Seducing Her Brother's Best Friend by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-09T18:30:00+00:00

Six

Three weeks later on a Saturday morning, Patrick was sitting at a table in Tea for Two, pretending to work on his laptop.

He was mostly watching some guy flirting with Carol and trying not to snarl about it.

She was helping out behind the counter this morning since they were busy, and some overdressed guy had come in and made a beeline for her. Patrick had to assume the guy knew her because Carol had beamed as soon as she saw him and gave him a hug like he was an old friend.

The guy wore khakis, leather shoes, and a button-down Oxford. He also had on a flashy watch, and his teeth were unnaturally white. Everything about his appearance seemed designed to impress people, and Patrick had always been annoyed by men like that.

He was definitely annoyed by the way the guy kept hanging around Carol, even though he’d gotten his coffee and she was obviously busy serving customers.

Patrick scowled at the screen to his laptop. If Carol didn’t stop smiling at him that way, the guy was never going to leave.

For the past few weeks, Carol had turned into some sort of social butterfly. She’d never been like that before. She’d always been the type to stay home or to go out in a group with her friends. Naturally she’d dated occasionally, but she was looking for someone serious and had never wanted to waste her time with guys who’d only wanted to hook up.

Something had changed though. She was going out with three or four guys a week, and she didn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.

It was making Patrick crazy.

Of course he knew he’d handled things badly with her. Of course he knew he never should have had sex with her—much less twice in the span of an hour. He also knew he’d not done a good job explaining to her that a relationship between them was hopeless.

He kept repeating to himself it was better this way. Carol would never have been happy if she’d settled for him, just because they were the only two of their group left.

And Patrick cringed every time he imagined how he would feel a year from now, two years, five years, ten years, when Carol realized he wasn’t what she really wanted.

It didn’t matter if Carol thought it was fun and fitting that they get together. It didn’t matter that the rest of their friends all acted like it was perfectly natural.

That wasn’t the way relationships were supposed to work.

So Patrick had done what he’d believed was the best—as clumsily as he’d bumbled through it—and he was prepared to deal with the consequences.

He’d assumed the consequences would include Carol being sad and fragile for a while.

He’d never dreamed she would decide to set out on some sort of dating frenzy.

She was giggling now, and the obnoxious guy was staring openly at her cleavage. There was a brief respite from the crowd of customers, and Patrick prayed for a big group to come in.

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