Page 1 of Men Who Yearn
Chapter 1
Year 4 – Spine Ridge University
Kayla
Every bite I take out of my sandwich becomes harder and harder to swallow because of those eyes.Those damn dark brown eyes that look up from a laptop every other minute to take a very direct, intense glance at us.
At me.
Or at least, that’s what it feels like while I’m sitting here in the grass, trying to enjoy my lunch.It’s not often we all get to hang out together as a group.Though, it did take me a while to get used to the fact that Penelope and Crystal are going out with boys from the Skull and Serpent Society and the Tartarus House, where some of the most notorious boys on campus have made their home.
But not even them are as unnerving as the forty-year-old suited-up man with a chiseled jaw and a neatly shaven beard staring at us from a bench in the distance.
“Goddammit …” I murmur to myself, as I take another bite.
“What’s wrong?”Penelope asks.
“Nothing,” I say, swiftly swallowing it, not wanting to make a fuss when we’re finally together again.
Especially not while Felix is sitting across from me.
Because it’s most definitely his dad working on that bench.
“So … Felix …” I try to smile but it’s only returned with a snarl.
“What?”he growls.
Penelope shoves him with her elbow and it immediately makes him loose his murderous gaze.“Be nice, please.”She looks at me.“Go on.What’d you want to ask him?I promise he won’t bite.”She chuckles.
“At least not her,” Dylan muses, and Felix throws him a deathly glare.
Felix takes a big bite out of his sandwich, and I clear my throat to get rid of the awkward silence.“So, your father is the dean, right?”
“Unfortunately.”
“Don’t you find it odd?I mean, since he’s here every day, talking with other students when they don’t even know he’s your dad.”
He simply shrugs.“I don’t care.”
“As long as he lets us do whatever we want, why does it matter?”Dylan says, raising a brow.
“He’s very strict, even though you can’t see it,” Penelope says.
I frown.“Really?”
She nods.“He’s protective over his kids.”
“He actually threatened Lana’s boyfriends,” Crystal pitches in, and everyone looks at her.“She told me she had a tough time convincing him they were all right.”
“Not the least bit surprising to me,” Alistair says, folding his arms.
“Those fuckers don’t deserve her,” Felix says, making a fist.
“Felix, chill.Please.”Penelope rolls her eyes.“It’s Lana’s choice, not yours.”
“Well, it’s good that your father cares so much about you and Lana,” I say, and I glance at him while he types away on his laptop.I wonder what’s so important that it couldn’t wait until he got back into his office.This must be break-time for him too.
“He’s watching us, isn’t he?”Felix grumbles.
