Excerpt Reveal: Never Apart

 

✨EXCERPT: NEVER APART by @danigrimesauthor releasing 12/12!

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“I don’t think alcohol on this trip is going to help me since that’s how I got myself into the kissing-our-best-friend situation,” I said. “I’ll be fine. I’m probably not even in love with him anymore.”
Isaac shot me a look of disbelief but I chose to ignore him and my obvious lie. I scanned the crowd for Koa, thinking that maybe when he appeared and I realized that my reaction to him had dulled from the last time I’d have a sign that things would get better.
A few minutes passed before Blake came into view, wheeling a carry-on bag behind her.
“Hey, Blakey.” Isaac stood up to hug her and took her bag, tucking it against ours.
“Hey guys,” she said as I stood and hugged her. “Koa’s here’s too. He stopped at the bathroom.”
My traitorous heart skipped a beat, and I forced myself to ignore it.
“How are you feeling?” 
“Good, actually,” she said with a smile. She glanced at Isaac.
He wiggled his eyebrows at her, eyes roaming over her long legs and cropped denim shorts. “You look hot carrying my baby.”
She groaned and rolled her eyes. I tuned them out as they started bickering. It was a sound I’d gotten used to a decade ago so it was easy to ignore as I waited for Koa.
I fingered the tequila in my pocket as my heart raced. This was terrible. I wanted to be Koa’s friend without feeling like this. I’d even slept my way through college as enthusiastically as Isaac had, hoping to scrub myself of this feeling, but I was pretty sure anything would be useless. I am not a gay cliché, damn it.

My eyes caught on the movement of a gorgeous Black man walking toward us whose face I knew as well as my own. The way my heart thudded loudly in my chest made it clear that I absolutely was a gay cliché and that I was zero percent less in love with Koa than the last time I’d seen him.

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