Love Me by Tiffany Patterson

“…give me three months.”
“Three months for what?”
“To make you love me.”
For years I’ve withheld my feelings for my best friend, Monique. After dating losers, she needs a man who’s docile, safe … a nice guy.
I’ve never been that.
When we were younger, I couldn’t control my temper when it came to keeping her safe. My loss of control forced the only woman I loved to move hundreds of miles away.
Over the years, I tried to accept that I wasn’t what she needed, even when she became engaged to another man, and it ripped my heart in half.
But then her fiancé turns out to be another scumbag who dumps her after a stay in the hospital due to her type 1 diabetes.
She finally returns to our hometown, desperate to find her footing in life again.
And I’m done sitting on the sidelines.
I’m a grown man now–still dangerous, but I’ve learned to manage my dark urges over the years. I can pretend to be the nice guy she needs if that means finally making her mine. That’s the side of me I don’t allow Monique to see when I tell her it’s time….time for us to be more than friends.
But Monique believes she is a burden I don’t need.
She doesn’t get it….
I offer her a deal. I’ll give her the money she needs to start the art gallery she’s always wanted. And….
“…you’ll give me three months.”
“Three months for what?”
“To make you love me.”
Then I hold my breath to see if she takes the deal with the best friend who’s also the devil in disguise…