said firmly.
The group stared at me for a few moments, before Donny broke the silence with a laugh.
“You sure do have a lot of non-boyfriends,” he said, giving me a saucy wink.
Wanna join the club? I thought, but merely blushed and looked away…just in time to see the secretive laughter flash in Briar’s eyes.
seven
Candy showed up the next day and pestered me with questions, a little put out that she’d heard from Briar I’d actually gone to the uni club without her…when she’d been trying to get me to go all year. Thankfully, Mason had heard that she was back and swooped in to rescue me before she could get too carried away. Unfortunately, that also meant I was left wandering around campus for the next few hours whilst they used the room.
Classes started up again on the Monday, and I found myself run ragged as I hurried to purchase my new text books, find all my new classrooms and then endure the forty minutes of muscle torture inflicted on me by Alec. Yep, Alec and Briar’s determination to fatten me up hadn’t eased in the slightest. Well, okay, to be fair, they’d stopped piling my plate with a ridiculous amount of food. The day was long and I was relieved to escape to my room after dinner.
I collapsed on my bed, marvelling again at how lucky I was to have landed a free ride to a university that provided its students with plush, king-sized single beds. Yeah, okay, so I had to share this stylish, comfortable room with a messy party-animal that often brought her boyfriend back, but it was still pretty damn decent. Next year I'd be able to upgrade to a single room. I sighed with pleasure, imagining my own special haven. Growing up with so many siblings made me treasure privacy, quiet and solitude.
I glanced over to the other side of the room where Candy was dancing around in woolly pjs and playboy bunny slippers to a song I couldn't quite make out from the earphones she was using. It seemed someone had had a good first day back! I groaned. My first day of our second semester had been extremely tiring and all I wanted to do was go to sleep. Well, what I really wanted was to be back in Sydney with Briar's family-but I guess sleep would just have to do.
A firm knock sounded at the door, but Candy didn't seem to hear it. It's probably just Mason, I thought with a grimace. I got up and slowly opened the door, hoping it wasn't Mason and that I wouldn't have to find somewhere else to sleep. I froze, staring up at the unexpected guest in bewilderment. Stone stood in the doorway, propped against the frame, his leaning stance not doing anything to disguise his large size. His hard, stone-grey eyes swept over my warm, fluffy, yellow pjs, then shot up to stare at Candy. Candy turned mid-dance and froze. She grinned at him and whipped out her earphones.
With a slight movement of his head and the narrowing of his gaze, Candy read the command in his eyes: Get out. She winked at me and hurriedly moved past him on her way out the door. His gaze moved to me and he slowly stepped over the threshold, shutting the door behind him. I averted my stare, feigning an interest in the geometric patterns on the carpet. I could hear the rhythm of my pulse pounding in my ears, feel the blood rushing through my veins as I struggled to silence my harried breathing. What was he doing here? What did he want with me? I wanted to dare a glance up into those dominating, powerful eyes- but feared the command I'd find.
I waited.
I waited for longer, but he didn’t say a word. I lifted my head and peeked up at him through my eyelashes. He was standing completely still, watching me. Waiting.
He waited, I waited, and neither one of us moved as we locked gazes and I held my breath. Several seconds later, he began to move toward me, his large, heavy shoes moving soundlessly against the plush carpet. I felt my body tremble and I saw my hands shake as they rose to my chest, ready to push him away if
The group stared at me for a few moments, before Donny broke the silence with a laugh.
“You sure do have a lot of non-boyfriends,” he said, giving me a saucy wink.
Wanna join the club? I thought, but merely blushed and looked away…just in time to see the secretive laughter flash in Briar’s eyes.
seven
Candy showed up the next day and pestered me with questions, a little put out that she’d heard from Briar I’d actually gone to the uni club without her…when she’d been trying to get me to go all year. Thankfully, Mason had heard that she was back and swooped in to rescue me before she could get too carried away. Unfortunately, that also meant I was left wandering around campus for the next few hours whilst they used the room.
Classes started up again on the Monday, and I found myself run ragged as I hurried to purchase my new text books, find all my new classrooms and then endure the forty minutes of muscle torture inflicted on me by Alec. Yep, Alec and Briar’s determination to fatten me up hadn’t eased in the slightest. Well, okay, to be fair, they’d stopped piling my plate with a ridiculous amount of food. The day was long and I was relieved to escape to my room after dinner.
I collapsed on my bed, marvelling again at how lucky I was to have landed a free ride to a university that provided its students with plush, king-sized single beds. Yeah, okay, so I had to share this stylish, comfortable room with a messy party-animal that often brought her boyfriend back, but it was still pretty damn decent. Next year I'd be able to upgrade to a single room. I sighed with pleasure, imagining my own special haven. Growing up with so many siblings made me treasure privacy, quiet and solitude.
I glanced over to the other side of the room where Candy was dancing around in woolly pjs and playboy bunny slippers to a song I couldn't quite make out from the earphones she was using. It seemed someone had had a good first day back! I groaned. My first day of our second semester had been extremely tiring and all I wanted to do was go to sleep. Well, what I really wanted was to be back in Sydney with Briar's family-but I guess sleep would just have to do.
A firm knock sounded at the door, but Candy didn't seem to hear it. It's probably just Mason, I thought with a grimace. I got up and slowly opened the door, hoping it wasn't Mason and that I wouldn't have to find somewhere else to sleep. I froze, staring up at the unexpected guest in bewilderment. Stone stood in the doorway, propped against the frame, his leaning stance not doing anything to disguise his large size. His hard, stone-grey eyes swept over my warm, fluffy, yellow pjs, then shot up to stare at Candy. Candy turned mid-dance and froze. She grinned at him and whipped out her earphones.
With a slight movement of his head and the narrowing of his gaze, Candy read the command in his eyes: Get out. She winked at me and hurriedly moved past him on her way out the door. His gaze moved to me and he slowly stepped over the threshold, shutting the door behind him. I averted my stare, feigning an interest in the geometric patterns on the carpet. I could hear the rhythm of my pulse pounding in my ears, feel the blood rushing through my veins as I struggled to silence my harried breathing. What was he doing here? What did he want with me? I wanted to dare a glance up into those dominating, powerful eyes- but feared the command I'd find.
I waited.
I waited for longer, but he didn’t say a word. I lifted my head and peeked up at him through my eyelashes. He was standing completely still, watching me. Waiting.
He waited, I waited, and neither one of us moved as we locked gazes and I held my breath. Several seconds later, he began to move toward me, his large, heavy shoes moving soundlessly against the plush carpet. I felt my body tremble and I saw my hands shake as they rose to my chest, ready to push him away if
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