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Inevitable Series by Riley Hart – Read Books Online Free Ebooks good best novels to read http://www.books2020.com Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:33:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.books2020.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/favicon.png Inevitable Series by Riley Hart – Read Books Online Free Ebooks good best novels to read http://www.books2020.com 32 32 A Lifetime Kissing You (Inevitable #3) Read Online Riley Hart http://www.books2020.com/a-lifetime-kissing-you-inevitable-3-read-online-riley-hart Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:33:37 +0000 http://www.booksnovels.com/a-lifetime-kissing-you-inevitable-3-read-online-riley-hart Genre: Contemporary, M-M Romance Authors: Riley Hart Series: Inevitable Series by Riley Hart
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Total pages in book: 82
Estimated words: 77918 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 390(@200wpm)___ 312(@250wpm)___ 260(@300wpm)

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Charles
I have a great family, a successful career, and never struggle to find the company of a man when I want it, and I do—often. The loss of my brother years ago is the one dark spot in an otherwise perfect life. But at forty-three, my world suddenly feels emptier than it should. Something’s missing. I don’t know what it is…or how I think I’ll find it spending a summer in a small town in North Carolina.

Brian
I’ve spent my life in love with the woman who married my brother. When they passed, I raised their son, living with the guilt of my feelings. Now, at forty-eight, I’m used to being alone. Until I meet Charles.

I’ve never known someone like him—a wealthy, confident city man I shouldn’t have anything in common with. He’s determined to be friends. We play music together, spend our nights talking in ways I’ve never done. I look forward to seeing him—and to those innocent touches that make me crave more.

I don’t experience attraction the way most folks do, but as our friendship grows, I can’t deny I want him. It’s my first time with a man. Every brush of his skin against mine makes me feel things I hadn’t thought possible. I didn’t know intimacy could be like this. I could spend a lifetime kissing him, but for us to have any chance at a future, we’ll both have to face truths we’ve tried to ignore for too long.

A Lifetime Kissing You is a small-town, opposites-attract romance with first times, lots of touch, and a love of music.

This book deals with past loss of a loved one, anxiety and panic attacks. Please read the content warning at the beginning of the book for more information.

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PROLOGUE

Brian

Most people don’t plan to be forty-eight years old and alone. It wasn’t something I set out to do, but early in my life I realized that was likely how it was going to be.

I’d never been the kind of person who had a bunch of friends. Crowds made me uncomfortable. I wasn’t funny or interesting. I’d never wanted anything more than a simple life, and would rather fade into the background than be the person people paid attention to. As long as I had my guitar, I was mostly just fine.

The only other thing I’d ever wanted had been Nadine, my best and basically only real friend until the day she died. She was the only person I’d ever been in love with, and since I couldn’t share my life with her, it didn’t make much sense to share it with anyone else.

Because even before she died, she hadn’t been mine. There was a time I’d thought maybe she could love me too, but she’d fallen for my brother, married him, had his children, and with that, my fate was sealed.

And now, fourteen years after a car accident took Nadine, my brother, Phil, and their little girl, Libby, from us, here I was, sitting across from my nephew, Sutton, the two of us with our guitars in hand and talking. The very same nephew I’d raised after they passed. Sutton was a good man—more because it’s who he is than anything I did bringing him up. I enjoyed spending time with him, something we’d been doing more of lately. It was the only time the loneliness eased some.

“You know you can bring Jasper when you come over, right?” I asked, sitting on the couch across from him. Jasper was Sutton’s Nadine. They’d been best friends their whole lives, only the difference was, Sutton’s love was returned—at least, I assumed it was. I’d tried to hint it was okay if he and Jasper were together, that I recognized the heart in his voice when he spoke about him, because it was how I’d always spoken about his mama, a fact Sutton wasn’t let in on.

“Yeah, I know,” he replied.

I watched him for a moment, could see him mulling over his truth, and I wondered if he would feel comfortable sharing it with me. I wouldn’t push. That wasn’t how I worked, but I hoped he knew I was there for him. Nothing would ever change that.

It wasn’t long before Sutton added, “I’m in love with him. He’s my…boyfriend? Partner? Hell, I don’t even know what word to use. None of them seem strong enough for what he is to me. You’ve hinted before that you know, but I wanted to tell you, wanted to make sure you know I trust ya with that.”

I was honored as hell that he did, but those weren’t the words I let slip out. Half the time, I felt like something was broken inside me, like I felt too damn much, but it was always muted and not something I was good at setting free and sharing with anyone. “Yep, I figured.” I took a drag of my cigarette just to have something to do with my hand. “I ain’t like those folks who care ’bout shit like that. I’m just surprised it took the two of you as long as it did.”

A relieved breath whooshed from his lungs before Sutton chuckled. “Me too. Guess we’re stubborn like that. His parents don’t like it. His dad hasn’t spoken to him in months. His mom does, but she also doesn’t hide the fact that she’d rather he was with a woman, any woman and not me.”

I wished like hell that surprised me, wished even more that it wasn’t true. I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to take someone’s happiness away, no matter where they found it.

“Jasper’s been determined to fix things. He tries to talk to his dad, but…nothing. We’re keepin’ us a secret partly because it’s what his dad wants. I think…” Sutton’s fingers danced along the fret on his guitar, plucking a few chords. “I’m afraid that ain’t the real truth, though, and Jasper just can’t handle the thought of everyone knowin’. Then I feel guilty because he’s been doin’ a whole lot better. Ms. Dana from Iris’s found out, and Molly’s wonderin’ something. Kendra knows.”

Iris’s was a popular diner in Ryland, where we lived. Molly was Jasper’s cousin’s friend, and Kendra was a friend Sutton used to date. Part of me couldn’t get over so many people knowing, yet it wasn’t being talked about all over town.

“We’ve also been lookin’ for a place of our own to move out of the house on his folks’ property. That just makes me feel bad too. That’s his home.” Sutton had helped Jasper build that house, the two of them living there and working together, running their landscaping business.

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Advertisement A Million Little Moments (Inevitable #2) Read Online Riley Hart http://www.books2020.com/a-million-little-moments-inevitable-2-read-online-riley-hart Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:32:27 +0000 http://www.teennovels.net/a-million-little-moments-inevitable-2-read-online-riley-hart Genre: Angst, M-M Romance, Romance Authors: Riley Hart Series: Inevitable Series by Riley Hart
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Total pages in book: 88
Estimated words: 83586 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 418(@200wpm)___ 334(@250wpm)___ 279(@300wpm)

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Sutton
Jasper’s been my best friend my whole life. From losing my family when I was young, to living together and running our business, it’s always been me and Jasp. I feel more for him than I should, but confessing the truth would be the first step to losing him.

Our lives are so entwined, it’s hard to tell where one of us ends and the other begins. It’s killing me more each day to be this close to him and not be able to call him mine, so when it hurts too much, the only choice is to walk away.

Jasper
My life is perfect. I have my family, my business, and my best friend. But when Sutton starts pulling away, everything changes, and it’s ripping me apart, forcing me to admit hard truths—that I feel different when he touches me; that I need him always by my side.

The thing is, I’m in love with Sutton, and apparently he feels the same. Loving Sutton is as easy as breathing, yet knowing my parents won’t accept us, not with all the backward things they raised me to believe, makes each day a struggle.

But one thing I know for sure—the world doesn’t make sense if Sutton and I aren’t together. We’ve had a million little moments to prove it. And to be the man he deserves, I have to fight for him, for us, and maybe that means fighting for myself too.

A Million Little Moments is a double bi-awakening, friends-to-lovers romance filled with first times, self-discovery, and two men destined to be together.

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PROLOGUE

Sutton

Twelve years old

My legs hurt, but I couldn’t stop running. Tears mixed with sweat, both running freely down my face as I pushed myself harder, faster, needing to get away, to escape as far as I could because maybe then I could lie to myself and pretend my reality didn’t exist.

When I finally slowed down, my legs feeling like they would collapse beneath me, I wasn’t surprised to realize I was on the Finches’ property. Jasper Finch had been my best friend since we were five. He was the coolest person I’d ever met, but the best thing about Jasper was that he didn’t know it. Sometimes he acted like he did. He tried to make himself seem big, but he told me once he didn’t feel big at all. Those were the kinds of things he shared with me and no one else.

But he was big—sometimes it felt like the whole world revolved around him, in the best way. Being with Jasper made everything better.

I didn’t want to feel better right then, though. How could I ever feel better again? How could I be normal once I watched my mama, daddy, and sister get lowered into the ground and knowing I was gonna be forever without them?

I made my way toward the back of the Finches’ property, through the woods that separated their house from the railroad tracks. Sometimes Jasp and I would sit back there and watch the trains speed by, and we’d tell each other stories about jumping into one of the cars and letting it take us all over the country, pretend we could ride it into eternity, anywhere we wanted to go, exploring life outside Ryland, North Carolina.

I wished a train would go by right now. Wished I could jump on and just…go.

I sat down against a tree, ripping off the stupid blazer I was wearing. Why did you dress up when someone died? I didn’t get it. Didn’t they deserve the real you? The one they laughed with and hugged and ate dinner with every night? This dumb suit wasn’t me, and I hated it.

“Hey,” Jasp said, and I dropped my head back against the tree. Of course he would come. Of course he would find me.

“How’d you know I was out here?”

“Your uncle Brian called Mama to say he couldn’t find you. She asked if I knew where you were. I didn’t, but then I thought…if I were Sutton, I’d wanna run away, so I figured you might be here.”

It didn’t surprise me he’d worked it out. How could he not? No one knew me better than Jasper. “I wanna disappear.”

Jasper sighed, walked over, and sat beside me. “Don’t.”

“Why not?”

“Cuz I’m selfish and I don’t know what I’d do without my best friend.”

Like I knew what I’d do without him either. “I don’t want ’em to be dead.”

“I know, but we can’t do nothin’ to change that.”

“I should have been with them.” I swiped at my face with the sleeve of my shirt, leaving dirt, tears, and sweat behind.

“Don’t say that. I get scared just thinkin’ about the fact that you coulda been.”

“You do?” I turned to look at him for the first time. At the freckles across his nose and cheeks, and his thick, blond hair that was usually messy but now looked like his mama had styled it on account of the funeral today.

“’Course I do. You’re basically my brother. The only person where all I’d have to think about is how I’d feel or what I’d do and know exactly how to find ’em. Who else would I talk to? Or laugh with?”

“So it’s all about you?” I teased.

“Are you surprised?” Jasper joked back. It was one of those moments where he tried to pretend he didn’t care as much as he did, that he was more confident than he was. Sometimes his daddy made him feel like he had to be all these certain things, told him stuff about boys not crying and things like that. Jasper always tried real hard to be just like him.

I pulled my legs closer to my chest, watched for a train that wasn’t coming. “I don’t wanna go to the funeral.”

“Then we won’t.”

“Your mama will kick your ass.”

Jasper shrugged. “Don’t care much right now. You don’t wanna go, we won’t go. We’ll sit right here and imagine all the places we could go.”

And the thing was, I knew Jasper would stay if I asked him to. I also knew his mama would be pissed, and though he would deal with her anger for me, Jasper hated disappointing her; both his parents. They were a close family, the way we had been before I stayed home with a stomachache and they got into a car accident and died.

“I’m all alone now,” I said softly, leaves rustling and settling with the wind around us.

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