*FREE WITH PAID BONUS CHAPTER*After being dumped by her boyfriend, Elodie Shepherd resigns herself to loving her older brother's best friend from afar, just like she always has, even though he only sees her as his best friend's immature kid sister.
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I woke up with a furnace against my back and drifting sunlight filtering through sheer curtains.
Small flecks of dust floated through the air and caught the light pitching through the small dorm room, casting swirling speckled shadows against the cream walls.
Matthew shifted behind me and my mind struggled to catch up to the events of the night before, and when they did finally register, heat flooded my veins.
I rolled over to find Matthew's face inches from mine, a black dusting of facial hair coating his angular cheekbones and kissing his plump lips.
Why hadn't he tried to finish himself the night before? Was he trying to make me think that he wasn't wanting to take advantage of me?
If anything, it felt as if I were the one taking advantage of him.
He'd made all my sharpest fantasies come to life the night before, and I couldn't help wondering if he could do the same with the rest of my other fantasies, without ever having asked me in the first place what they were.
It was like instinctually, he knew exactly what I had wanted and had given it to me tenfold.
I shivered in the bed as I recalled his ministrations against my flesh, but jumped as a loud banging sound erupted from the hallway.
"Shhh, my roommate is probably still sleeping!"
I jumped upright in the bed, forcing Matthew to come with me. I stared over at the other empty twin bed in my room as I fought to get my brain to keep up with my heart.
Without a word, I darted to the bathroom and snagged a pair of sleep shorts and a tank top on the way, considering I was still stark naked underneath the robe that Matthew had helped me slide up my skin the night before, right as we'd both fallen asleep.
"Oh, um, you're not Elodie Shepherd, are you?"
My roommate's soft voice floated through the thin bathroom walls as I changed as quickly as I possibly could, and since I was already late to the party I decided to brush my teeth and hair. Fuck it, if she was already meeting Matthew, one extra minute in the bathroom wouldn't hurt me.
Throwing my long hair up into a high ponytail and flushing when I realized I didn't have a bra but it was too late to grab something else, I prodded the bathroom door open and my jaw almost dropped completely to the ground when I saw the spectacle before me.
My new roommate was Taryn. Taryn, the beautiful dark skinned goddess with auburn and golden high-lighted hair, coiffed into a long braid that brushed her stomach and matched her sheer overall perfection.
And then there was Matthew, standing at attention while also still looking immaculate, like we hadn't just spent the night together. How did his hair still look unrumpled, his features unswollen as if the sleep hadn't affected him at all? He looked perfectly out of place, like he'd only been here for a moment.
