Chronicles of a Serial Dater - Book 2: A New Adult Romantic Comedy
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“Exactly!”
“Maybe you aren’t looking in the right places,” he added with a smirk.
“Don’t tell me there’s another app I have to learn,” I groaned dramatically.
“Nope. But there is a name for it. Friends with benefits…” He held my gaze for a few moments. My heart thumped against my chest and my core inexplicably tightened.
“Zach, I…”
He held his hands up defensively and stood. “I’m just saying. If it’s no-strings-attached sex you’re after, it’s not like you have to go very far to find it.” I’m pretty sure my mouth was hanging open as he leaned down, balancing his weight on the railing beside me. “I haven’t checked my reviews on Yelp lately, but I get plenty of repeat customers. I must be doing something right. Think about it.”
Without another word, he turned and walked away. I watched his back in shock as he disappeared down the sidewalk. As if my life hadn’t become complicated enough, Zach had to go throwing that idea in my head. Even worse, I didn’t automatically balk like I thought I would at such a proposal.
“Ah, the life of a celibate nun sounds nice right about now,” I typed without looking at the screen. My eyes drifted to the side, the scenes from the last few weeks playing out in my mind.
“I hope these guys have all been a fluke of statistics. I accept the varied scope of human personality, but why am I being bombarded with one specific end of the freaky-ass spectrum? And just as I’m about to call for a moratorium on men altogether, maybe let my roommate talk me into a little Lesbi-love action, I’m slapped across the face with two amazing men.
“And I can’t touch either of them.”
I tapped my fingernail on the edge of the keyboard as I tried to come up with a pair of nicknames for Clint and Zach, smiling when the first one came to me.
“One is a delicious English muffin and I’ve gone gluten-free, while the other…”
I couldn’t think of a good name for Zach. Every attempt pinned him into a name I thought was too narrow. He was more than a friend, more than a hot guy, more than a lot of things… he was…
“The other is complicated.”
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