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“Why does everyone find you so charming?” she teased. “Because, big sister, they’re correct.”
It was okay to be friends, I told myself. Maddy would want that. I hoped I wasn’t a liar.
The man I’d been talking to, the one I’d talked through an orgasm with just nights ago, whom I’d just told my sister I liked and she’d made me promise I’d give a chance to, was…was her ex-husband. The man who broke her heart. The man my father despised and because of whom he’d ruined an over twenty-year friendship.
I felt an emptiness in my chest I was unfamiliar with, as if I’d lost something in a different way than anything I’d lost before.
much; it’s eating me away inside. Why does it have to be you I can’t get out of my head? Why is it you I think about first thing when I wake up and last thing before I go to sleep?”
“Why is it you who makes me feel alive in ways I didn’t know were possible? The one person I can never have.”
“I want you too.” Our lips grazed when I spoke. “I feel you… Down to the marrow of my bones, I feel you, this rightness I didn’t even know I was missing. Like a part of me was waiting for you all along. No matter how hard I try, I can’t make it go away.”
He tasted like I knew he would—like sunshine and good food and every happy memory I had all rolled into one.
“You wanna mark me all up inside? Make it so everyone knows I’m yours? Because I am, Hutch. Maybe I shouldn’t be, but I am.”
“What are we going to do?” he asked when we parted. “I don’t know,” I answered honestly, but now that I’d had Ryder, I knew I couldn’t let him go.
Ryder still sat on the couch, his elbows on his knees, his hands covering his face. “Ryder?” He looked up at me but didn’t speak. “I don’t regret you.” “I don’t regret you either,” he replied.
What kind of man falls in…deep like?—I wasn’t sure what to call it—with his ex-wife’s brother?
“I’ll break my sister’s heart. Even if she doesn’t love him like that anymore, it’ll kill her to see me with the man she’d planned to spend her life with. My dad will never forgive me.” “No offense, but your dad is a dick and your sister is spoiled.”
