All Chapters of Falling for My Best Friend's Brother: Chapter 191 - Chapter 200

Liam's POVShe opened the door before I knocked.She had obviously been watching for me from the window, which told me she had been sitting there doing exactly what I had been doing on my side of the wall, waiting for the other person to arrive so the thinking could stop being solo.She looked tired. Not the kind of tiredness that came from a bad night's sleep, although that too. The kind that came from thinking about something for way longer than it deserved."Come in," she said.The kitchen was warm. She had the kettle on and two mugs already out, which meant she had probably expected me to come over since she sent me the message thread. I sat down at the table and she poured coffee into both mugs and put one in front of me and sat down across from me with hers. We looked at each other for a second."Did you sleep?" she said."Not much," I replied. "You?""Maybe two hours," she said. "I kept going back to the photo.""The angle of it," I said."The angle," she agreed. "Someone was o

Avery's POVHis flat was exactly as I remembered it.Football memorabilia on one wall, training schedule pinned to the fridge, shoes lined up by the door. He set his coffee down on the counter and turned to face me with the expression he had been building since he opened the door. Settled. Reasonable. The version of himself he deployed when he thought he had the upper hand."I'm glad you came," he said."I'm sure you are," I said."Look, last night got out of hand," he said. "I want you to know that the message, the way it was sent, that was not how I wanted to handle this. Brandon overstepped.""Brandon overstepped," I repeated."Things got heated," he said. "I saw you in that car with him and I reacted. I am not proud of it." He looked at me with the expression he used when he was performing sincerity. "But the fact that I reacted like that should tell you something, Avery. About how much I still care.""It tells me something," I said. "Just not what you think it tells me."He studi

Avery's POVJade opened the door before I knocked.She stepped back to let me in and I went through and the door closed and the warmth of the house hit me and for one second it felt like every other time I had walked through this door in thirteen years. Jade then turned around and I saw her face and it did not feel like that at all.She was holding her phone. The photo was still on the screen."How long," she said."The kiss was last night," I said. "The feelings have been building for longer than that.""How much longer.""A few weeks," I said. "I did not act on anything until last night. Nothing happened between us until last night."She set the phone down on the side table face down and looked at me with the expression she used when she was deciding which version of angry to lead with."You sat in this room with me," she said. "You sat across from me at that table and I asked you directly, Avery. I looked you in the eye and I asked you and you said nothing was happening.""At the t

Avery's POVWe both turned at the same time to see who it was and Liam stood in the doorway.He looked at me first. Then at Jade. Then back at me, taking in the red around my eyes and the particular stillness of the room that told him exactly what kind of conversation he had walked into."I'm sorry. I guess I interrupted something." He apologised."The door was open," Jade said. Her voice had changed the moment she saw him. The small softening that had started to happen while I was talking had gone completely and what had replaced it was something harder and more directed. "What are you doing here?""I didn't realize you guys were still here," he said."Right," she said. "Of course you knew she was coming over.""Jade." His voice was even."No." She turned to face him fully and she had her arms crossed and the expression she wore when she had decided to say every single thing she was thinking. "Do not Jade me. You have been in this town for less than one semester. One semester. And yo

Avery's POVWe walked back to my house without saying anything.The street was the same street it always was. Saturday morning, a few cars, a neighbour two doors down washing her car with the radio on. The ordinary world carrying on with absolutely no awareness of what had just happened thirty seconds away behind a closed door.Liam walked beside me and did not try to fill the silence and I was grateful for that because I did not have anything to say yet. I was still carrying the weight of Jade's last two words and trying to figure out where to put them and whether they were the kind of thing you put down eventually or the kind that stayed with you permanently.*You're dead to me.*She had said it like she meant it.I kept thinking about her face when she said it. Not twisted or hot with anger the way it had been for most of the argument. Just flat. Controlled. Like she had decided on the words before she said them and had gone over them enough times in her head that by the time they