A VERY GRUMPY BEST FRIEND
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We were always meant to be more than just friends.
Lilliana:
I’ve been best friends with Foster since I was a kid.
I’ve been in love with him for just as long.
We’ve always been close.
Just not as close as I’d have liked us to be.
Foster:
Lilliana has always been mine.
I thought that she knew that, but after an incident in high school, I wasn’t as sure.
That’s why I came up with the marriage pact.
When she had agreed to it, I had felt relieved.
Now that the pact is almost up, I’m worried that she might have forgotten about it.
Luckily for her, I’m ready to remind her and to show her just how perfect we’ll be together.
ONE
Foster
“I’msurprised that you even came in this morning,” my twin brother, Ford, says as he takes a seat across from me.
“Why wouldn’t I?”I ask him, even though we both already know the answer.
“Um, maybe because Lilliana is coming back today.”
I give him a blank look, and he rolls his eyes.
“Don’t give me that.We both know that you’ve had this day circled in your calendar for freaking months.”
“Prove it,” I grumble, and he rolls his eyes.
“Are you finally going to tell her that you’ve been obsessed with her for your entire life?”
“Probably not right away.I was thinking that I’d welcome her back to town and stuff first, maybe help her get settled.”
“Smartass,” he says with a laugh, and I grin.
“It must be hard for you that I got all of the brains and the looks,” I say with a sigh, and he flips me off.
“We’re identical twins, moron.”
“Am I interrupting a brotherly squabble?”Ransom asks as he joins us at our table.
“Almost always,” we say at the same time, and Ransom grins.
