Ascend: A Single Mom, Marriage of Convenience, Friends to Lovers Romance by Swati MH

Author:Swati MH [MH, Swati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kismet Publishing
Published: 2023-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

I’ve got my arms wrapped around my knees on my bed, a small empty box of Nerds lying next to me, and I’m picking at a string of yarn on the top of my woolen sock when I hear the door open and close downstairs. My pulse instantly spikes, and I look toward my closed door as if it’ll open at any moment.

Garrett’s footsteps resound on the stairs and I swear, I hear them stop in front of my door before they keep moving. And just as my heart had jumped at his arrival, it thuds back into place with the click of his bedroom door.

I turn in place, putting my covered feet on the rug below me and grasping the edge of my bed with my fists. My knees bounce as I worry my bottom lip between my teeth.

He never responded.

Maybe he’s done responding. Maybe we’re done before we even truly began.

I don’t know when I made it to my door, but I find my palm on the knob, staring down at my hand. The air stalls in my lungs as I pull my door open and pad across the hall to wait in front of his door. I’m not sure what I’m expecting while I mentally tell my heart to cease its thundering.

My brows pull in when, before my knuckles have even made contact with his door, it opens. A part of me wonders if my thudding heart somehow leapt out and slammed against it, but those thoughts vanish as my eyes trail up the most delectable washboard abs, stalling there to then run back down the softest happy trail I’ve ever seen. It disappears into the elastic of dark gray sweatpants. And though I force my eyes back up his bare torso, I don’t miss the outline of a rather large and promising-looking coc–

“Bells.”

My eyes dash up to meet Garrett’s blues, and I’m both embarrassed and annoyed. I was sort of hoping to peruse my way up on my own time. “Hi.”

Garrett blinks, only a hint of a smile playing on his lips. “Is everything okay?” He leans forward, poking his head to look down the hallway toward Meera’s room, and notices that it's wide open. “Where’s Meera?”

“Sleeping over with my mom,” I stammer, not understanding why heat travels to my cheeks.

“Oh, okay.”

I take a breath, my chest rising and falling as I search for the words I’m looking for–all the words I’ve wanted to say out loud for both our benefit–but end up with, “I’m sorry.” My face falls and I clasp my hands in front of me. “I’m sorry I didn’t see it . . . I’m sorry I didn’t know before.” My eyes glaze over as I meet his gaze on me.

His face gives nothing away. “Do you see . . . do you know me now?

My eyes well and I shake my head. “It was never a question of seeing you, pilot. You’re like the sun; I couldn’t miss your light, your warmth, or your pull, even with my eyes closed.

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