In Love With My Brother's Best Friend

d lately. "Peel me some

etly, filled

t left me with

in pain and glaring at me resentfully. "Road

een in an ac

o distraught he crashed into a roadside tree an

rom yesterday, I asked casuall

s over Belen. He snuck off to see her abroad, came back like he'd lost his soul. Look at that pathet

didn't send a singl

istory had frozen at his mes

ven worth

ly at the hydrangeas on the table. "Hey, aren't tho

ut the weekly flowers still a

em all, and tossed

d. "They're blooming fi

ut because Julian sent them, I'd

ut in, cut flowers without ro

, no matter how much I like them, they won't last.

oticed my low mood and said h

did I realize it was

and pretty, with a soft, charming

rm in a cast, in

top-tier elite, th

the valley, freshly flown in from

a card game with friend

, my eyes uncontrollabl

hite gown appea

as B

, she'd grown eve

ence; now she carried the p

eted me excitedly. "So

s were com

were the only two girls our age in o

r smarts and charm, boys preferred her com

ulian li

y emotions, but t

n my heart seeme

had been too long or because I was bad

ping for a topic. "The

avelt. No idea how he knew I love lilies of the valley. The

elicate and short-lived, the

nsit, yet Julian secured this ma

My fault, really-I neve

e once. His assistant, smilin

piness, I missed the hint and

the assistan

her favorit

opped, probably because

he didn't even bothe

to discover Belen's, pull

that the flowers were bea

ever you like, I'

ven know th

e. Detail

tails. So does t