Winning her Brother's Best Friend (Tea for Two, #2) by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: brother's best friend, friends to lovers, second chance
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Published: 2017-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT EVENING, RYAN was regretting his decision to have the others over. It was torture—to act like he was happy, social, normal, when all he wanted to do was slink away and brood in peace.

It was worse because Ginny was right there, sitting a few feet away from him, smiling and laughing with the others.

She was quieter than usual and not quite as vividly bright. But she didn’t look like her heart had been stomped to pieces the way his had been.

Because it hadn’t been.

She’d been upset when he’d left her that night—almost a week ago now. He knew he had hurt her feelings by blowing her off the way he had. But she probably knew as well as he did that a future together was impossible, so she’d been able to come to terms with it.

He was the one still struggling to convince himself that she just could never be his.

They’d finished off his basement and then eaten hamburgers, chips, and vegetables with dip. They were sitting around on his porch when Emma stood up, announcing she was going to feed the ducks.

There was a pond on his property, just over a hill from the house, and he had an assortment of domesticated ducks that lived there, along with any visiting mallards and geese that happened to be passing by.

Emma had always loved the ducks.

Noah put down his beer and started to get up to join his girlfriend, but Emma put a hand on his shoulder to stop him from rising. “Ginny’s going to come with me,” Emma said.

Ginny blinked. “Okay.” She was clearly surprised but not opposed to the idea. She stood up from the floor where she’d been sitting and brushed off the back of her jeans.

Ryan forced himself to look away from the tight curve of her butt and the slim length of her legs. Even dressed as casually as she was right now, she was gorgeous, and every nerve in his body seemed attuned to that fact.

“I guess I’m going to feed the ducks,” Ginny said with a little smile. “Maybe some of you can clean up while we’re gone so I won’t get bullied into helping.”

She was clever and funny and lit up every room she walked into. She might be slightly subdued this evening, but she obviously wasn’t brokenhearted.

Not like he was.

With a sigh, Ryan heaved himself to his feet and started collecting empty plates and cans scattered around the room, mostly for something to do that might distract him.

He was in the kitchen, emptying out the remaining beer and soda from cans so he could put them in recycling, when someone else came up behind him. Patrick, carrying the last of the plates and napkins.

“What’s up with you, man?” Patrick asked with a quizzically cocked eyebrow.

“Nothing’s up,” Ryan replied, hearing impatience in his tone. He couldn’t help it. He really wished people would stop asking him what was wrong when he was incapable of telling them. “Why would anything be up?”

“Because you’re acting weird.

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