The Hate of Loving You (Falling Trilogy Book 3) by Maya Hughes

Author:Maya Hughes [Hughes, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

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The football-field-sized giant box of blue and yellow wouldn’t have been my first idea of where to take Bay for her day off.

But here we were at Ikea, wandering through the bedroom section, picking out furniture for an imaginary two-bedroom apartment, and she looked like I’d taken her on a shopping spree through Tiffany’s. Her happiness spilled over, making it hard for me to stop grinning like a maniac.

“What do you think of the Bingsta chair?” She tapped the tiny pencil against her bottom lip. “Does it scream bedroom comfort?”

Her gaze swung to mine, looking for my actual opinion.

Stifling my grin, I nodded. “The perfect addition to any room.”

“How about that one?” She pointed to the other set-up in the mini apartment, complete with a bathroom with large writing on the toilet stating this wasn’t to be used as an actual bathroom. How many mishaps had it taken for them to put that sign up?

I sat in the chair with a higher back than most and kicked my feet up.

Bay sat on the edge of the Malm bed with a paper tape measure around her neck, tapping her golf pencil against the order card.

For a second, I could believe this was what we were really doing, finally moving in together after graduating college. Merging our lives and our things together and picking out some we’d both like.

She looked to me expectantly.

I came back to where we really were and what we were really doing. Playing pretend. A pretend I’d dreamed about on the nights Bay floated into my dreams even after I’d vowed I’d moved on.

“The chair feels great.”

“Nice.” Her eyes twinkled and her smile was megawatt-bright as she made a note on the card with the name and quantity.

“What about the bed?” She lay back on it. Her sunglasses rested on top of her head.

The first few steps inside the store, she’d been hesitant, holding onto me like she was afraid she’d be swept away at any second.

After we’d made it through the living room section, she’d popped her glasses on top of her head after I’d suggested she was drawing more attention to herself by keeping them on.

With them off, no one paid us any attention. They were all focusing on how the hell to pronounce the names of everything from the ottomans to the dishtowels.

I lay beside her, both of us with our feet still on the ground, a reminder of how inappropriate it would be to touch her the way I wanted to. “The bed feels fine, but I think we should do something about the ceiling. This will be a bitch to heat in winter.”

She rolled her head to the side laughing. “That’s what the cardboard from all these boxes is for.”

“A woman with a plan. Where to next?” I’d buy the whole damn store for her, if that was what she wanted.

Sitting up, she rubbed her hands together. “Kitchens. Who doesn’t love a good farmhouse sink?”

She took off in that direction, no longer keeping to my side.

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