Plays Well With Others: How to Date Your Best Friend

Am I fake dating my best friend? Hear me out…<br/>What I envisioned: Throwing myself a breakup party, a glittery fete at which I’d lift a glass and celebrate being free and single again.<br/>What I did: Drink too much champagne and blurt out to my best guy friend that I’d really like to get back on the horse.<br/>But what I truly don’t expect is Carter’s answer – he volunteers as tribute.<br/>With his sinful brown eyes and too-good-to-be-true body it’d be no hardship for me to say yes, though I certainly don’t want him to feel obligated to, um, service me, just because my failed, loveless marriage was a s-e-x desert.<br/>But since the charming and confident pro football star owes five public dates to his dating app sponsor, we make a deal to help each other out.<br/>Pretty soon, our public how to date lessons turn into, ahem, very private ones. And I’m a star student, graduating quickly from flirty banter and lingering looks to toe-curling, sheet-grabbing, mind-blowing hours of physical education.<br/>The problem? Turns out learning to date again feels a lot like the real thing. Can our friendship withstand all these late-night bedroom sessions?<br/>Especially since I’m suddenly longing for my best friend and there’s nothing fake about my feelings…