BLURB ➞
I’m good at hiding my feelings.
Having to pretend I’m not in love with my best friend?
Pfft. That’s child’s play.
Here’s how I do it: I avert my eyes when he walks out of his room, shirtless in all his toned glory. I squash the butterflies that fill my stomach every time he slowly unfurls a dimpled smile. And, most importantly, I keep an arsenal of “personal massagers” in my bedside drawer. Wink.
Not to brag, but Aiden Smith isn’t hard to resist if you’ve been doing it for as long as I have. In fact, we might have continued as best friends forever if not for the fact that I needed him to play the part of my fake boyfriend.
Date me like you mean it, I told him. Nudge nudge. C’mon, just go along with a little lie, help a girl out, and then we can all return to life as we know it.
Except he veered from the plan.
He crossed the line.
Flirting with me when no one else was around? Pinning me down and kissing me like that? Okay, how exactly is taking off my bra part of the ruse, Aiden?!
I’d ask him about it if I could, but well…things got ugly and we’re not best friends anymore.
In fact, we’re the exact opposite.
Now, I have to play nice even though I want to crush his heart in the palm of my hand.
Pretending not to love Aiden was the easy part.
Pretending not to hate him?
Well…I might need a little more practice.
I didn’t tell him the truth, and I didn’t tell him goodbye. I pretended the call dropped, hung up and shut the door on us for good.
ARC REVIEW ➞
I absolutely love R.S. Grey. Her stories are always the perfect mixture of laughs, romance and heat. Date Me Like You Mean It is no exception to this. I completely devoured this book in one sitting.
Maddie and Aiden meet at their siblings wedding and when Maddie just so happened to be moving to Austin and Aiden needed a roommate it only made sense that they would live together. I loved the friendship they formed as roommates. There was hilarious banter, some flirty and of course, there is no denying the chemistry they had. It seemed natural they’d pretend to date, however, Maddie quickly realizes that this was everything she hoped for and more when it came to dating Aiden and her feelings for him. That is until everything changed…..
This story is split into two parts. The first part is only from Maddie’s POV and you get to see how they met, to becoming roommates, best friends and fake dating. Part two takes place a year later and is done in both Maddie and Aiden’s POV’s.
I loved Maddie and Aiden. Watching them navigate through their friendship and the feelings they have for each other was entertaining. They had amazing chemistry from the start. There were a few bumps in the road they had to overcome but it was worth it in the end.
If you’re looking for a funny best friends to enemies to lovers romance with loads of chemistry this is one to check out.
