He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 842

The kiss was brief, barely a brush of the lips, yet to Julian, it felt like a bolt of electricity. The side of his face she had kissed instantly tingled.

He stood frozen in place, utterly paralyzed. It took him a long moment to snap out of it.

Did Scarlett just voluntarily kiss his cheek?! Had he imagined it?!

In disbelief, he reached up to touch his face. Despite being a grown man, his chest was currently heaving with the kind of giddy, heart-pounding thrill he had never experienced before.

Meanwhile, Scarlett had darted back into her bedroom and slammed the door shut. She instinctively pressed a hand to her chest, leaning against the wood. Her heart was drumming a frantic, chaotic beat.

She felt so foolish. She was a mother, a woman who had been through the wringer of marriage, yet right now, she felt the dizzying panic of a teenage girl experiencing her first crush.

She had never felt this way with Yardley. Though she had loved her ex-husband, their relationship had started physically, entirely skipping the traditional dating phase. It was like pulling a cake out of the oven before it had finished baking—they had missed so many crucial steps, losing out on all the sweetness along the way.

But with Julian, neither of them was rushing to the finish line. In this gradual, day-by-day progression, she was slowly getting to experience the beautiful, unfolding blossoming of true romance.

Scarlett knew better than anyone how rare it was in this fast-paced world to find a man willing to take things one step at a time, rather than demanding immediate results.

She had always dreamed of the kind of love you read about in books—the tentative explorations, the slow drawing closer, and the natural, effortless transition into being together. Not jumping into bed the moment you meet and rushing into marriage before you even truly understand each other.

What she had always longed for was exactly what she had with Julian now. In this lifelong journey, there was no need to rush. They could take their time.

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