human being.

I drop my head to my chest. “I was a douchebag.”

She sighs.

“I two-timed Angie, and I got you into my bed without telling you I was seeing someone.” I stare into her eyes. “I was a royal douchebag.”

She gives me a feeble smile. “You were young, stupid and self-centered. So yeah, you were a douchebag. But you weren’t hopeless.”

“You’re too kind,” I say with a sneer.

She shakes her head. “No, no, I mean it, Lucas! The night you were attacked, Eric and I saw you at Le Poivre, and you said you were sorry.

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