Page 58 of Necessary Roughness
“Wasn’t complaining.” I opened the pantry, searched for a moment, then selected a tube of Pringles. “Sorry to disturb you.”
“You weren’t,” he said bluntly.
I started to return to the bedroom, but hesitated. “Can I ask you something?”
He sighed, then lowered his textbook.
“Do you think it’s weird? What I’m doing with your teammates?”
Roman’s gaze bore into me for a few seconds. It felt like he could see right through me, directly into my core.
“I don’t think about it at all.” He tore his eyes from mine and returned to studying.
As I returned to the bedroom with my chips, I wondered if that was really true.
24
Roman
I was a man who prided himself on having a singular focus.
In class, the professor was the only thing I noticed.
When I was on the football field, the only thing going through my mind was reaching the opposing quarterback and punishing him for existing.
While studying, I was able to drown out all the noise in my life and focus on the words on the page.
And when I was in bed with a woman… well, you get the picture.
I hadn’t had a lot of successes in life, but the ones I did achieve? I owed it to my ability to focus.
So when my roommates’ fuck-buddy came over wearing lingerie that I could see beneath her dress? I gave it a few seconds of thought, then put my noise-canceling headphones on and returned to studying.
That worked just fine.
Until I got up to take a piss.
My mistake was taking off my headphones. Because as soon as I came out of the bathroom, I heard them.
More accurately, I heardher.
“Yes,” she was moaning, her pleasure only partially muffled by the door down the hall. “Right there, yes, please,yes!”
My cock woke up and paid attention. I was only a man, after all. And Sloane wasn’t ugly.
I shook it off, returned to my studying chair, and put my headphones back on.
But now my eyes skimmed the page of my textbook without really reading the words.
I knew my roommates had made an arrangement to fuck this girl. No emotion, no strings attached. Just sex.
But I hadn’t really expected them to fuck hertogether.
I shook off the thought and turned my eyes back to my textbook.
I struggled to regain my focus, though.
They’re having a threesome.
