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Love Bites
Rachel K Burke
“Have you ever just connected with a person and had to fight to be with them? Well if you have, this book is for you.” – Diary of a Book AddictWhat do you do when you fall in love with your best friend’s boyfriend?That is the question that twenty-six year-old Justine Sterling has been asking herself ever since the day she met David Whitman, her best friend Renee’s boyfriend. Justine is determined to ignore her growing feelings for the irresistibly charming David, until one night, when she finds herself in the bed of the one person she should stay away from.When Justine and David’s affair ends in heartbreak, Justine is forced to repair the damaged friendship with her best friend. In doing so, she learns that right and wrong decisions aren’t always black and white, and sometimes you have to follow your heart to see where it leads.
Love Bites
RACHEL K. BURKE
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Praise for Rachel K. Burke (#uc4e6d987-40b0-54ae-89d4-2decceaed90c)
“I loved everything about this book. The writing was great and the characters are so likable that you will be rooting for them the whole way.”
Book Briefs
“When a book makes you smile as much as this one did, you know you’ve found a good thing.”
The Bookish Babe
“Seriously, the CUTEST story I’ve read in a long while!”
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“Have you ever just connected with a person and had to fight to be with them? Well if you have, this book is for you.”
Diary of a Book Addict
Contents
Cover (#ub338b30c-3880-5bb6-9e28-d23f01615349)
Title Page (#ubddceb36-3488-52fa-a528-75c28f6e697b)
Copyright (#u26c679e9-941f-578f-aa4a-bba3fd01d755)
Praise for Rachel K. Burke (#uc0352b74-822d-561b-b0ec-772c4b6fe385)
Chapter 1 (#uc93ea5b4-cc97-5ddc-a322-cff9264312db)
Chapter 2 (#u5f0c6f9a-72d8-5e0e-a6e2-1d6c0868e318)
Chapter 3 (#u279b6da0-aaeb-5c2b-9230-8a6dc381fb20)
Chapter 4 (#uc96446e2-fccf-52dc-858d-e6b309400d7d)
Chapter 5 (#u5a21d945-573f-5312-a338-f0915464c671)
Chapter 6 (#ua011d820-14eb-5767-a1f9-229aa4c1a799)
Chapter 7 (#udad212aa-049b-53bf-884f-795a7bc2d95b)
Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by Rachel K. Burke… (#litres_trial_promo)
Rachel K. Burke (#litres_trial_promo)
About HarperImpulse (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 1 (#uc4e6d987-40b0-54ae-89d4-2decceaed90c)
What do you do when you fall in love with your best friend’s boyfriend?
There it was: the question I had been asking myself since that first day. The day I met him.
The day that changed everything.
It was the question I had analyzed endlessly, hoping to find some sort of answer. The only problem was, there was no answer. Because when you’re forced to choose between the two people you love most in the world, either way you lose.
Sure, I know what you’re thinking. Best friends don’t fall in love with each other’s boyfriends. They can’t. It’s an unspoken rule. Even if the guy is downright perfect, the fact that he’s with your best friend prohibits you from falling for him.
Right?
I can honestly say that anyone who believes this has never, ever felt the way that I felt about David Whitman.
My name is Justine Sterling. I grew up in Rockland, Massachusetts, a small town south of Boston that most people have never heard of. With a population of under 20,000, there wasn’t much to do in Rockland growing up, but when you’re young, you have no idea how much of the world you’re missing. I thought the rest of the world was just like Rockland. I imagined kids all over America living their lives exactly the way we did – riding bicycles, walking to the local convenience store, begging our parents to drive us two towns over to the nearest shopping mall.
For me, Rockland was the greatest place on Earth.
Still, there was always something missing, and I finally discovered what that was when I met Renee Evans. I never held an interest in sports or cheerleading, so in a limited-activity town like Rockland, my happiness stemmed from new CDs, new clothes, new posters. Only I never realized how much more fun those things were when you had someone to share them with. Someone who appreciated them just as much as you did.
I met Renee during my freshman year of high school. She had just transferred from a local Catholic school, and seeing as how Rockland High didn’t have many new students, she was immediately scrutinized and labeled “the new girl.” Everyone in Rockland had grown up with one another, and their families had grown up with one another. No one left Rockland. It was an intimidating place to start over.
