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I close my eyes, reliving the memory of her panic-stricken expression as she fled from the couch.
Shit, I’m screwed.
She probably hates me even more than before.
Sleeping on the hard-ass couch is my punishment. Penance for taking what’s not mine, further atoned by the memory of her lips keeping me awake all night.
“What’s up with you?” Chris asks, startling me from my thoughts.
“Huh?” I focus back on him to find him staring. “Nothing,” I say, a little too quickly. “Nothing happened.” When he narrows his eyes, I clear my throat. “Uh, thanks for letting her stay here. I know it’s probably not what you had in mind for your first college apartment, but she can’t go back to her room, and there’s really nowhere else for her to stay.”
“It’s no problem, man,” he says, his tone suspicious. “Glad I could help. I’m gone half the time anyway.” He pushes off the counter, still eyeing me like he can read my mind. “I’m gonna go grab my gear and get an early start. Meet you at the field?”
I nod at the same time my phone pings.
I cross the kitchen, cup of coffee in hand and sink down onto the couch. I grab my phone from the coffee table and groan when I see it’s a message from Graham in the group chat.
GRAHAM: Rest in peace, brother.
The blood drains from my face. For a moment I think they somehow know what happened last night.
That Teagan knows I mauled his sister.
But a quick glimpse at the conversation reveals that Teagan outed me sometime last night—probably when I was sucking Brynn’s face—and Graham is simply referring to my living with Brynn,notthe heated make-out session on the couch.
I release the air in my lungs as my fingers quickly fly over the keys on my phone, relieved enough to type back a response.
ME: What happened to taking this to the grave?
TEAGAN: Oops. It was too good not to share.
ATLAS: So, how did your first night go? Are your balls still intact?
KNOX: Twenty bucks said they argued within the first fifteen minutes.
Close. She took twenty in the shower,thenwe argued. Then kissed.
Fuck.I rake a hand through my hair. I sure as hell can’t sharethat.Touching Brynn will go with me to the grave.
ME: It was more like twenty minutes.
KNOX: So, how the hell did this happen?
TEAGAN: Brynn has a psychotic roommate who also likes to do blow in her spare time.
GRAHAM: Seriously?
ME: Seriously. The other night, I walked Brynn back to her room after an altercation with Douche Dick Stan, and when she opened her door, there she was. Creepy Cate in all her glory, snorting that shit right on Brynn’s fucking desk.
KNOX: NFW!
ATLAS: Who’s Douche Dick Stanley?
ME: Some tool she was seeing for a very brief moment before she served him a right hook.
TEAGAN: Sis did me proud.
ME: I haven’t seen him yet, and Brynn said he wasn’t in class yesterday, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she broke his nose.
