When your boyfriend'''s best friend promises to look after you, the responsible thing to do is…
not notice how good he is at it.
Dylan enlisted and left me with an empty bed, a broken shower, his best friend Austin on unofficial watch duty, and a new job managing Java Zen—a coffee shop that is absolutely, definitely, one hundred percent haunted.
So that’s already a lot.
Austin is tattooed, leather-clad, and dangerously competent with his hands. The kind of man you notice even when you’re trying very hard not to.
I’ve been trying very hard not to.
It would be easier if he hadn’t always been there. Watching. Quiet. Just on the edges. I told myself it was harmless. I was wrong. So very, very wrong.
Because now Dylan is thousands of miles away, and Austin’s attention doesn’t feel harmless anymore.
It feels like want.
And every time he fixes something in the house—the light fixture, the shower, my resolve—the guilt in my stomach gets harder to ignore. At the kitchen counter. Outside my bedroom door. In a steam-filled bathroom where I was absolutely not wearing more than a towel. (And yes. There was a moment. No, I’m not talking about it.)
Here’s what I keep telling myself:This is just loneliness. The tension is in my head. Austin would never cross that line. The coffee shop is definitely haunted and that is a separate, equally pressing problem. None of this means anything.
Except Dylan’s calls are getting fewer. Secrets about his military service are starting to surface. The ghost situation at Java Zen is escalating. And Austin? He’s looking at me like he’s been waiting—patiently, infuriatingly, impossibly—for me to finally look back.
The problem is…
I think I already have.
His Best Friend is a steamy, slow-burn romantic comedy featuring forbidden attraction, forced proximity, a quietly obsessed hero, two possible ghosts, and a very inconvenient emotional spiral.
Genre: Romance
not notice how good he is at it.
Dylan enlisted and left me with an empty bed, a broken shower, his best friend Austin on unofficial watch duty, and a new job managing Java Zen—a coffee shop that is absolutely, definitely, one hundred percent haunted.
So that’s already a lot.
Austin is tattooed, leather-clad, and dangerously competent with his hands. The kind of man you notice even when you’re trying very hard not to.
I’ve been trying very hard not to.
It would be easier if he hadn’t always been there. Watching. Quiet. Just on the edges. I told myself it was harmless. I was wrong. So very, very wrong.
Because now Dylan is thousands of miles away, and Austin’s attention doesn’t feel harmless anymore.
It feels like want.
And every time he fixes something in the house—the light fixture, the shower, my resolve—the guilt in my stomach gets harder to ignore. At the kitchen counter. Outside my bedroom door. In a steam-filled bathroom where I was absolutely not wearing more than a towel. (And yes. There was a moment. No, I’m not talking about it.)
Here’s what I keep telling myself:This is just loneliness. The tension is in my head. Austin would never cross that line. The coffee shop is definitely haunted and that is a separate, equally pressing problem. None of this means anything.
Except Dylan’s calls are getting fewer. Secrets about his military service are starting to surface. The ghost situation at Java Zen is escalating. And Austin? He’s looking at me like he’s been waiting—patiently, infuriatingly, impossibly—for me to finally look back.
The problem is…
I think I already have.
His Best Friend is a steamy, slow-burn romantic comedy featuring forbidden attraction, forced proximity, a quietly obsessed hero, two possible ghosts, and a very inconvenient emotional spiral.
Genre: Romance
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