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HOW FOREVER FEELS
Friends First #4
Laura Drewry
Releasing Oct 13th, 2015
Loveswept
Maya McKay’s heart is as big as Jack Rhodes’s shoulders are broad. Their chemistry is out of control, but it could never work between them because Jack is more than just best friends with her cheating ex-husband—they’re like brothers. Maya, the sensitive, practical florist, has given up on love and is ready to settle for like. But now that Jack’s around again, he’s stirring up old feelings—and turning Maya’s fantasies into irresistible reality.
Jack blew his chance with Maya years ago when he stepped aside for his best friend, Will, and he’s still kicking himself about it. Maya was promised forever once before, and she got burned. But when Jack realizes that second chances aren’t going to fall out of the sky, he seizes the moment—and the woman he’s always loved—to show her how forever truly feels.
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“From
the guy in the gray T-shirt at the end of the bar.” Grinning, Shelley set a
white frothy drink, complete with a pineapple wedge and tiny blue parasol, in
front of Maya then moved on to her next table.
With
scarcely a glance at the piña colada, Maya and all three of her friends
immediately craned their necks toward the bar.
“A
piña colada?” Regan snorted. “Come on, buddy.”
“I
know him,” Ellie muttered. “Why do I know him?”
Jayne
just gaped. “He’s huge.”
Being
the shortest of the four of them, Maya had to push away from the table and
stand up to be able to see around and over everyone in the packed pub.
“Oh
my God! Jack?”
“Who’s
Jack?” Jayne’s question hung unanswered, because Maya was already dodging and
weaving her way around waitresses and other tables.
Ducking
under Shelley’s lifted tray, Maya came around the corner of the last table just
as the guy sitting there stood up, shoving the chair hard into her hip. She
tried to right herself but ended up crashing into the corner of the wall and
spiraling off like she was in some kind of pinball game.
Grasping
and flailing, and with the floor racing up to meet her, Maya was saved by two
big hands that caught her under the arms and righted her.
Jack.
Without
a word, Maya thrust her hands straight up over her head, snort-laughed, and
gave a dramatic bow as everyone cheered.
“And
that’ll be a ten from the Canadian judge,” Jack announced, using his beer
bottle as a mic, “for sticking the landing with such grace and style.”
“Thank
you, thank you very much.” Another quick bow, then she turned and walked right
into Jack’s open arms.
“Hey,
Snip.” He laughed quietly, and his huge frame swallowed her up until her feet
dangled just below his kneecaps.
“What
are you doing here?”
His
chest rumbled with a low chuckle. “Someone had to be here to catch your sorry
ass, didn’t they?”
Maya
pulled back far enough so she could see his face. “Oh, God. Will’s not here
with you, is he?”
“Nope—I’m
solo.” He set her down slowly, then perched on his stool, bringing them closer
to the same level, his hazel eyes wide, his brow lifting slowly. “You look . .
. great.”
“Thanks.”
She laughed lightly as she leaned her hip against the stool next to him. “But I
think we can both agree anything would be an improvement over the last time you
saw me.”
“I
don’t know about that.” He shrugged. “You looked pretty good then, too.”
Ha!
She’d looked like a crazy person and they both knew it, but considering she’d
been going through her divorce from Will at the time, she hadn’t really cared.
“So
what’s going on? Are you in town to visit Will?”
“Partly.”
His grin vanished as he twisted his jaw to the side and blinked down at his
beer for a second. “I’m sorry, Snip. I didn’t know about him and Stella, but I
swear I could’ve killed him when I finally found out.”
Maya
snorted. “Yeah, you and me both.”
“And
then . . . jeezus . . . I didn’t know what the hell I was supposed to do. I
mean, shit, it’s Will we’re talking about.”
“I
know, which is exactly why we’re going to stop talking about him right now and
agree to disagree on the fact that he’s a complete asshole and deserves to rot
in hell.”
It
was a feeble joke at best, so she couldn’t really blame him for not smiling
back at her.
“Oh
come on, Jack, it’s done, it’s over. Dickhead . . . sorry . . . Will . . .
has moved on and so have I.”
“Have
you? Moved on I mean.” Finally a smile, hesitant as it was. “Should I be watching
out for some big hulking dude who’s going to kick my ass for buying you that
drink?”
“Yeah,
right.” Jack was six three, with the shoulders of a linebacker and arms the
size of tree trunks, so there weren’t many guys who had what it took to kick his
ass. “No hulking anyone, just my girls over there and they’re pretty friendly.”
His
gaze flicked past her briefly. “I don’t know, that one in the green sweater
looks like she could take me.”
Without
turning, Maya laughed. “Ellie. And you might be right on that one. Are they
still staring?”
“Oh
yeah.” Jack’s eyes crinkled at the corners. “I don’t think any one of them’s
moved since you shoved them all out of the way and leapt over the table.”
“I
didn’t leap!” Heat raced up Maya’s neck and across her cheeks until she finally
had to laugh and look down at the floor for a second. “Okay, I might have leapt
a little, but I haven’t seen you in . . . what . . . two years, so a little
leaping wasn’t completely uncalled for.”
“Yeah,
it’s been a while, hasn’t it?” His gaze never wavered as he took a slow sip of
his beer. “How are you doing? For real, no B.S.”
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USA Today Bestselling author, Laura Drewry had
been scribbling things for years before she decided to seriously sit down and
write. After spending eight years in the Canadian north, Laura now lives back
home in southwestern British Columbia with her husband, three sons, a turtle
named Sheldon, and an extremely energetic German shepherd. She loves old
tattered books, good movies, country music, and the New York Yankees.
been scribbling things for years before she decided to seriously sit down and
write. After spending eight years in the Canadian north, Laura now lives back
home in southwestern British Columbia with her husband, three sons, a turtle
named Sheldon, and an extremely energetic German shepherd. She loves old
tattered books, good movies, country music, and the New York Yankees.
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