Read Online No Regrets! (A Billionaire Country Romance) by Olivia Kobblestone - Free Book Online

 
     
    Just go get out of the car. Evie  commanded herself. She’d been sitting in her char for the last twenty minutes, just praying she could get the courage to go in there and tell Cole exactly how she felt.
    It wasn’t going to be easy, she’d been holding in those feelings for six years, all the while hoping that they would go away. That she would finally just see him as a friend.
    Because, honestly, that is what they were. Close friends since middle school, the two of them were always up to no good. But it never actually went further than that. They told each other about dates.
    They weren’t each other’s dates.
    She sighed. It was way too much to ask for to even consider dating him. He was too damn sexy, and hell. He was popular.
    He always had been, and even when she wondered why in the hell he was her friend.
    They were polar opposites in so many ways. He was the handsome, fancy, rich, jock who got everything handed to him.
    And yet, he never let it give him a big head. He was the last thing from arrogant, and he chose his friends based on who he liked.
    Not who society said he ought to like.
    That was Cole.
    Always doing exactly what he wanted, and making it look classy.
    It wasn’t Evie . She was the polar opposite, nerdy and a bit too curvaceous, she was never really popular. No one hated her, but most people didn’t go out of her way to be friends either.
    Except Cole.
    He begged her to come tonight. Said it would mean a lot.
    Hell. He even texted her.
    She wasn’t going to come. Not until she got that little text message that said one word.
    Please.
    Any other time she would have ignored it. Any other time she would have worked away.
    But she couldn’t. Not tonight. Not when so much was at stake.
    So she opened that car door and put her boots in the dirt, willing herself to walk down that path and directly into the party.
    All she needed to do was walk through the doors and into the back patio.
    To actually go through with it.
    Her body willed her away, back to a safe place. Where her nerves weren’t wrecked and her body wasn’t in full panic mode.
    It was silly. They’d been friends for years.
    But whenever she was around him, and all of his followers, it made her dizzy. Like she didn’t deserve even an ounce of his attention.
    Cole.
    Evie  pushed the French doors open to the back patio and observed the party in full swing. She was a little late, but she hadn’t planned on going. A single word from its host was all she needed to throw on a cotton dress and head over. She got that text from Cole thirty minutes ago. Okay, forty, but you know, she did spend ten of those minutes waffling in the parking lot.
    Please.
    It gnawed at her and pushed her forward. Please.
    Why did he have the power to do this to her? How did he get this power. It was beyond fair. It was absolutely ridiculous.
    And yet… she was powerless against it.
    Dammit. She wavered. She had a hard time saying no to him. Still, Evie  wasn’t about to put herself in a vulnerable position.
    She wasn’t sure she should be at this party, and had half a mind to turn around and walk back through the house and out the driveway to her little green car. But she didn’t. She gritted her teeth and walked through the small crowds looking for the home’s owner. Well, the heir anyways.
    There were far too many beautiful people there, and she felt… well, out of place. Not that she wasn’t pretty, she was, but the curvy, thick beauty didn’t consider herself to be anything out of the ordinary, so she was surprised when Cole invited her. Not that he wouldn’t; they had been close friends since high school, but she still couldn’t believe she was allowed into his inner circle.
    She recognized some of the people from high school, but many were a mystery to her. She assumed that they all came from the university, but she didn’t know them. Men in smart outfits and women in skimpy dresses seemed in abundance. And they looked at her like she