Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

by Abby Jimenez

I rubbed my temple tiredly. It wasn’t just Neil’s cheating. Bri and Derek were the only ones who knew the real reason why I wasn’t giving him another chance. Bri wouldn’t pee on Neil if he was on fire after what he’d put me through the last couple of years. But everyone else? Everyone loved Neil. My parents, our friends. He was the life of the party, everyone’s buddy. “I mean, they all started off sympathetic enough,” I mumbled. “How could he? I hope you threw him out on his ass. Blah blah blah. But then Jessica’s birthday came up and everyone went to the lake house, and Neil and I weren’t there, and I think it finally started to hit everyone that life as we all knew it for the last seven years is over. Then it suddenly flipped to, Well, have you considered counseling? It was just that one woman, he made a mistake and he knows it. I think he’s sleeping on a futon at Cam’s,” I added wearily. Bri made a disgusted noise. “The man’s a surgeon. He’s gotta sleep on his twenty-two-year-old’s sofa? He can’t get a damn apartment?” “I think the second he does, this whole thing suddenly becomes real.” “Good. I hope his dick shrivels up and falls off. For real.” She picked up her iced coffee. “What did your dad say about it?” she asked, talking around the straw. “It’s going to piss you off,” I warned. “Tell me.” “He said that Neil is brilliant and that sometimes brilliant people make mundane mistakes.” She scoffed. “Yeah, well, you’re brilliant too, and I don’t see you humping anesthe...