✨EXCERPT: THE DEAD HUSBAND’S SOCIETY by @adeline_aimes_author releasing September 12th!
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Noah chuckles, leaning back, his elbows braced on the creaking wicker armrests. “I’d just finished unpacking and was laying down to rest and there you come, sauntering into my room like you own the place, staring at my Pearl Jam poster like it had personally offended you.”
I close my eyes, letting the memory rush back in: the stale hallway air, the too-big map of campus stuffed in my pocket, the unlocked door that I thought was mine, until a sleepy boy with dark tangled hair and a crooked grin sat up in bed and asked, “You planning to rob me, or…?”
“I had made a terrible life choice, choosing West instead of East,” I tease, nudging his ankle with my toe from across the porch. “But you didn’t even yell at me. Just sat up wearing nothing but those basketball shorts and asked if I was there to steal your ramen.”
“Hey. Moving was hard work and I was sweaty and gross and not at all ready to face the communal showers.” He tips his head back, eyes closing, grinning like he’s twenty again. “And what was I gonna do, kick out the prettiest girl I’d ever seen? Besides, my roommate wasn’t showing up till the next day, so technically, I had the whole room to myself.”
“Right.” My voice catches again. “Owen. He is always late. Was always late.”
Noah’s smile flickers, but he doesn’t look away.
And for the first time, I wonder, really wonder, what my life might have been if I’d lingered with the barefoot boy and his bad posters and kind blue eyes a little longer, before the golden one swept in with promises big enough to drown in.
I drop my gaze, my throat tightening. “Bet you wish you hadn’t found me that night.” My voice comes out too quickly, too lightly.
Noah’s smile is gentle, edged with something too deep for either of us to touch. “Nah. I liked finding you.”
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