Unsteady

Mason 'Brandy' de-Fleur is everything in a man that Ebony's mother warned her about; he's a mysterious playboy with a tendency to get in the pants of every girl he meets. Ebony's only seen him wandering campus and during her evening shifts at the local café, but on the night before spring break, Mason shows up at her dorm room soaked in blood that isn't his own.

Ebony's curiosity boils over the week as she follows the suspicious man around campus, and when she sees something that changes her life forever, Ebb is dragged into a problem that she can't talk her way out of.
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"Why did you choose me? Why did it have to be me?" I asked, voice hoarse in the cool night air that dropped through the cracks in the window frame.

I was an ordinary girl before this; I lived an ordinary life at an ordinary school. I had friends who I could trust. He changed all of that, and I needed to know why.

"You want the honest answer?" He whispered through the dark space between us. His words tasted like a lure, like the temptation I've been fighting my whole life. I nodded, and his calloused hand cupped my cheek, keeping my eyes in line with his piercing orbs of mahogany fire.

He breathed, and my anticipation brought me a step closer, until my lips were only inches away from his own.

"Because," He said, and I clung to his poisonous words like the desperate girl he made me out to be.

"Your dorm is right beside the bathroom, and I had to take a piss."