Best Friend's Brother #5 (Best Friend's Brother Romance Series - Book #5) by Alycia Taylor Page A
Authors: Alycia Taylor
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didn’t expect you to find out.”
“Well, you shouldn’t have done that,” I told him. “I
mean, I’m glad you told me…thank you, but I wish you would have stood up to him
and then maybe he’d stop this nonsense.” Ian smiled and I said, “What?”
“You’ve obviously never been a guy and been put in
the position of having a face to face with Dad. It makes the toughest guys
balls shrivel up. Think about it…if this was just some other guy, you could
tell him to mind his own business and then if he chose not to, you could kick
his ass, right?” I nodded and he said, “But this is your dad. No matter how
much you disagree with his methods when push comes to shove in the long run,
you’re gonna stick by him, right?” I nodded again and he said, “It’s kind of a lose/lose
position I’m put it. Besides, I don’t have that much experience with dads.”
“Because you didn’t date much in
high school?”
“Because I’m not really a guy who
“dates,” at all. I “hang out” with girls or I…”
“Have sex with them?” He had the decency to look
abashed as he said, “Yeah, that. But I don’t usually meet Dad. So, it’s
nerve-wracking and I didn’t want to do anything to make you hate me.”
I nodded. He was right, I hadn’t thought about it
like that. “He shouldn’t have put you in that position. I’m really sorry. He’s
so messed up over my mom. It’s been so many years and he’s still just sitting
there, letting her ruin his life. It drives me crazy. It drives me crazier
because he honestly believes that he’s helping me by keeping men away from me.
I can’t believe that he thinks I’d be better off alone forever than to have to
experience a heart ache or two in my lifetime. I ’d so much
rather end up with a broken heart. That’s no way to live.”
“You’re right. Have you told him that?”
“More than once,” I said. “But, I was in high school
at the time and technically he had the right to tell me who I could and
couldn’t date at that point. Now, I’m a grown woman though and he doesn’t have
that right. So, I think maybe it’s time for another talk.”
“I guess I shouldn’t expect to be invited to any
family dinners any time soon, huh?”
I laughed again. “We might need to give it a cooling
off period,” I told him. He grabbed me around the waist then and pulled me down
next to him on the couch. “Oh my God!” I said, looking
at the television.
“What?”
“Back to the Future, really?”
“You don’t like it?”
I laughed. “You really are a nerd aren’t you?”
“Fine,” he said, “I’ll change it. Or we could play a
video game…or have sex…”
I giggled. “No more sex! You perv ,
you’re killing me!”
“Right, because I’m the one who got in the shower
with you all naked and sexy.”
“Did I do that?” He tickled me and said, “Yeah, so
just give up the innocent routine.”
“Okay, you’re not the perv ,
I am. But I do think I need a “cooling off” period. Which movie would we be
watching?”
“I have a lot of porn…I hear you perverts like that
sort of thing.”
I threw a pillow at him. “Try again.”
“Star Wars?”
I laughed. “Anything made in this century…that’s not
porn?”
“Oh! I just bought the new Hunger games.”
“That’ll work. You have popcorn?”
“Check the cabinet under the microwave,” he said. He
got the movie ready while I went in and did that. I found a few packages of
microwave popcorn and stuck one in. While it popped, I walked over to the
refrigerator and looked at the pictures stuck there underneath beer and UFC
magnets. There was one of a much younger and thinner Ian in a suit. His arm was
around a pretty blonde haired girl in a dress suited for a prom. In the bottom
right corner it said, “Winter Wonderland 2007,” he would have been a sophomore.
That was the year he got into trouble with the steroids. It made me wonder what
was so special about the girl that he
“Well, you shouldn’t have done that,” I told him. “I
mean, I’m glad you told me…thank you, but I wish you would have stood up to him
and then maybe he’d stop this nonsense.” Ian smiled and I said, “What?”
“You’ve obviously never been a guy and been put in
the position of having a face to face with Dad. It makes the toughest guys
balls shrivel up. Think about it…if this was just some other guy, you could
tell him to mind his own business and then if he chose not to, you could kick
his ass, right?” I nodded and he said, “But this is your dad. No matter how
much you disagree with his methods when push comes to shove in the long run,
you’re gonna stick by him, right?” I nodded again and he said, “It’s kind of a lose/lose
position I’m put it. Besides, I don’t have that much experience with dads.”
“Because you didn’t date much in
high school?”
“Because I’m not really a guy who
“dates,” at all. I “hang out” with girls or I…”
“Have sex with them?” He had the decency to look
abashed as he said, “Yeah, that. But I don’t usually meet Dad. So, it’s
nerve-wracking and I didn’t want to do anything to make you hate me.”
I nodded. He was right, I hadn’t thought about it
like that. “He shouldn’t have put you in that position. I’m really sorry. He’s
so messed up over my mom. It’s been so many years and he’s still just sitting
there, letting her ruin his life. It drives me crazy. It drives me crazier
because he honestly believes that he’s helping me by keeping men away from me.
I can’t believe that he thinks I’d be better off alone forever than to have to
experience a heart ache or two in my lifetime. I ’d so much
rather end up with a broken heart. That’s no way to live.”
“You’re right. Have you told him that?”
“More than once,” I said. “But, I was in high school
at the time and technically he had the right to tell me who I could and
couldn’t date at that point. Now, I’m a grown woman though and he doesn’t have
that right. So, I think maybe it’s time for another talk.”
“I guess I shouldn’t expect to be invited to any
family dinners any time soon, huh?”
I laughed again. “We might need to give it a cooling
off period,” I told him. He grabbed me around the waist then and pulled me down
next to him on the couch. “Oh my God!” I said, looking
at the television.
“What?”
“Back to the Future, really?”
“You don’t like it?”
I laughed. “You really are a nerd aren’t you?”
“Fine,” he said, “I’ll change it. Or we could play a
video game…or have sex…”
I giggled. “No more sex! You perv ,
you’re killing me!”
“Right, because I’m the one who got in the shower
with you all naked and sexy.”
“Did I do that?” He tickled me and said, “Yeah, so
just give up the innocent routine.”
“Okay, you’re not the perv ,
I am. But I do think I need a “cooling off” period. Which movie would we be
watching?”
“I have a lot of porn…I hear you perverts like that
sort of thing.”
I threw a pillow at him. “Try again.”
“Star Wars?”
I laughed. “Anything made in this century…that’s not
porn?”
“Oh! I just bought the new Hunger games.”
“That’ll work. You have popcorn?”
“Check the cabinet under the microwave,” he said. He
got the movie ready while I went in and did that. I found a few packages of
microwave popcorn and stuck one in. While it popped, I walked over to the
refrigerator and looked at the pictures stuck there underneath beer and UFC
magnets. There was one of a much younger and thinner Ian in a suit. His arm was
around a pretty blonde haired girl in a dress suited for a prom. In the bottom
right corner it said, “Winter Wonderland 2007,” he would have been a sophomore.
That was the year he got into trouble with the steroids. It made me wonder what
was so special about the girl that he
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