The C Word by Michelle MacQueen & Ann Maree Craven

Author:Michelle MacQueen & Ann Maree Craven [MacQueen, Michelle & Craven, Ann Maree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

Julian smiled. She’d demanded a chapter where Jackson and Adele got a bit more steamy. Not on the page sex but pretty darn close to it.

—@DontTouchMyBooks: It’s my book, woman.

—@ShutUpAndDrive: Yes, and I’m your editor, so you have to do what I say.

—@DontTouchMyBooks: I don’t think that’s how that works.

—@ShutUpAndDrive: Give me the heat!

He laughed as he tried to think of a response. How could his best friend be a faceless person he met online? Sure, they went to the same school, but they’d never talked face to face. Yet, he thought about her almost as much as he thought about Addie, and that was saying something.

A throat cleared from the doorway, and he looked up to find Peyton watching him. “Hey, Pey. Didn’t know you were home from work.”

She glanced at the screen of her phone. “It’s almost eleven, Jules.

The late shift picked up at ten.” As if on cue, voices drifted up the stairs followed by the closing of the front door as their parents got home.

Julian sat up, LitGirl’s words from the week before rolling through his mind. She’d said maybe it was time he told his sister. A faceless girl online couldn’t be the only person he let in. Ever since their argument at the diner, things had been strained between the siblings, and he wasn’t used to fighting with Pey. Cooper, yes. They’d constantly warred but never with their sister.

She leaned against the doorframe, her arms crossed and her phone dangling from her fingers.

He lowered his eyes to the computer, needing the confidence just seeing LitGirl’s screen name gave him. Blowing out a breath, he motioned to the door. “Shut the door.”

“Julian.” Peyton scowled. “You can’t keep pushing me away.”

Julian’s lips tilted up into a wry smile. “I meant come inside and shut it. I want to talk to you.”

“Oh.” She shrugged and closed the door before crossing the room and perching on the corner of his desk. “This seems kind of ominous, bro. Talking isn’t really your style. Grunting is more you.”

He lifted his middle finger, and she laughed.

“Look, okay…um…” How did he say it? I’m writing a book sounded dumb. Check out my romance novel made him seem like a delusional idiot.

But this was Peyton. No matter how he said it, she wouldn’t judge him.

He lifted his computer and held it out to her. She raised an eyebrow but took it and scanned the open page, her eyes widening.

A few moments of her reading passed before she looked up at him. “Jules, is this what I think it is?”

He breathed deeply, pushing the words out on his next breath. “My book.”

“Your book?” she said, her words slow as if she couldn’t quite comprehend them. Excitement sparked in her eyes. “You wrote this? I thought maybe you’d started writing one, but this is a full book.” She stared at the screen again, a slow smile spreading across her lips.

“Except the ending,” he mumbled.

Standing, she moved to sit beside him on the bed to get more comfortable with the laptop resting on her legs.

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