Page 3 of Taken By the Bad Boy
There had been a time where Caleb wanted to venture into the big city, but Pete had stayed at Halloween Point and married his childhood sweetheart, Emily.Emily also happened to be Mae’s best friend.
“Is Emily over there right now?”Caleb asked.He hadn’t paid attention to who entered the store.
Pete laughed and pulled out his cell phone.“Yep, my wife is.They’re enjoying a cup of coffee, as Mae opens up the shop before heading to work.”
Emily worked at the bakery.It was one of the reasons Mae had expanded her bookstore to include a coffee shop service, as well as offering small treats.They were the closest of friends.
He and Pete were just a few years older than Mae and Emily, but he remembered her.Mae had been a bookworm, and Emily had been into heavy metal, dying her hair black and wearing lots of band t-shirts.They were like chalk and cheese, and yet they had somehow made a friendship that lasted a long time.
Caleb couldn’t believe he was doing this, but he wanted to know more.He wanted all the details of what Emily was getting out of Mae.
“Ask her what they’re talking about,” Caleb said.He had another hour before his first client.
“Dude, seriously?You want me to ask my wife about her friend?”
“I want you to ask her what they’re talking about.”
Pete looked at him, and then shook his head.“So, Mae is more than just an easy fuck?”
“Don’t call her that,” Caleb said.
“It’s what you call all the others.”
“Look, it has been a long time since I’ve been with anyone else, okay.”He didn’t like to admit it, but for a long time, he’d been into Mae.In fact, back at high school, he had found her so adorable.The way she had to keep pushing her glasses up her nose, and she constantly had her head in a book.He figured it was because her grandfather owned the bookstore.
She never hung out with guys.It was always Mae and Emily.She’d been Emily’s maid of honor at the wedding, and he had to dance with her, and it had been amazing.
He’d tried to put every feeling he had for Mae at the back of his mind, but that had been next to impossible.She was everywhere, and he didn’t want to ever stop thinking about her.
And now, he couldn’t get her out of his mind.
Chapter Two
“So, what are you goingto do about it?”Emily asked.
“Nothing.It was a brief moment of insanity, and it meant nothing.”
