Geek Charming: Cherish Cove, #9

By Brynn Paulin

Bronte:

 

I have a secret. I have a huge crush on my brother's best friend. I mean, frankly, I have zero chance with him. I have curves, not computer keys. So I'll just be over here, pretending not to look and dying to touch. Problem is, we just got assigned to the same project. Shoot me now.

 

Harrison:

 

Shoot me now. I'm about to break the bro code. How am I going to get through this project without making Bronte mine? You're right. I'm not.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Supernova Indie Publishing Services LLC
• Release date: Jul 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781623443764

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Geek Charming

Cherish Cove

By Brynn Paulin

Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

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Geek Charming

by

Brynn Paulin

Bronte:

I have a secret.

I have a huge crush on my brother’s best friend. I mean, frankly, I have zero chance with him. I have curves, not computer keys. So I’ll just be over here, pretending not to look and dying to touch.

Problem is, we just got assigned to the same project. Shoot me now.

Harrison:

Shoot me now. I’m about to break the bro code. How am I going to get through this project without making Bronte mine?

You’re right. I’m not.

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© 2021, Brynn Paulin

Geek Charming

Cover Art by Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

Electronic Format ISBN: 978-1-62344-376-4

Published by: Supernova Indie Publishing Services, LLC

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and occurrences are a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, places or occurrences, is purely coincidental.

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Chapter One

~ Bronte ~

Liam’s going to New York with Fee’s family for spring break, right?

I glanced over at my brother, Ben. We were proverbial Irish twins…a term I wasn’t really fond of but people used to describe us often. We were in the same grade and barely nine months apart. I’d been conceived soon after he was born and then came into the world a little early. Lately, he liked to claim he was a year older than me since he’d turned nineteen the beginning of March and I wouldn’t be there until near the end of November. Funny how he still had to check in with me for everything.

Yes, they’re leaving Thursday night like us.

I’m going to ask Dad if Harrison can come on our trip since Liam and their mom will be gone.

Harrison was Liam’s twin brother—his real twin brother. Their mother traveled for her job and was gone more than she was home. That left the boys on their own a lot.

Still the thought of my dad agreeing sent dread through me. Harrison was a nice enough guy, I supposed. To other people. He was a pain in my rear.

And I had a major crush on him. Something I couldn’t admit for various reasons. One, he was the brother of my best friend’s boyfriend. Two, he was my own brother’s best friend. Both things thrust me into the uncomfortable position of being around Harrison more often than not. In defense, I did all I could to bicker with Harrison just to get him to ignore me.

Counterintuitive? Maybe. But it would be worse if he found out I liked him, and in turn, I made the four people I was around most often—Fee, Liam, Ben and Harrison himself—incredibly uncomfortable. It would mess up all the group’s dynamics, what that they were.

And Ben, being the computer genius geek that he was, couldn’t afford for me to screw up his first good friendship. Neither Ben nor Harrison would strike you as proverbial tech nerds…until they opened their mouths. Then, I swear…sometimes, it’s like they’re spewing actual code. They’re both tall, leanly muscular and fit. They both have an affinity for jeans, gray thermals or tees and flannel shirts, but didn’t a lot of guys? Occasionally, Harrison would break out a slightly rumpled button-down, and I’d have to excuse myself to anywhere outside his vicinity so I didn’t drool on him.

Let’s not even mention his black-rimmed Clark Kent glasses.

Yeah, having Harrison along for spring break would be torture!

It’s kind of late notice, don’t you think?

Nah. He’s not doing anything anyway. And we’ll have plenty of room.

Right…Just me, my brother and his best friend all together while my dad got engrossed in his work. That was the point of the trip. We’d spend almost ten days traveling from state park to state park, doing various activities offered at each one, while my dad, a travel writer, gathered enough material to keep him busy for months. We always took a few more trips in the summer. Last summer, he’d been in Florida almost the whole time, and Ben and I had traveled back and forth from here to there several times to visit him. Florida in the summer wasn’t exactly my dream vacation, but I’d gotten to explore the Keys, so that was cool.

That was in pre-Harrison days. He and his brother were both new kids at Cherish Cove High for senior year. Poor guys. Though it seemed to be working out well for Liam. Fee was a catch, if I did say so as her life-long bestie.

I don’t know, Ben…

Twin, he chided, leveling a look at me after he parked the car in the school’s lot. Okay, so it wasn’t just other people who joked about our closeness. For me, will you be nice about this? Not argue against it to Dad?

I sighed. Fine.

And you’ll be nice?

Nice enough.

Of course, I would. He knew I