Page 19 of Chase Lovett Wants Me

“You are weird. But I like your weird.”

I side-eye him. “I actually didn’t think you would come back.”

He frowns. “What do you mean?”

I roll my eyes to the ceiling. “I figured you’d find your friends and they’d find more friends and you’d end up hanging out and we’d get called back to the dorms and that would be that.”

He runs a hand through his hair, eyes darting to the side. “Is that what you wanted to happen?” He sounds so…hurt, almost?

“No, but last night, emotions were running pretty high and things happened, and I don’t want you to feel like you have to hang out with me because of that.” This is one of my biggest personal issues. In high school, sometimes I’d be invited to things, but often it was in the hopes that I’d bring my sister along. These days I’m mostly the silent observer no one notices, but I have these moments, like last night and now, where I step out of the box and go with the bluntest honesty ever.

“I’m not hanging out with you because I feel obligated. I’m hanging out with you because I like you. You’re fucking beautiful, you’re cool as shit, you tell it like it is, and you’re a little dirty. Which I’m super down with, by the way. Not that I expect more of what happened last night, but just know my hands areone hundred percent committed to bringing you pleasure whenever you want it.”

“Last night was fun.” I’m not telling him I like him too, even though I do. Every cisgendered female in our dorm is lusting after him, just like me. He needs zero in the way of an ego boost.

“So much fun.” He taps my laptop. “Now back to this spicy romance business. I need to know more about it.”

I sigh. “I writeLord of the Ringsfanfic.”

“You mean those movies with the hobbits and stuff?” he asks.

“They were books before they were movies,” I point out.

“Right. Yeah. They’re super long, the books and the movies. I mostly listen to audiobooks when I have to read novels.”

“It’s still reading, just with your ears.” Plus, it can really bring the story to life with the right narrators. And don’t get me started on the immersive graphic audio. That’s a movie in your mind. I turn every hero into Aragorn.

“So back to this fanfic. I want to know more.”

I roll my eyes to the ceiling. Am I really going to admit this? “I write Arwen, Legolas, and Aragorn stories.”

“I don’t know what that means,” Chase says.

“Where the three of them end up together.”

“Together as in…”

“Bed. Or wherever, but they get naked with each other.”

Chase blinks at me. “Like a threesome?”

“Yeah.” I wait for him to start laughing.

“One girl, two guys?” he clarifies.

“Yes.”

His brows pull together and his gaze narrows. “Is that like…a thing for you?”

I can’t figure out his expression. “In fanfic, yes.”

His eyes narrow further. “What about in real life?”

My brows shoot up. “Uh, I mean, I guess if Aragorn and Legolas were real people I would jump into that scenario, but mostly I don’t like my attention on more than one person at a time.”

His shoulders come down from his ears. “Okay, good. That’s good.”

I shove his shoulder. “Oh my God. Were you jealous for a hot second?”

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