Page 11 of Veil of Lies

He reached out and grabbed me around the waist, tugging me back against his chest. The soft huff of breath against my neck paralyzed me, preventing me from moving a muscle.

“It sounds like you’ve been playing with the wrong guys, sweetheart,” he purred in my ear. “I’m happy to show you what you’ve been missing.”

For one micro-second, my brain ran through a ‘what if’ scenario, where this incredibly hot boy laid me out like a buffet and fucked me into the next life, but then I came back down to earth with an almighty bump.

Even if I did want to fuck his brains out - and that was a very hypothetical scenario - I couldn’t. Relationships of any kind were off the table. So I did what I should have done the moment he touched me.

He released a loud ‘oomph’ when I drove my elbow into his abs. I was pretty sure it didn’t hurt him, but the element of surprise was enough to loosen his grip on me and I pulled away quickly before he could dickmatize me again.

“Nah, that’s a hard pass from me. I’m not really interested in being another notch on your belt, or catching an STD. But thanks anyway.”

His laughter followed me as I jogged away, eager to put as much distance between me and him as humanly possible.

Chapter 11

Harley

Instead of heading back to our apartment for some much-needed sleep, I watched as the cranky girl with the weird green hair disappeared down the corridor. The way her shorts hugged her shapely ass held my attention for far longer than it should have done, given I’d just spent half the night fucking Cassie’s brains out.

It had been a fun interlude, but I was done with Cassie. Not that I’d told her that. She was pretty, decent enough in bed, but I was bored. Bored of the way she clung to me, desperate for attention all the time, bored of the vapid shit that fell out of her mouth. She and Rowena had a lot in common, and I totally got why Brax treated Rowena so badly.

I wasn’t that much of a douche, but it had become increasingly difficult to be nice to Cassie outside of bed. Fucking her I could do but she wanted more than just sex. She had done for a while now. I’d ignored all the not-so-subtle hints about meeting her parents and going away for a romantic weekend mini-break, but despite that, she wanted me to declare we were in an official relationship.

Yeah…no. Not happening. Ever.

I didn’t do relationships. Not romantic ones anyway. Sex was fine, I could offer that. Even cuddles too if I was in the right mood, i.e. stoned or so fucking tired I couldn’t be fucked to move. But meeting the parents? Booking romantic vacations? Hell to the no.

Not. On. Your. Fucking. Life.

Cassie just hadn’t got the memo.

But she would soon.

Right now, I wasn’t in the mood for drama. Maybe once I’d caught up on sleep and eaten my bodyweight in protein, I’d be better able to cope with the emotional shit. I was fully expecting tears. Hysterics. And worse. That’s how it usually panned out.

Ugh. What a fucking nightmare. If only I could meet a girl who was happy with no-strings-sex.

I wandered along the silent corridor, thinking about Miss Green Hair with the sexy ass and debated asking her if she was up for a friends-with-benefits arrangement. The downside, of course, was that her room was next to Cassie’s. That was potentially a problem, but not insurmountable. I’d banged plenty of girls on this floor. As long as I arrived and left when it was quiet, nobody was any the wiser.

It was food for thought.

Perhaps my little green-haired witch would change her mind about me if I sent her a gift?

Yeah. I bet she would.

Girls loved gifts.

I wasn’t a flowers and chocolates kind of guy. I could do a lot better than that. I felt sure she would appreciate something more practical.

A quick shopping session on Amazon was in my future.

Just as soon as I’d slept for a few hours.

With a plan in place to seduce my sexy green-haired witch, I grinned all the way back to my bed.

Chapter 12

Stella

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