Feeling Festive on Oak Tree Lane (OAK TREE LANE #3) by R. A. Hutchins EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: R. A. Hutchins
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Things were not going well.
The clearing up from that night’s sixtieth birthday party had been done
in decidedly uncomfortable silence. That is to say, no words were actually
spoken between the pair but that didn’t stop there being a charged
atmosphere between the two of them which had both feeling acutely aware
of the other. Not that he wasn’t always aware of her, though, following the
scent of her jasmine perfume around the place like a lost puppy, never more
lonely than when she was out visiting one of her friends.
Matt shook his head, feeling his bun slip down the back of his neck. He
had wondered for a while if he should just get his hair chopped, back into a
more conventional style. Maybe that would shock Robyn into noticing him
as a man and not just as her flatmate, employer and best friend – so many
labels but none of them the one he wanted. He scraped a hand through the
rough stubble at his chin, chancing a glance behind him as she wiped down
the last of the tables.
Robyn had looked stunning that afternoon, despite the vintage 1980s
lurid pink dress she had worn to match the other three women in the vocal
group. She had always been petite, and the faux satin number seemed to
swamp her small frame, but regardless of what the woman wore, Matt
found his eyes always drawn to her like a moth to a flame.
He quickly
turned back to wrapping the wires at the back of the makeshift stage, lest
she caught him gawking. What she lacked in stature, his Robyn made up for
with her feisty demeanour and he certainly didn’t want to get her back up
like he had earlier.
Matt hadn’t meant to ask the self-pitying, spontaneous question about
her noticing his existence but something in him had snapped. Watching
Janet and Brin so in love for all to see had soured Matt’s mood more than
he’d like to admit even to himself. Would Robyn ever notice him the way
he wanted her to? Would their friendship survive it if she rejected him in
that way? – That was the only doubt stopping him from sharing his true
feelings, though denying himself the chance to be honest with her was
becoming harder by the hour it seemed. Living so closely but trying to keep
his intentions platonic was proving more difficult by the day.
Hence why Matt had been keeping his distance for the past few weeks,
taking to his bedroom early in the evening rather than cosying up on the
sofa with Robyn to watch television, as was their usual routine. She had
noticed, of course, she’d have to be a robot not to be aware of the sudden
chill in the domestic atmosphere, but had yet to call him out on it.
As bright
a woman as Robyn was, Matt couldn’t believe she could be so obtuse as to
not realise the reason for his bad mood. But then, she wasn’t a mind reader
any more than he was, and they had got along perfectly as best friends for
years.
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