My Beautiful Neighbor (The Greene Family Book 1) by Piper Rayne (android based ebook reader txt) 📗

I kiss her forehead, her nose, and her mouth. “I love you. Let’s go celebrate. Grandma Ethel is a little upset I’m not using her ring.”

I take Presley’s hand and we walk into Truth or Dare, thanking everyone for their well wishes. My family is in the corner and soon we’re all nestled together, everyone hugging Presley and looking at the ring.

“Finally,” Adam says, cuddled up beside his new girlfriend. He’s finally moved on and Motown has become go-to music for him, but not just to forget Lucy.

“Better late than never, right?” I say.

He fist bumps me.

The room quiets and I groan, thinking Grandma Ethel has a mic and is about to give a speech that will no doubt be either embarrassing or off-color. I find Presley and bring her in front of me, but everyone in the bar is parting, making a path right to us in the back corner.

“What the hell?” Jed says when a dark-haired woman emerges. “Holy shit.”

“Lucy?” Adam says, sounding confused and disbelieving.

“Hey, babe, it’s nuts out there, right? I forgot how crazy the night before tourist season begins is.” She slides between Adam and his girlfriend, kissing him on the cheek.

Holy shit is right.

“That’s Lucy?” Presley whispers, and I nod.

“Excuse me. Excuse me.” Lucy’s mom comes through the crowd next and her hand wraps around Lucy’s arm. “Lucy, you can’t run off like that.” Then she seems to notice who Lucy’s with. “I—oh, Adam.”

“Susan?” Adam asks, looking between his estranged wife and her mother.

Lucy slides her arm through Adam’s again and looks my way. “Oh. I saw the sign. Are you Presley?”

Presley nods.

“I’m Lucy Greene,” she introduces herself, then proceeds to give us all hugs and tell us how she missed us.

“Susan? What the hell is going on?” Adam asks, sounding more angry than confused now.

“She suffered an accident and… she lost her memory, Adam. She has amnesia.”

“So?”

Susan shakes her head, her concerned gaze on her daughter the entire time. “She thinks you’re still happily married.”

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Chapter One

Adam

“Did that woman just call you babe?” my new girlfriend, Alicia, asks with a “what the hell” tone.

My mouth is too dry to answer her question. I can’t stop staring at “that woman,” a.k.a. Lucy, and my thoughts are racing faster than an Indy car.

Before you assume I’m an asshole who cheats on his girlfriend, know I’m not. A year ago, the woman who just called me babe—my wife—walked out on me without any explanation. Now, after I’ve pulled myself from the depths of depression and tried to move on with my life, she approaches me at my brothers’ brewery as though we’re still married. I haven’t seen or spoken to her since she left.

If you want to be technical, she is still my wife. She never sent divorce papers, and it wasn’t until last week that I went to the town lawyer and asked him to start the process of drawing up papers. I was going to send them to her parents’ house in Idaho, which is where she said she was heading when she left.

Alicia clutches my arm because I still haven’t taken my eyes off of Lucy. My estranged wife is flitting around my family, hugging everyone and conveying how much she’s missed them, pausing at my brother Cade’s new fiancée, Presley. We’re supposed to be celebrating their engagement right now. Good thing Cade’s used to plans never going the way we expect—as often happens when you have a family as big as ours.

I spot Lucy’s mother, Susan, push through the crowd of gawkers in the brewery. Everyone’s whispering and staring at us. There couldn’t be a worse time for Lucy to show up out of the fucking blue.

“Susan?” I say because I’m hoping she has an answer as to why Lucy’s acting as if we’re still happily married. She doesn’t answer immediately, her concerned gaze focused solely on her daughter. The look is alarming enough to suggest there’s a missing puzzle piece that’s makes my stomach clench. “What the hell is going on?”

Susan’s gaze flickers to mine. She looks surprised—by my tone maybe. She scolds me with her narrowed eyes, but her shoulders fall. “She suffered an accident and… she lost her memory, Adam. Well, everything from after your wedding. She has amnesia.”

“So?” I ask.

Alicia’s breast brushes along my bicep as though she’s afraid I’m going to get away.

“She thinks you’re still happily married.”

My stomach clenching turns to full-on nausea. Married we are, but definitely not happily.

“You’re married?” Alicia asks, her arm winding out of mine.

I run a hand through my hair, looking to my father to somehow fix this for me. “Technically yes.”

“And you failed to ever mention this to me?”

The last person I have time for conflict with right now is Alicia. We’ve barely begun dating. Seeing her has been my first attempt to put myself out there since Lucy left.

“Excuse me.” Lucy comes back over and nudges between Alicia and me. She always was good at making sure people knew I was hers. If I wanted to go down memory lane, I’d remember that it was something I loved. “Who’s this girl?” she whispers in my ear.

“Lucy, we should go.” Susan takes Lucy’s hand and attempts to pull her along.

“Why would I leave? Look, I found Adam.” Just as Lucy’s gesturing toward me, her smile dims and she looks at her mom. “Wait… you mean…”

“You and Adam are no longer together,” Susan says.

A strangled cry leaves Lucy and she removes herself from me. “Oh.”

Lucy looks at Alicia as though she’s the reason we’re not together, causing fury to build in