Seal'd Auction: A Bad Boy Military Standalone Romance by Charlotte Byrd

Author:Charlotte Byrd [Byrd, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Byrd Books
Published: 2018-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

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When you have coffee with a guy you can’t have…

And that’s pretty much how I was roped into going. You don’t know Caroline, but if you did, the first thing you’d find out is that she is not one to take things seriously. Nothing fazes her. Nothing worries her. Sometimes she is the most enlightened person on earth, other times she’s the densest. Most of the time, I’m jealous of the fact that she simply lives life in the present.

“So, you’re going?” my friend Tom asks. He brought me my pumpkin spice latte, the first one of the season!

I close my eyes and inhale it’s sweet aroma before taking the first sip. But even before its wonderful taste of cinnamon and nutmeg runs down my throat, Tom is already criticizing my decision.

“I can’t believe you’re actually going,” he says.

“Oh my God, now I know it’s officially fall,” I change the subject. “Was there actually such a thing as autumn before the pumpkin spice latte? I mean, I remember that we had falling leaves, changing colors, all that jazz, but without this…it’s like Christmas without a Christmas tree.”

“Ellie, it’s a day after Labor Day,” Tom rolls his eyes. “It’s not fall yet.”

I take another sip. “Oh yes, I do believe it is.”

“Stop changing the subject,” Tom takes a sip of his plain black coffee. How he doesn’t get bored with that thing, I’ll never know. But that’s the thing about Tom. He’s reliable. Always on time, never late. It’s nice. That’s what I have always liked about him. He’s basically the opposite of Caroline in every way.

And that’s what makes seeing him like this, as only a friend, so hard.

“Why are you going there? Can’t Caroline go by herself?” Tom asks, looking straight into my eyes. His hair has this annoying tendency of falling into his face just as he’s making a point – as a way of accentuating it. It’s actually quite vexing especially given how irresistible it makes him look. His eyes twinkle under the low light in the back of the Starbucks.

“I’m going as her plus one,” I announce. I make my voice extra perky on purpose. So that it portrays excitement, rather than apprehensiveness, which is actually how I’m feeling over the whole thing.

“She’s making you go as her plus one,” Tom announces as a matter a fact. He knows me too well.

“I just don’t get it, Ellie. I mean, why bother? It’s a super yacht filled with filthy rich people. I mean, how fun can that party be?”

“Jealous much?” I ask.

“I’m not jealous at all!” He jumps back in his seat. “If that’s what you think…”

He lets his words trail off and suddenly the conversation takes on a more serious mood.

“You don’t have to worry, I’m not going to miss your engagement party,” I say quietly. It’s the weekend after I get back.”

He shakes his head and insists that that’s not what he’s worried about.

“I just don’t get it Ellie,” he says.

You don’t get it? You

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