Review: Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time by Chantal Fernando
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.
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UPDATE: Reread, May 2019
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Ryan is here alright. He’s currently got a woman up against the wall. She's fully naked, and he has his jeans around his ankles. The man has a great ass, and it’s in full view for me to see.

I see Reid staring daggers at me. Then he turns, looking around the bar until his eyes come across a stunning blonde. He waits until her eyes meet his, then tilts his head slightly towards the office. She smiles seductively, and walks towards the office, her hips shaking with each step. She opens the office door and walks in, Reid following her, and closing the door behind him. Ryan heads to the bar, taking over.

Ryan laughs at his brother. “'Bout time you got some action brother.”

“Where’s Ryan?” I ask, looking around. I swear he was here a second ago. When I see him heading to the office with a different chick, I gape. Again? Really?

“I don’t belong to you, Summer,” he says, putting me in my place.

“This car smells like… sex,” I say, looking at Ryan’s profile. Ryan laughs but doesn’t explain. Knowing him, he probably got some action before he came for dinner.

However, when I see its Reid’s blonde my temper gets the best of me. “Who is this bitch?” I ask Reid, saying it loud enough for her to hear. “Don’t talk to her like that, Summer,” he snaps, walking over to the girl and talking to her in hushed tones. What the hell?

I see Reid leaning against the wall, wiping blood from his nose. He throws the towel over his shoulder, and then the blonde leans up and kisses him on his mouth.

I sit down on the bed next to him. “You hurt me. You kissed her. Her fucking lips were on yours.”

enter the living area, and gape when I see not one, but two women sitting there. I send Ryan a look that says ‘you sly dog, you’.

“I thought you were a virgin,” he blurts out, holding my body in place so I can’t move away. “I never said I was a virgin,” I say slowly. “I know, but you’re so innocent, and young, and you didn’t say otherwise, so I just assumed…”

“Reid has fucking lipstick all over his neck!” I say to Ryan, turning my back on Reid so I can’t see him.

“Who was she?” I ask him through clenched teeth. “The doctor. She’s kind of my ex. The one I broke up with just after Reece died,”

“Mia was right, you're way too immature to handle this,” he says to himself. That comment hits me like a blow to the chest. One thing I’ve learnt about Reid, his words can be cutting. He knows exactly what to say to hurt you the most. And he hit his intended mark with that one.

“You gonna see Zara again?” I ask, talking about the woman he went away with. “Maybe,” he says, smiling mischievously. I roll my eyes. “Your dick is gonna fall off one day.”

“Worst fucking day of my life when I realise Mia was right about you,” he says. I go silent, his words having the effect he wanted them to.

“You may be a fucking bitch but I’m not a bastard. I’ll take you home,” he says, his words final.

Reid is sitting there, with a girl on his lap, straddling him. His hands are on her ass, and his lips are attached to hers.

Ryan gives me a look I’ve never seen before from him, and for the first time in my life I wonder if my brother hates me. He stares pointedly at the bed, and I turn my head to see what the fuck he’s on about. A woman.
In bed. With me. Fuck. It all comes back to me.

I glance down at the woman in my bed, wondering how the hell I'd fucked up so bad.

“If this is how you love someone, by leaving them and cheating on them, then I want no part of your love,” I yell, my voice cracking.

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