Suite Encounter: A Standalone Steamy Billionaire Romance by Sophie Brooks

Author:Sophie Brooks [Brooks, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

“Have you talked to her? Is she still mad?” I asked.

Over the phone, my sister laughed. “I’m beginning to see what it would’ve been like if you and I had gone to school together.”

“I’ve been giving her some space, like you said.” It hadn’t been easy, but thankfully, this was a big building. I’d done my best to stay off the floors where Romeo, and therefore Sadie, were working. “So spill.”

“She said you texted.”

“A time or two. She replied in pleasant but noncommittal ways. Is that a skill they teach you women in a class or something?”

“It’s a skill we develop after we deal with too much BS from men,” Becca responded. “But in answer to your question, I don’t think she’s mad. Just… cautious.”

“How so?”

But Becca, in a maddening little-sister way, didn’t answer that. “How are things between you and Reid?”

“We’re fine,” I said dismissively.

“Which means what—that you’re going to just completely ignore the fight you had?”

“Yeah. We’re guys.”

She sighed. “Reid said that he told you you had an idealized version of Sadie.”

“That’s not helping me ignore it.”

“I’m serious. I think he’s right. You have this mental image of her that probably doesn’t represent the way she really is.”

“So you’re saying she’s scum, and I somehow failed to notice it?”

Becca rolled her eyes—even though I couldn’t see it, I was a hundred percent sure she did. “I’m bringing it up because she probably has an idealized idea of you, too.”

“Me? She thinks I’m a rich soulless capitalist asshole. How is that idealized?”

“That’s part of it,” Becca said seriously. “She’s trying to reconcile the guy she thought you were with the man you’ve become.”

This conversation was giving me a headache. I walked through the kitchen, grabbing a beer on the way, and headed for my balcony. “So what ideal am I failing to live up to?”

“You’ve got to look at it from her point of view,” my sister said, as if I hadn’t been trying to do that all week. “Back then, all she had was her dad. She never had any siblings, and then suddenly you were there, giving her rides. Taking us out for ice cream. Being—for you—rather cool.”

“So I was the cool older brother she never had?”

“Yeah. You were very kind to her, driving her twice a day in your little red car. You made her feel special. And, as much as I hate to say this, you’re not ugly. If she had a crush, she wasn’t the only one of my friends who did.”

I smirked as I looked out at the lake. “Remember that cute little redhead you roomed with your junior year of college? She definitely had a crush on me.”

“Tell me about it. She never shut up about you.”

“Whatever happened to her?”

“She slept with Romeo.”

“Really?” I thought she had better taste than that. “Whatever happened to her?”

“We lost touch after college. Presumably she learned her lesson and stayed away from tall, dark, and handsome men for the rest of her life.”

“Hey,” I said, though I wasn’t sure if she was insulting me or Romeo.

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