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“Well, it seems I’m joining the party at the right time.” We both snapped our heads round to the open door to see another guy stood across the hall in front of the opposite dorm.Jesus. Are all the guys around here models or something? New guy was tall and slim, palest of pale skin with jet black hair that just skimmed his shoulders. His lips were sculpted with a deep cupid’s bow and a deep pink against his pale features. As he dropped the large duffel bag that had been slung over his shoulder, he came to lean against my door frame, watching Lance and I with beautiful, sage green eyes.
Lance stood, placing himself between me and the beautiful stranger. “You are?” he asked, shoving his hands in his pockets and regarding the other man with narrowed eyes. New guy just looked him up and down and then tilted his head to do the same to me with a mischievous smile.
“Hayden Pullman.” Holding his hand out to Lance, who shook it. “I’d ask if you were here dropping your girl off, butfrom the whole ‘don’t touch my underwear’ conversation, I’m guessing she’s not your girl?”
“Lance Preston, 10B. I was just introducing myself to our new neighbour, Elle.”
“Hi.” I stepped forward and shook Hayden’s hand. He looked me up and down again, his bottom lip rolling between his teeth making my legs clench together. “Great to meet another neighbour.”
“Back at you,” he said with a wink.
Thundering footsteps made their way up the stairs until my bearded saviour from earlier was in front of my door. He frowned at our little group, clearly not understanding what we were doing. His eye twitched as he saw me and then he concentrated on Lance, addressing him as though the other two of us weren’t there.
“They said we can switch rooms if both parties put it in writing that they’re happy to do so.” His deep voice was serious and controlling, much like his demeanour.
Lance rolled his eyes. “I told you it’s fine.”
“Who is in 10C?”
“That would be me, my friend.” Hayden turned to the big guy with a wide smile.
“As you haven’t unpacked yet, would you be willing to switch to 10B?”
Hayden peeked at the doors and turned back to us with that cheeky smile again. “And share a wall with this vixen?” He gestured at me. “Fuck man, how could I turn that down?”
I smirked at the floor, but Lance seemed less amused. “Brent,” he snapped, “I said it’s fine.”
What?Brent?That’sBrent? So, I am living with dangerous beauty, cool sex-god, and cheeky pretty-boy. Great, just great. “I guess I’ll be finding my girl-squad elsewhere,” I hadn’t actually meant to say that out loud, but it happened. Lance laughed out loud while Brent just scrunched his face, and Hayden quirked a brow in my direction.
“You know,” Lance said, smiling at me in amusement. “I hear men and women can be friends nowadays, I’m up for it if you are.” His eyes took on a wicked gleam and I licked my lips at hisstare.No, Eleanor. You must not sleep with your hot new dorm-mates.
“Hmm,” I pretended to contemplate. “Guy friends…” I pouted my lips and tapped my finger on my chin. “I like it, let’s give it a go.”
2
BRENT
“So, as we’re all friends now, we should go out tonight!” The girl from the stairway jumped slightly and clapped her hands together excitedly. Her tits bounced with the movement and my jaw hurt from how hard I clenched it.Don’t stare. Don’t stare. Don’t stare.She had completely knocked me off balance when she came crashing into me earlier today, and I don’t mean physically. I have never seen someone so beautiful; honey blonde hair streaked with lighter and darker shades, eyes so pale they’re almost silver, and perfectly plump lips made for sin. Her figure was curved in all the right places and now that she’d shed the hoodie, I could see her perky breasts barely covered by the thin top she wore, not that she seemed to mind.
“I’m down for that,” the other guy next to me said.
I looked to Lance, who was staring at the hot chick with eyes that practically had hearts in them.Shit. Apparently my cousin had also noticed what I had already seen. The goth guy seemed to be pretty enamoured too. This will not end well.
Not one for strangers or drunkenness, I hate clubs. They just never really appealed but I’m here for Lance, working; I do what he does. School was not fun for me, I’ve never thrived in education and wouldn’t have ever pictured myself going to university, especially not one as prestigious as St La Salle, and my grades at school certainly wouldn’t have gotten me in. Luckily, Lance’s father made a generous donation for me to attend, not to mention he’s Syd Preston and you don’t say no to Syd Preston. My stomach turned to lead when Lance announced he wanted to go to university and completely sank when Syd actually agreed, to everyone’s surprise. Where Lance goes, I go; so here I am. At fucking university.
“I could use a drink,” Lance said with a smiled. “Elle, this is Brent by the way, your final roommate.”
“Oh, we’ve met.” She swivelled her eyes to me and flashed me with a brilliant white smile. When Lance looked between us questioningly, she continued, “Brent saved me from certain death on the stairs earlier.”
I grunted at her overdramatization of our first encounter making her smirk, looking me up and down with undeniable heat in her eyes.Don’t even think about it, princess. Never going to happen.Not when Lance was clearly interested. Still, knowing she was the slightest bit interested in me made it a lot harder to keep my resolve.
“Way to go, man. You’re making us all look bad with first impressions like that,” the guy I had yet to be introduced to said.
Elle laughed. “Don’t worry, you’re all doing pretty good.” She sashayed further into her room with a tantalizing sway to her full hips. “Now, you boys get out of here. I’ve got like a million boxes to unpack and to find something to wear. You can come by and get me at eight.” She threw a wink over her shoulder, kicking the door shut behind her making the dark-haired stranger snort.
“Oh, she’s going to be trouble,” he said. “Hayden,” the new guy held out his had to me. He was slim, skinny almost, but his grip was firm.
“Brent.”
