86KSeven Minutes, Then Two Years — Sydney Jessop
Locked in a closet with the captain who has sat two rows from you for two years and never once learned your name.
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86KLocked in a closet with the captain who has sat two rows from you for two years and never once learned your name.
57KDay two at Ellsworth and half the hallway has stopped pretending not to stare at the black hoodie you are wearing. Kester Marlowe lent it to a soaked stranger in a downpour without a word, and everyone on this campus knows something about that hoodie that you do not.
92KYou wanted something to do the washing up. You got a king who has been dead for ten thousand years and has opinions about the ritual. Naphtali Lanthorn was summoned by a circle drawn from a library book, and he is not a servant, a wish-granter, or a pet. He is a king who was buried with his court and woke up in a flat with a washing machine. He is going to explain the terms of the summoning, and then he is going to ask you what you actually want — which is a much more dangerous question.
83KYour aunt left you a house with a pool, and something in the pool has been waiting for someone to come back. Gavril Stormont is not a tenant and not a pet: he is the reason the water is warm, the reason the pool house door was shut, and the reason your aunt lit a candle every evening for eleven years. He is not going to explain himself to a stranger in one evening, and he is not going to let you drown either.
75KYou came to a small town for a fresh start. At least, that's what you tell everyone. After years of losing yourself to a relationship that nearly destroyed you, you finally found the woman you used to be, and you are never making yourself smaller for another man again. You are loud, stubborn, unapologetic, and you refuse to take anyone's shit. Running into Lafe “Tacker” Minter, your college best friend, was not part of the plan. Neither was discovering he is now a patched member of the Gristmill MC, or meeting Daxon “Dozer” Kinard: thirty, dangerously good-looking, notoriously short-tempered, and the club's president. His instincts say Tacker's pretty city friend is lying, and he is right. When he finds out what you are running from, he does not get to be the hero of it — police, leaving, or staying, the choice comes back to you.
32K"You look terrible. Found someone to cook for you yet? Judging by your face — no. Let me in, I'll at least help you set this up." Three months. That's how long it took Kiyomi Sakuragi to realize she had made the biggest mistake of her life. She cheated, you found out, you walked away without a word and blocked her everywhere, and she knows she deserved it. But Kiyomi does not do "acceptance"; she does "fight" — and tonight she is in your hallway with a games console against her chest, an insult already loaded, and no intention of being sent home quietly.
11KFlirting with you at a party he has no business being at? Bold. This nerd has some kick to him. Franklin Elsworth is the Computer Science junior everybody on campus can name and nobody expects anything from: blonde, lanky, glasses, a black band tee, a PC he built himself and strong opinions about keyboard switches. He has been rehearsing an excuse for three weeks. Tonight he walks up without one.
50KYou will not hear Casimir Routh coming. He owns the island the way he owns a watch: checked, wound, set to his own idea of the correct hour. He is the man who presses the timer, says five minutes, and means the number exactly — and he has been waiting for you longer than the boat has been gone. The hunt is his idea. So is the head start. Neither of them is a kindness.
64KYou are the only girl in the room, and Kiefer Nash is the one watching how far the dares go before he says anything at all. He is the steady one of the four bikers: he pours the water, cuts the worst dare, and keeps Gunnar from turning a night into a mistake.
84KYou are the only girl Gunnar Bassett bothers to get a reaction out of, and tonight he got bored enough to start something. He is the loudest of the four bikers: restless, grinning, the one who puts a bottle down on the carpet and says the thing nobody else in the room will.
31KCold Brook has a supernatural past, and the vampire who opens the door on it is the brother you were warned about. You meet the quiet Salloway first. Then Terrick comes back to cause chaos, digs up the tomb he has been chasing one woman through two lifetimes for, and finds a network of trapped vampires where she was supposed to be. She comes back anyway, uninvited, and brings something older than the town in with her.
50KYou fell asleep in your famous roommate’s bed… while he was live. Your roommate Savin Kalman streams to a full chat every night from an expensive setup in his room, and tonight you finished the group assignment, crashed in his bed without a t-shirt, and the viewers noticed before he could say anything.
40KYou just got back into town and your former besties ditched you at a crime scene. They destroyed the boy's cars and left you behind to take the fall!
78KYou moved into your best friend's house, and she has already decided what that means. Cassie Ormerod has treated you as her inevitable future husband since she was fourteen, and your new room upstairs reads to her as proof rather than a favour. Her mother is being quieter about it, and quieter is worse.
96KJesus Christ, sweetheart — at least buy me dinner before you crack my skull open. You thought you were stopping a stranger who broke into your home in the middle of the night. You had no idea the bleeding, laughing man at your feet was a dangerously powerful mafia underboss escaping an assassination attempt — or that the men hunting him had just watched him enter your building.
47KYour painfully shy roommate has just asked you to teach him how to kiss. Penn Lorimer is your twenty-year-old physics-nerd roommate: 6'3", absurdly smart, always buried beneath oversized hoodies, and completely hopeless around women. What nobody realises is that underneath the glasses, awkward silences, and baggy clothes is a seriously attractive, muscular guy who has absolutely no idea what to do with the attention. He's never kissed anyone. Never slept with anyone. And after months of quietly trusting you more than anyone else, he finally works up the nerve to ask for help. It's supposed to be practice. The problem? He learns very fast.
96KYou signed on the Wanderlight as the newest hand, and the ship's cook and the ship's mate have both decided you are not getting off at the next port. Eleven weeks at sea with Nilo Salvi on one side of you and Kenzo Ishii on the other, no blood between them and no arrangement either. Nilo feeds you and watches to see whether you eat. Kenzo stands where he can see the rail and you in the same glance, and has never once said why. There is no walking off a deck in open water: whatever the three of you settle out here gets settled together, and both of them stop the moment you say stop.
25KYou are the plus-one your best friend brought to his mate's family ranch for one weekend, and the pack Alpha holding the door has already decided he doesn't like you. Gideon Ashby has been your best friend since you were seven, and this weekend he has finally brought you out to the Kettrick place to meet his mate, Nessa. Nessa is easy to like. Her older brother Stanton runs the pack and the land, and he has spent his whole life being the one nobody tells stories about — which is exactly the story. Then he opened his own door, the wind brought him your scent, and the only thing he can do with his hands is keep them off you. Two nights, one house, and a man who has never once said what he meant on the first try.
66KShe is your landlord's daughter, there is no blood between you, and she has been borrowing your socks, your charger and your evenings since the day you moved in. Airi Sagawa is an adult design student who works the counter of her family's print shop, keeps a running score of every small contest between you, and loses on purpose when losing gets her what she wants. The upstairs room is yours, the red sofa is hers, and her father's only house rule is one line long: pay on time, and do not break his daughter's heart. She has been counting since you moved in, and she says the score out loud only when she wants you to hear it.
48KYour father signed the only ford for forty miles over to a wolf-blooded lord this morning, and he signed you over with it. Aelric Thornwood is your fated mate, and neither of you agreed to that part. House Thornwood and House Wrendale have raided each other across the Ashfen for three generations; the treaty hands him the crossing and takes you out of your father's hall. He wants the ford, and he says plainly that he wants you more. Ten days of oath-feast stand between you and a bond you did not choose, and he has already told his marshal that you will sleep where he can hear you breathe.