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My Best Friend's Boyfriend

E-BookEPUB0 - No protectionE-Book
225 Seiten
Englisch
Pink Bloom Presserschienen am27.02.2024
David and Scott Williams are in love with the same girl, again.
Haley has never been happier than in her relationship with Scott. But she can no longer deny bad-boy David has gotten under her skin.
Madison has always been insecure in love. The only satisfying romances in her life come from the classic novels she reads. Book-boyfriends are easy to fall for, but the real world is sadly lacking in swoon-worthy heroes. And just when she'd thought she might've found her Mr. Darcy, he fell in love with her best friend...
Two brothers in love with the same girl.
Two best friends in love with the same guy.
A love triangle within a love triangle...mehr
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KlappentextDavid and Scott Williams are in love with the same girl, again.
Haley has never been happier than in her relationship with Scott. But she can no longer deny bad-boy David has gotten under her skin.
Madison has always been insecure in love. The only satisfying romances in her life come from the classic novels she reads. Book-boyfriends are easy to fall for, but the real world is sadly lacking in swoon-worthy heroes. And just when she'd thought she might've found her Mr. Darcy, he fell in love with her best friend...
Two brothers in love with the same girl.
Two best friends in love with the same guy.
A love triangle within a love triangle...
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9788887269000
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Format Hinweis0 - No protection
FormatFormat mit automatischem Seitenumbruch (reflowable)
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum27.02.2024
ReiheJust Friends
Reihen-Nr.3
Seiten225 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.13994606
Rubriken
Genre9201

Inhalt/Kritik

Leseprobe

Two
Madison
Two Months Ago

Madison fled the room and closed the door behind her, pausing a moment in the hall to catch her breath. Her hand was still wrapped around the doorknob, and her rib cage bobbed up and down in panicked gasps. Tears blurred her vision, and her temples were exploding with a mix of fear, shame, and the first signs of a killer hangover. Now that she was alone, the enormity of what she d almost done hit her in the chest, guilt stabbing at her heart. No, she didn t have a second to spare thinking about the betrayal. Her number one priority was to get the hell out of her grandparents house.

The Smithson country mansion was a two-story building with ten plus bedrooms and a three-acre garden with a pool. Even if the property belonged to her grandparents, Madison and her cousins had basically grown up here. But now the familiar walls of the upper-floor hall seemed to be pressing in on Madison, ready to crush her in their wake.

No one was up here, save for the people in the room she d just left. Madison let go of the handle as if burnt by an electric shock and stumbled down the hall. She hopped down the stairs, careful not to trip on the hem of her bridesmaid dress, and paused on the last step to check the ground floor. The gardens were swarming with wedding guests, but the house itself was empty except for a few servers scurrying in and out of the kitchen.

All clear.

Running as fast as her high heels would allow, Madison covered the distance from the bottom of the stairs to the main door in a blur of lavender silk. Then she was out. No one had seen her, no one had called after her.

Good.

She could have handled a random relative or a guest, but if she d run into Alice, or worse, her mom, they would have seen right through her. And what if she d run into Georgiana?

The thought made her shiver, making her walk across the front-yard-turned-parking-lot all the more difficult. Her spiky heels kept sinking into the fine white gravel, causing her to stumble with every step as she traipsed toward her car. Madison considered taking off her shoes, but she doubted walking barefoot on pebbles would prove any more comfortable.

A few more wobbly steps got her to her SUV. With trembling hands, she fished her car keys out of her clutch to unlock it, then collapsed into the driver s seat. Only after hauling the door shut and putting a darkened window between her and the house did Madison finally feel safe.

She rested her head back against the seat, closing her eyes and taking a few deep breaths. When she d calmed down enough to drive, she kicked off her shoes, threw them onto the passenger seat, and put the car into drive. But the row of cars parked in front was too close for her to get out. She maneuvered the car back and forward a few times, trying to steer it at an angle that would allow her to exit, but the SUV was too big.

Losing any composure she d just tried to recover, Madison started screaming and crying, hitting the wheel in violent blows of desperation. Why did nothing in her life ever go according to plan?

Why? WHY? She kept shouting it over and over again. WHY?

When her throat began to hurt from the screaming, and her hands started to go numb from slamming her palms against leather-covered plastic, Madison instead gripped the wheel and desperately turned her head left and right in search of a solution. But she was one hundred percent trapped. What now? She couldn t go back to the reception and seek out the cars owners. No, there were too many people on her avoid-at-all-cost list she didn t want to risk bumping into: Ethan, Vicky, Rose, Alice, Tyler, Georgianaâ¦

With a sinking heart, Madison realized she d never be able to show her face at another family gathering ever again. Later; she d think about all that later. Now she had more pressing issues to solve. On a whim, Madison glanced at the rearview mirror-behind the SUV was nothing but spotless green grass and an intricate flower bed.

Well, sorry, Grandma, Madison thought as she switched the gear to reverse.

She hit the accelerator with enough force to jump up the curb separating the lawn from the gravel and reversed into the flower bed. Pushing the gear back to drive, she pressed her foot all the way down and the car screeched forward, leaving deep tire marks in its wake. Her grandparents otherwise pristine front garden, ruined. She d never hear the end of it if they found out it had been her, but at the moment she was too frenzied to care. Half of the family already hated her, so why not start working on pushing away the half that still cared about her?

The drive home seemed to take forever. When Madison finally pulled up in front of her building, she was still feeling nauseous. The pounding at her temples had not stopped, and the stomach-churning anxiety gnawing at her guts had not passed. She parked the car in her reserved spot, killed the engine, grabbed her shoes and clutch, and got out of the SUV barefooted holding up the hem of her dress-without heels, the skirt was too long.

Halfway to her building, Madison stopped dead in her tracks. Jack Sullivan was sitting on the front steps with a forlorn expression-the look of someone who d been waiting for a long time.

Perfect. Just freaking perfect!

If there was one person missing from Madison s avoid list at the wedding, it seemed the dude had decided to show up at her place instead. Oh, he wasn t here to see her-she knew that. Jack was here for Alice, her roommate. But the last thing Madison needed right now was to be reminded of another guy who d used her for easy sex and then forgotten all about her. Of another time she d been too quick to jump in bed with a dude she d just met. Of another betrayal that had almost cost Madison one of her best friends.

Jack didn t look like he was about to go away anytime soon, and Madison was too exhausted to wait for him to leave. She needed a shower, her bed, and a Xanax. Keys clutched tightly in her hands, she marched forward.

Madison, hey, Jack said, jumping up. I was-

Leave me alone, she replied. I don t want to talk to you.

Oh, okay. He backed off a step. Do you know when Alice will be home?

I said leave me alone! Madison yelled, brushing past him and shoving her key into the lock. She let herself in, then slammed the door in Jack s shocked face.

To hell with him, too.

In her room, she wrestled with the zipper to get out of the gown, threw the shoes in a corner, and headed to the bathroom for a hot shower. Thankfully, the apartment was empty. No one around to ask her what had happened or to demand an explanation for her shitty behavior, which she still didn t begin to understand herself.

Yes, her life was a mess. Guys hated her, or used her and then threw her in the garbage once they d had their fun. And her cousin Georgiana was the queen bee of bitches. But nothing can justify the fact that I almost slept with Georgiana s husband on their wedding day.

Was it because she d wanted revenge? Or was she just so pathetic that even the most insignificant flattery from a handsome man made her lose control of herself?

What s wrong with me? Madison asked the empty bathroom.

She tried to wash away the shame and humiliation with the scorching water, rubbing her skin raw until it was all blotched and red. But no amount of scrubbing could cleanse the emotional stains off Madison s conscience.

Wrapped in a towel, wet hair loose on her shoulders, Madison collapsed on the bed ready to forget she existed. Unfortunately, the world wasn t as ready to forget her. Just as she was starting to doze off-thanks only to anti-anxiety drops-her phone rang. The muffled ringtone came from inside the clutch she d dropped on the desk, only a few feet away from the bed but out of reach. Madison glared at the small bag, resentful someone had woken her when all she wanted was to be unconscious. She was pondering what would bother her more-to keep listening to the ringtone, or to get up and silence it-when the sound died on its own. Finally, something goes right for once.

But Madison had only just started getting cozy again on the pillows when the ringtone filled the room once more. This time, she dragged herself out of bed to find out who was calling.

Vicky.

Despite the way her cousin had reacted back at their grandparents house-preferring comprehension over judgment after walking in on her sister s husband kissing a bridesmaid-Madison groaned. She stared at the phone still ringing in her hands, but couldn t bring herself to answer. The shame was too much. No matter if Vicky was the most understanding person in the world, Madison wasn t ready to talk to her. Filled with guilt, she let the call go unanswered, hoping her cousin would give up.

It didn t happen. Nothing ever happened the way Madison wished it to. When Vicky called again, Madison let that call, too, go unanswered. Then she turned off her phone and sank back on the bed, finally sure nothing would distract her from the void of her existence.

At some point she dozed off, and she must have slept for a few hours, because when she woke up the sun was starting to set. Madison straightened up against the headboard, her neck sore from falling asleep on wet hair. She blinked, trying to clear her vision. A shiver ran through her entire body; the air conditioning in the apartment was set on a low temperature, and the towel she d been wearing had almost entirely slipped off.

Madison rubbed her arms...
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