When We First Met

When We First Met

A Forever Yours Novella
Cara Bastone

School’s out for the summer and public school teacher, Cat LaFievre, is ready to blow off some steam. A few nights of no-strings, mindless distraction with a sexy guy is exactly what she needs. Lucky for her, the perfect specimen lives across the hall from her. He’s gorgeous, a little ridiculous, and, according to a neighbor, very good at sex.

Quentin Foster has had a thing for Cat since they hit if off a few months ago. She’s smart, funny, and loves exploring the neighborhood—just like him. He thought he had a shot...until she admits she’s interested in hooking up with his clueless chick-magnet roommate.

Cat thought she needed a fling. But as their connection deepens, Cat realizes Quentin might be the real thing. Thing is, she may have ruined her shot with him...

Forever Yours series

When We First Met (prequel novella)
Just a Heartbeat Away

And coming soon

Can’t Help Falling
Flirting with Forever

Praise for Cara Bastone’s Just a Heartbeat Away

“An utterly satisfying and delicious read. One for the keeper shelf!”
—Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author

“JUST A HEARTBEAT AWAY is gorgeous, brilliant, with characters so unique and real they leap right off the page. It’s a master class in achy breaky yearning. Don’t start this one late at night unless you don’t need to do anything the next day except for pre-ordering the next one.”
—Sarina Bowen, USA TODAY bestselling author of the True North series

“Emotionally intense and real, JUST A HEARTBEAT AWAY touches the soft place in your soul. Cara Bastone’s debut novel will warm you from the inside out and stay with you long after you finish the book.”
—Christie Craig, New York Times bestselling author

When We First Met

Cara Bastone

Also available from

Cara Bastone

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Forever Yours

When We First Met (prequel ebook novella)

And coming soon

Just a Heartbeat Away

Can’t Help Falling

Flirting with Forever

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Epilogue

Chapter One

CAT LAFIEVRE WAS not a loser. But she sure had been losing a lot lately.

She flopped onto the couch in her small but comfortable apartment. The morning sun was just starting to creep across her floor. That was the main reason she was glad to live in the tallest building in the neighborhood; the rest of Brooklyn didn’t block her sunshine.

At the beginning of the school year, she’d been convinced that this would be the best year ever. Everything had been coming up aces.

She’d had a miraculous stroke of luck and been given a class of only twenty students, unheard of in her school district, where the class sizes tended into the midtwenties.

Her dad’s health was finally back on track after his heart attack two years ago and she no longer felt obligated to take the five-hour train ride every weekend just to help her mom.