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“You know you are. And you’re better at following instructions when we do this.” I drew her bottom lip beneath my teeth and released it. On reflex, she bit me back, doing the same. Little brat. “See how well you follow my lead?”
She huffed. “I’m not a dog that follows commands.”
“No, you’re definitely not.” I dove into her lips, kissing her like she was my last meal.
“Damn, what kind of project is this?” Roman was standing above us with his eyebrows raised and his arms crossed over his chest. Natalie was struggling beneath me in panic, trying to sit up, but I tightened my hold and glared at Roman.
“Don’t see any studying going on. Looks more like a lesson about the birds and the bees.” Fucking Nick stepped up behind him, giving his shitty two cents.
“Go away.” I scowled at both of them.
“What’s this?” Dmitri’s voice droned as his grumpy ass popped into the picture, stepping over to the couch. “You better not be fucking on this sofa. I just vacuumed and conditioned it.”
I was trying to ignore this joker with his ridiculousness. Ever since he found out he was going to be a father, he’d been borderline OCD about keeping the house spotless. We all wanted a clean house, but that fucker was close to being a stalker, chasing you around with a mop and vacuum in hand. Besides, I knew for a fact that he and Sorina had gotten their fuck on… on this very sofa. If I could kill all my friends with a look, and I was trying—believe me, I was—then they would’ve been annihilated.
“How you doing, Natalie?” Nick asked politely with a stupid smirk on his face as he leaned over the couch.
“Fine,” she croaked and ended up givingmea death glare, which, in turn, made me want to lash out at my friends, whom I’d already mentally thought about destroying in the first place. My thoughts were interrupted when Natalie bucked against me, trying to rise up again. I finally relented, not wanting to let her flail around and accidentally knee me in the balls. Taking a random knee to the nuts sucked, by the way. I bent over briefly, trying to get my shit together, taking a few deep, calming breaths. Why did I live with the assholes? The house seemed too damned crowded as of late.
She sat up and clutched her hands on her knees, looking at the flat-screen in front of us, making me doubly pissed that my roommates had fucked up my game to fuck her. Not to mention, they were just flat-out pissing me off. “Get out,” I said quietly, throwing another warning glance at my friends, who gave zero fucks and looked like they were about to laugh and let the real hazing begin. These idiots and their payback. The space in our house was growing smaller by the minute. Forget minutes… seconds… milliseconds.
Then Sorina waddled in at seven months pregnant, petite and thin, but looked like she’d swallowed a basketball. She, too, zeroed in on Natalie and walked over to stand in front of her. “Hi, Natalie.”
Natalie forced a smile, not missing a beat. “Hi. How are you feeling?”
Sorina placed her hands on her back, bending back slightly. “I feel like a balloon, and my feet are swelling. Other than that, I feel great.”
“Why don’t you sit down?” Dmitri suggested, moving to her side to guide her to the couch. “I’ll massage your feet.”
I rolled my eyes like a chick, and Natalie stood up. “I should probably go.”
“Come on. Don’t leave on our account,” Nick said. “Don’t you want to stay for the party?”
“Yes. Please stay,” Sorina added.
Party?“What party?” I tilted my head at Nick. In the not-so-distant past, we threw parties like it was confetti. Just give us a reason to be festive. But lately, we were all into our own shit.
“Just a small gathering with friends to celebrate. It might be our last blowout party at this house before we graduate.” Nick raised his chin at me. Dude was getting too damn sentimental lately.
“How did I not know about this?”
“You’ve been too busy, man,” Nick said.
He wasn’t wrong. I was so disconnected from whatever the fuck was happening at Hillside right now and what was happening in my life. All I thought about was her, all the time. She consumed me. That wasn’t good. I nodded back. “Yeah, we’ll hang out,” I answered for both of us. Natalie had that fucking deer-in-headlights look, but she could adjust. After all, we were just having fun, weren’t we?
A few hours later, the party was in full swing. At least a hundred people were in our house. Anyone from the football team, fraternities and sororities, and others were crowding our house as if we’d never missed a beat. It’d been a few months since we hosted a balls-out party. I used to live for this.
I made sure Natalie was at my side. She was uncomfortable; I could sense it. However, she looked hot as fuck in her outfit, which looked like a dress but had shorts, and I knew I needed to stay by her side because I’d shank any motherfucker who approached her.
“Axel.” I looked behind me, and Trey Lomas was coming our way—the last person I wanted around her. His eyes were zeroed in on my girl, and I pulled her against me.
“Lomas,” I acknowledged him curtly.
“Natalie. How you doing, girl?” he said and looked at me as if in challenge.
“Great.” She nodded her head with a small smile; however, she seemed to tense up.
“What do you want, Trey?” We used to be cool, but shit could go south quickly.
