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Charlie Sunshine by Lily Morton & Narrated by Joel Leslie
Narrated by Joel Leslie
Close Proximity, Book 2
Sometimes love is a lot closer to home than you think.
Charlie Burroughs can’t keep a man. All he wants is a good relationship like the ones he sees his friends having, but none of the men he picks ever work out. Despite him trying to be the perfect boyfriend, the men are either threatened by his looks or his epilepsy or a combination of the two. It’s lucky that he has his best friend Misha to turn to. The two of them are closer than peas in a pod and fiercely loyal to each other. He can’t imagine his life without Misha in it.
Misha Lebedinsky is the complete opposite of his best friend. Being the support system for his mum and twin sisters leaves Misha with neither the time nor the inclination for a relationship. Quick and frequent hook-ups are his favourite means of communication and any other pesky emotional needs he has are met by Charlie, who he’s devoted to. He lives a life of happy compartmentalization with no intention of ever changing.
All of this changes when the two best friends move in together.
Being in close proximity means that they suddenly start to see each other in a very different light. But Charlie struggles when his drive to be the perfect partner clashes with the fact that he’s in love with a man who knows every little thing about him. And even if he can get past that, can a relationship ever work with a man who’d need a dictionary to tell him what love means?
From bestselling author Lily Morton comes a love story about a sunny librarian who has relationship written all over him and a banker who doesn’t even have it in his blurb. This is the second book in the Close Proximity series, but it can be read as a standalone.
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I look at Misha. “Lovely as this surprise visit is, haven’t you got millionaires’ accounts to juggle and the world’s financial markets to conquer?”
He shakes his head. “You have a very exotic view of my job.”
“Humour me.”
He shrugs. “Every minute of every day.”
Bethany laughs, and Misha grins at her.
“You moving after work?” she asks me. “Going to your swanky new riverside apartment?”
My friend Jesse moved out of our old flat last month, and I couldn’t afford to stay there on my own. I’d started to put out feelers about getting a new person to share, but Misha promptly asked me to move in with him, saying his old flatmate had moved out and he’d got a spare bedroom.
I sigh. “I am. However, I’m deeply regretting the impulse that made me allow Misha to share it with me.”
Misha shakes his head, and Bethany grins at me. “You management-level people make all the money.”
“We certainly do, young lady,” I say pompously. “And, if you apply yourself, you too can reach the dizzy heights of library management and the two-figure pension package.”
Misha laughs. “Why are you here?” I ask him. “We cleared most of my place last night, and I can pick up the last few bits myself after work.”
“I’ll help you with that stuff.” His tone is uncompromising, and I don’t bother arguing. He carries on speaking. “I popped in because you forgot something.”
I frown, trying to think what it is, but my head feels fizzy with tiredness. I shrug and grab the returns trolley, determined to beat this lethargy. “Walk and talk,” I instruct him and ignore his sarcastic salute.
We make our way towards the non-fiction shelves, and I start to group the books together by subject. “What did I forget?” I ask.
He holds out his hand. On his palm is a shiny silver key on my old Union Jack keychain. “Your new house key.”
I grin at him as I pocket the key. “You sure you want me moving in with you into that bastion of tidiness that you call your flat?”
Misha shakes his head disapprovingly. “Only you would make tidiness sound like one of the seven deadly sins. Anyway, it’s a bit late to change my mind now, seeing as you dumped most of your crap in the middle of my lounge last night.”
He holds out his arms for the pile of books. After depositing them, I take a book off the top of the stack and shelve it.
“It’s not crap,” I say automatically. “It’s highly useful stuff.”
“Like the beanbag which has already shed most of its beans in the hallway? I can’t tell you how happy I was with that when I stepped on them barefoot this morning.”
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About Lily:
Lily writes contemporary romance novels, and specialises in hot love stories with a good dose of humour.
Lily lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven’t had a proper conversation with her since she bought her first Kindle.
She has spent her life with her head full of daydreams and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing, because how else could she get to spend her time with hot, funny men!
She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations – chocolate Baileys! Her lifetime’s ambition is to have a bath in peace without being shouted by one of her family.
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