IN LOVE WITH MY FATHER`S BILLONAIRE BESTFRIEND
AR
morn
een part of my world. I knew that voice. It was the voice I had heard countless ti
eathe. I just lay there, my eyes still closed
I wa
hair out of my face and opened my eyes,
here
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g in
t t
My.
thought it might explode. I sat up slowly, clutching the blanket tightl
hose deep, intense eyes I'd always loved-were wide with shock
up quickly. He ran a hand through his hair,
pieces, like shattered glass slicing through my thoughts. I re
,
ealization hit me. I had just sl
forty-six.
have
with him. Ever since I was a teenager, he had been my secret crush, the
out it. They used to tease me relentlessly
ould whisper, elbowing me as I stare
im one day," Clara would
a joke to me
er when I turned sixteen and suddenly realized that I wasn't a kid a
ew Zayden was coming over. I spent hours doing my
e dressing like that?" he had said, raisi
thing about fashion before rushing upstairs. But
k in front of him so I could bend down and pick it up, giving
ping he'd notice my pedicure. I'd heard somewhere that men had a thing
did, Zayden always
last
Zayden said, his voice br
had been staring at h
real," I whispered. "Te
s voice low and rough. "
e air like a dark cl
m your father's best friend, Scarlett. I'm way t
ce trembling. "And you can't
my words had phy
voice tight. "Don't make thi
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bling to the surface. "Admitting that you've
rlet
p. "You think I haven't noticed the way you've looked at me all these years?
looked away, like he cou
rising. "But I'm not a kid anymore. And you knew tha
ce inches from mine. "I was drunk," he sa
u saying it didn
dn't
hed between us, he
e barely above a whisper. "Admit
breath. When he opened them again, they were fi
nt," he said quietly. "It ca
, I thought I might cry. But I didn'
e cold. "If that's how
find something-some reason to stay, maybe. But then he nodded
for the handle, t
doorway, was the last per
fat