Page 68 of Feels Like Love
She took a sip of wine, brow arched. “Are you?” When I took too long to answer, she asked, “Wren?”
“No.” I rolled my lips between my teeth. I debated telling her, but I couldn’t hold it in any longer. “But we’ve kissed.”
“Yas! I knew it.” She fist-pumped the air.
I curled my legs beneath me. “What?”
“I knew you had a thing for him.”
“Yeah, but now I’m lying to my brother and jeopardizing their relationship.” I didn’t mention the coaching. It was too embarrassing. And for a moment, it was fun to gush with a girlfriend. To feel like anything could happen, even when I knew it was impossible.
“You know my friend Alexis?”
I nodded. I’d met Harper’s friends, Alexis, Juliana, and Lauren, when they’d come to visit. Though, I’d spent the most time with Juliana since she visited more often than the others.
“Alexis’s husband, Preston, used to be her daughter’s nanny.”
I tried not to react, but I couldn’t help it. My jaw dropped. “Her nanny?”
“Yes. And she really struggled with that. And Alexis’s business partner, Wolfe—” She shook her head, clearly trying not to smile. “He’s married to his best friend’s daughter. Hisdaughter.”
“Wow.” I blinked a few times. “That’s…that must be quite the age gap.”
She nodded. “At least twenty years, but you wouldn’t know it because Sumner and Wolfe belong together. Everyone can see it.”
“Even her dad?” I asked.
“I don’t know all the details, but eventually, he came around. He even walked Sumner down the aisleandserved as Wolfe’s best man.”
I nodded, trying to absorb all that information. Even so, I couldn’t imagine Liam ever “coming around.” And if that really was the case, was I willing to cut my brother out of my life? Was I willing to ruin Bennett’s oldest and most important friendship? What about River and how this would affect him?
I was getting ahead of myself.
“You don’t know how Liam will react until you give him the chance.”
I scoffed. “Oh. I know exactly how he’ll react. And it won’t be pretty.”
“Even so, it was just a kiss,” Harper said, but it was so much more than that. At least for me. “And your brother needs to grow up.”
I laughed and lifted my glass to toast hers.That’s right. Why did my brother get to have all the fun?
Chapter Seventeen
“Where were you?” Liam asked when I joined him and the rest of the guys in Tristan’s backyard.
Making out with your sister.
“Reading bedtime stories to River.”
He frowned. “It’s kind of late, isn’t it? He usually goes to bed earlier.”
“Oh, well, Wren let him stay up a little later. And he was bouncing off the walls, so it took a bit to calm him down.”
He chuckled. “If I could bottle his energy and sell it, I’d be rich.”
“It’s not like you’re hurting for money.”
Neither was I, but I wasn’t raking in the cash like Liam either. Plus, I’d noticed a number of new purchases lately. In the past year alone, he’d traded in his old truck for a brand-new model. He’d been doing all the projects on his house, so… yeah.
