Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

by Emma R. Alban

“And this is more interesting?” “Figuring out why they act as though they hate each other but look like smitten schoolchildren? Of course! It’s a mystery. I love a good mystery. Promise you’ll at least try and find out?”

what did she think, she’d meet a pretty boy and suddenly she’d want to be married for the first time in her life?

That went astoundingly well for something they didn’t plan.

To know that joy—even if this is the heartache she feels forever as a result—it’s worth having known it even once.

“Break your heart, don’t they, the Demerovens?”

“Does it ever stop?” “The heartache?” “Yes,” she whispers. He smiles so sadly she thinks she could fall back to pieces. “No. But we’ll find you someone someday who will take some of the pain.