Snowed In at Harper’s Inn: A Snowed In for Christmas Clean Romance by Meadows Catelyn

Author:Meadows, Catelyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

For all he knew, Lacie would go out and sleep in that barn just to spite him. Why did people always do the worst things for themselves when they thought they were getting back at someone else?

To his relief, she was sitting in the hall outside their door with her back against the wall, hugging her knees to her chest. Most of the lights were off, but a few lamps were lit on tables along the way. Jared released a relieved sigh and settled down beside her.

“Hey,” he said.

“Hey.” She scrubbed a hand beneath her nose.

“You know I didn’t mean it, right?”

She fastened her gaze on her feet. “Didn’t mean what?”

“That I don’t want you a part of the picture.”

Lacie rolled her eyes to the ceiling, looking everywhere but at him. She leaned her head against the wall. “You’re so confusing sometimes.”

“I know,” he said. “And I’m sorry.”

She let her gaze drift. Tiredness and sorrow rimmed her startlingly green eyes, along with something else too. She skewered him with a look that let him know she wasn’t kidding around any longer.

“Why do you want to be with someone like that?”

“Like what, Tia?”

“Yeah. It seems wrong that she’s giving you this ultimatum. That you can’t have your old friends if you want to be with her. That’s not how a relationship should work.”

Jared pinched his eyes closed and expelled a breath. Lacie voiced the very thing he’d been struggling with since his goodbye kiss with Tia. Ugh. If only he’d broken up with her then. Tia had given him the perfect opening for it. He could have wished her well. He could have moved on.

“You’re right,” he said. She made him sound like such a pansy, which was the worst insult he could receive. Of all people, Lacie knew how hard Jared worked to be as strong as he could be. To imply that someone could override him that easily? That he would allow someone to override him? She was right. He just didn’t know what to do about it.

“Then why do you like her?”

Tia was beautiful and confident. Driven. Like an idiot, though, the only thing Jared could think of to say was that he liked kissing her, and he couldn’t tell Lacie that. That would make him sound like the most superficial of all male specimens. There were other things about her he admired too, weren’t there?

What did he like about her? Why should he consider giving up his oldest friend for her?

“All I’m saying, is that she’s my girlfriend. And respecting her requests would be the right thing to do—assuming we wanted to stay together.” Which was no longer the case.

“But can’t you see that just because you’re dating someone doesn’t mean they’re always right to ask for certain things? Just because you’re dating her, that doesn’t give her the right to dictate your choices.”

“You make it sound like I’m letting her tell me what to do.”

“Are you?”

He didn’t like the turn of this conversation, but she was also asking questions he couldn’t ignore.

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