AllFreeNovel
Share Us
The way his dark eyes trailed over my face…I couldn’t stop gazing up at him.
How pretty.
“You’re so beautiful,” I murmured.
Adam froze, still holding the washcloth. His eyebrows furrowed. “What did you just say?”
“You’re so beautiful,” I repeated with a smile. “You’re a very beautiful man. I think about it all the time.”
“Piper, I—” He shook his head. “You’re drunk.”
“Not drunk.”
“Yeah, you are. You’re talking batshit crazy.”
“Oh. Maybe I am drunk?” I frowned and leaned back against the couch. “But you’re still beautiful.”
There weren’t a lot of times when I saw Adam Russell taken aback but that was one of them. He stared at me with the most incredulous look on my face. Like I just spoke a dead language out of the blue. He swallowed. And then he said my name, just a breeze between his lips, before a knock echoed on the door.
67
Adam
Not Too Far
The moment I heard the voices outside the door, I cursed under my breath. Our friends. The group of people who could never keep their goddamn mouths shut if someone paid them. Last semester, Ryan and Kassie had been in a fake relationship, and we constantly joked about it because nobody in my circle could keep anything fucking quiet.
The more people know about Piper…somebody’s going to talk.
“Ooo.” Piper tried to stand up. “I want to see everybody!”
“No, you don’t.” I pushed her back down with a firm hand and grabbed her clipboard off the table. Goddamn. Why was the font size two? My head swam trying to read everything, and I strode over to the door, cracking it open half an inch.
Ryan put his hand on the door and tried to open it, but I made sure it didn’t budge.
“Sorry, Piper has to get to her rounds,” I said, holding up the clipboard. “Turns out it was only one event.”
Kassie leaned against Ryan. “So…we get the room cleaned up, and she does her rounds?”
Shit.
“Nope.” I shook my head. “I got it. I’m helping her out with that.”
They gave each other short looks like I wasn’t right there. I needed some reason to get them out of here and a quick one. I squeezed my eyes shut, wracking my brain. Why would Piper be out of commission for the rest of the night?
“She’s…uh…having…Gray Sweatpants over,” I said, trying not to grind my teeth to dust. “The night’s called off.”
Fuck me.
Zariah’s eyes shot open. “Oh my god. Piper! Good for you!”
“Thank you!” Piper slurred from inside the room, and I closed the door even further, keeping it just a sliver open.
“Alright then…I’m going to be saying goodbye…” I said slowly, pushing the door even further.
“You’re not coming with us?” Ryan frowned.
“Lots of…studying to do…” I finished, and with a click, the door shut to all the interrogations.
