Romance with Mr. Grumpy Pants: A Witty, Opposites Attract, Enemies to Lovers, Next Door Neighbor, Sweet Romance by Brooke Benson

Author:Brooke Benson [Benson, Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

15

Jessica

When his hand covers mine, a jolt of shock shoots through my body. My heart races, and I don’t quite know how to respond at first.

“Let me… let me go tuck Lily into bed,” I stammer.

“Then you’ll come back, right?”

I bite my lip. “Are you sure?”

His eyes flicker with a dark intensity, answering the question for me. Then, he pulls out his phone and slides it toward me.

“Text yourself on my phone so that you have my number. Give me a call when Lily is settled, and we can meet in my garage.”

I’m reluctant at first but follow through. I can’t help but giggle like a schoolgirl with a crush when heading home.

After tending to Lily, I find myself in Brian’s garage. I hate to admit it, but I’m a little impressed by the studio setup. So, this is it—his space to create my insanity. But now that I’m giving this thing he calls music a chance, I can’t really say it’s a nuisance. His band isn’t half bad. I was too consumed with our fights, competing with him and my deadline pressure to notice.

My eyes catch a coarse leather book cover on a drawer in the corner. “What’s this?” I ask.

He turns to me from where he sits in front of his laptop, making an edit. I’ve never understood the editing process. To me, it’s just a bunch of jagged lines stacked on top of each other. I miss when music was just stanzas and instruments.

“It’s where I write down lyrics when I’m inspired. It helps most times when I’m stuck on a new song…you know, just to spit it out.”

Nodding, I pick the book up and flip the pages open. I stop on a random page and read the verse.

Buy me the Mississippi.

Let me drown myself there.

Don’t act like you don’t see me.

I miss the times you were here.

Throw me into the river.

Let me lay my head on stone.

And when the blood from my head is finished,

I’ll know for sure that we’ll be one.

A sad smile spreads across my lips as I re-read the lines, an image of Liam crossing my mind. I miss him with every bone in my body, but I know he’s in a better place now, a place where pain doesn’t destroy him.

Looking away from the book, I lift my head to the ceiling and take a deep breath before wiping my teary eyes dry with the sleeve of my shirt. “This is pretty dark.”

He turns to me again, oblivious to my mini breakdown. “Let me see.”

I show him the page, and he merely glances at it before his eyes light up

with recognition. “Yeah, it was written during dark times…very dark times.”

“I like it, but I think it loses something at the end.”

He looks at me, his alluring brown eyes etched with curiosity. “I thought the same thing, but I just can’t find a way to make it rhyme and still make it make sense.”

I lean down so that we are both hovering over the book.

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