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As soon as he tied the knots, she turned and straightened her hair.

“Do I look okay?” she asked, worried.

He smirked. “You look exactly like you have been grinding on top of me while being topless.”

Her cheeks heated. “Jerk.”

He laughed.

“You need to straighten too,” she said pointing to his hair which had turned messy after she had tugged on it during their passion-filled moments.

Amused, he ran his fingers through it, straightening it a little.

“You go first,” he advised.

She nodded. Just when she was about to leave, he pulled her closer and kissed her mind numbingly once again before he stepped back with a small smile.

“See you later, Harvard.”

With a shuddering breath, she escaped the music room.

She went into the restroom to quickly freshen up her lipstick to hide her swollen lips and apply a little more makeup to cover her reddened cheeks. She tried to remove all traces of what transpired in the semi-dark music room.

For the rest of the event, she remained far away from her tormentor. But she always felt his gaze on her. And whenever some guy spoke to her, her tormentor’s eyes intensified.

Heat once again bloomed in her cheeks as her tormentor’s gaze lowered on her aching, sensitive breasts, reminding her of their passionate moments.

Possessive devil.

CHAPTER 29

After a whirlwind of a weekend, even though Ava had enjoyed herself at Nitya’s engagement, she was glad to be back to the campus. She had to catch up on assignments and take an additional shift at the hospital to make up for her absence during the weekend.

But not everyone was glad that she was back, especially her roommate.

“You are only embarrassing yourself and proving how pathetic you are.”

Ava was fixing herself a cup of coffee in the apartment kitchen after a long day when Pooja chose to verbally attack her.

“What are you talking about?” Ava asked. She was too tired to think of what had upset her roommate.

Pooja glared. “Just because you keep throwing yourself on Abhi, don’t think you have a chance with him. He recognizes trash from class.”

Ava controlled herself from letting out an exasperated sigh.

“Pooja, Nitya invited you as well to her engagement. But you chose not to join us. I chose to go. And if Abhiram Simha chose to go as well, how is it my fault?”

Pooja continued to glare. Ava knew her roommate hadn’t known that Abhi would attend Nitya’s engagement event.

“I saw the engagement pictures!” Pooja snapped. “You deliberately stood next to Abhi!”

It was the devil who deliberately came and stood next to me and bothered me by running his fingers on my bare back.

Ava wished she could say that. But she didn’t want to. Not just because she and her tormentor wanted to keep their relationship a secret, but also because she genuinely didn’t want to hurt Pooja. Her roommate’s one-sided crush was causing the jealous behavior.

“Stay away from Abhi!” Pooja snapped before storming back to her room.

But he won’t stay away from me.

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