I Love You Better – Jamie Bennett

She and I had skirmished some, but I had never dropped the hammer like this. “I’m going to call Heath and tell him you said that.” “Go ahead, you weak little snitch.” I slammed the door behind her and got back into bed. Screw getting dressed. Heath wasn’t happy when he got home that night. He had been acting strangely towards me for the last week or so, since I saw…

I didn’t let myself think about it. Because every time I thought of Marcos, I just pictured his wife, her hands protectively over her stomach. Protectively over their baby. “Mitzi said that you threatened her.” He wasn’t touching the plate of dinner in front of him on the table, he was just glaring at me. “God, you and your threats! A threat is something like, ‘I’m going to take a blade and carve my name into your cheek.’ I just told her to stay out of my room.” “It’s my room, because it’s my house,” he informed me.

“Mitzi is my housekeeper, and she can enter it as I see fit.” I gave him the finger. “See how this fits,” I suggested. He sighed and rubbed his eyes. “Evie, what the hell is going on with you?” “Nothing.” “You’re surly and rude.” I gave him a look. “More than usual,” he clarified. “You’re going out every night after I get home. God knows what you’re doing when you stay at your own apartment.” Actually, I hadn’t been sleeping too much at my apartment.

On the nights that I wasn’t over at Heath’s, I had been passing out on people’s couches and floors, mostly. “I know you don’t want to talk about what happened last week, but I recognized that man we saw after dinner. He was the same one we saw before, your boyfriend. Is that right? He was with someone else, and she’s pregnant.” It almost physically hurt to hear him say it like that. I hadn’t talked to Marcos since we had run into him on the sidewalk.

I hadn’t heard one word from him, not one explanation, or apology, or anything. He didn’t want to see me at all. And I didn’t want to see him, of course, but… “Heath, leave me alone. I’m doing my job here, right? I’m taking care of Jonah and Chloe. They’re doing great.” “They’re not doing great. I got a call asking me to come to St. Francis Seton tomorrow to meet with the dean, Chloe’s advisor, and her counselor.”

Evie is doing just fine, thank you very much! Everything is great, practically perfect, really—until, POOF! Evie’s life turns upside down and suddenly, she’s more than the fun party-girl she has been all her life. She has responsibilities. Commitments. Out of the blue, she’s the one people depend on, and the transition isn’t the smoothest.

And not that anything is easier when she has to deal on a daily basis with Heath Baldwin, who has a stick up…anyway, he’s a little starchy. If he could relax a little, maybe they would get along. If he could just see Evie as something other than a screw-up who needs to be watched, a user with nothing on her mind but what she can get out of him, things would be a lot better. Maybe everyone needs a little work, because if Evie could open her mind to new possibilities, and Heath could open his heart to new love, maybe they could make their unexpected situation a success.

Maybe it could become something more than either of them ever expected… OceanofPDF.com I Love You Better Jamie Bennett OceanofPDF.com Copyright © 2019 by Jamie Bennett All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the author, except as used in a book review.

Please contact the author at [email protected]. This is a work of fiction. While reference might be made to actual historical events or existing locations, the names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is purely coincidental. OceanofPDF.com Prologue It was like a fairyland. Strings of light dipped over the parquet floor, little shining stars above the dancers, and above them the real moon and stars glowed in the night sky.

It wasn’t cold and foggy in July like it was where I lived in San Francisco; here, it was warm and the air smelled good. There were flowers everywhere, purple and pink and white, like a garden, and everyone was so fancy. Sparkly and poofy dresses floated around the dance floor.

Every table was heavy with plates of white frosted cake, and jars of candy, and trays of cookies, and heavy glasses full of bubbly, sweet soda. Plus, there was a cotton candy machine that spun sugar fluff onto paper cones, as much as you wanted. My face was still sticky with it, and my tongue, when I had looked at my reflection in the back of a spoon, was a lovely shade of bright pink.

I filled my mouth every time I got a chance to. You never knew when an opportunity like this would come again! I heard my mom’s laugh, high and loud above the music. I didn’t like it.

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