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347: First to say Hey
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 373: First conversation
Avery's POVI did not eat breakfast.I stood in the kitchen for a while, looking at the gap in the fence, and then I put on my jacket and I went over. The street outside was quiet in the way it always was this early, nobody out yet, just the sound of my own footsteps on the pavement.It was early. His car was still in the drive. I did not check for Carter's. I knocked before I could stand there long enough to change my mind.Liam opened the door.He looked at me the way he had been looking at me every time we accidentally crossed parts since our falling out."Are you looking for Jade? She's in her room." he said."I need to talk to you," I said, before he could turn around and walk away.He stepped back to let me in.We went to the kitchen. I did not sit down. He leaned against the counter and crossed his arms and waited, like as if he knew exactly what I was going to say."Is your dad home?" I said.Something crossed his face. "He left early. Why?""Because what I am about to tell yo
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 372: My bestfriend
Avery's POVJade was in our kitchen when I came back in.She did not ask what happened. She looked at my face and she knew that it must not have been good.I took the chair across from her.Neither of us said anything."She told you everything," Jade said. Not as a question."Yes."She looked at the table. I watched her face change from different expressions. She had been living with Carter in that house for almost five months. Carter at her breakfast table. Carter's shoes in the hallway."Are you okay?" she said finally."I do not know yet. I think knowing the truth is better. Even when it is this.""Is it?"I nodded slowly."What are you going to do?""Tell Liam.""When?""Tomorrow. I have been waiting for him to talk to me for weeks now. Maybe I just need to approach him physically first."She looked at me for a second."Do you know what you are going to say?""Not yet. But it has to be all of it. Not a bridged account. Everything.""He is not going to take it easily.""I know.""H
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 371: What she knew
Avery's POVShe stood across from me in the kitchen and did not sit down, and I understood that she needed to be on her feet for this the same way I needed to be standing rather than seated. Some conversations required that. The ability to move if you needed to. The option to turn away."Carter told me before we married that he had done things he was not proud of," she said. "He said there was money he had moved through a company that was not entirely clean, and that he had paid people to keep quiet about it. He was not detailed. I did not push him to be. I told myself that everyone had a past and that what mattered was the man he was now, not the man he had been then."She paused."I believed that because I wanted to," she said. "I want you to know I am not confused about that."I held that. She had known there was something beneath the surface and she had chosen not to dig. I understood that. I had done the same thing with Dean, year after year, telling myself the situation was mana
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 370: Seeing Jade's mom
Avery's POVI stood outside the door for a long time before I knocked.I had knocked on this door thousands of times. I knew the sound it made from both sides. I knew the gap under it let in a draught in winter and that the handle stuck slightly if you turned it too fast. I had been in and out of this house since I was eight years old, done homework at that table, eaten there, waited for Jade to finish getting ready while she ran late for everything.Now Liam lived there.And Carter Harrington.The man whose name was on a document with my biological father. Who probably knows what arrangement that kept my biological father away from me before I was born. Who had built a respectable life on top of that and moved into this house four months ago when he married Jade's mom, and who I had been eating next door to and passing on the path and nodding at over the fence ever since, without knowing what that name actually meant to my own life.I had not known.I should not have had to know.But
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 369: Harder questions
Avery's POVMy mom was at the kitchen table when I came downstairs, hands wrapped around a mug of tea, staring at nothing. The morning light through the window made her look older than I had ever noticed before, or maybe I was only seeing it now because I finally understood what she had been carrying beneath the ordinary face I had known my whole life.She looked up when I walked in."Avery," she said. "I did not think you would want to see me this morning.""I need to ask you some things," I said, taking the chair across from her. "Harder things than last night. Are you able to do that right now, or do you need more time?""I owe you whatever time it takes," she said. "Ask.""How much money. Total. Everything he took from us over the two years he lived here. I want the real number, not a rounded guess."My mom closed her eyes."I never let myself add it up properly," she said. "Because I think if I had seen the total, I would not have been able to keep functioning day to day. But if
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 368: more questions
Avery's POVPorter Construction Ltd.Registered 1998.Carter Harrington. D. Porter.We had found it in under ten minutes once Jade remembered the right search terms.Jade and I were at the reading table in my room looking at it on the screen and neither of us said anything."It is real," Jade said."It is real."There was something about seeing it there again. Names on a document, a registration date, a company that had existed and folded before I could read. Not a story someone was telling me. A record. Something that had existed independent of anyone's memory of it, immune to the way time changed what people thought they remembered.I thought about all the conversations I had had with Jade over the years about Dean."What do we do now?" she asked."Tonight, nothing. We sleep on it. And tomorrow I ask my mom if she knows the name Carter Harrington beyond just having him as a neighbor.""And if she does," Jade said."Then we know what this is."Jade looked at me."Are you okay?" she a
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 084: Something's off
Liam's POVI picked her out before she had even reached the side path.The grey beanie. The hood up over it. Hands jammed into the pockets of the hoodie. She was walking the way she walked when she was trying to make herself smaller, head a little down, shoulders pulled in, none of the usual square
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 083: Nobody
Avery's POVI did not move for a while.I was standing at the sink with my back against it and my eyes closed and the two tests sitting on the porcelain beside me, and the word negative was doing something to my body that I had not been prepared for. It was not a clean relief. It was not joy. It wa
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 082: Negative
Avery's POVI got into my car without looking back at the pharmacy door.My hand was not steady on the key at all and I tried several times before I got it turned on. I turned the engine over on the second try and pulled out before I had even checked my mirror. I took the back road out of the carpa
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 081: Pharmacy visit
Avery's POVI looked at the message on my phone for a long time before I did anything with it.'Are you home? I have been trying to reach you all afternoon.'He had sent it forty minutes ago, and my phone had been on silent in my pocket since the lecture hall that morning, which meant there were pr
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