Page 15 of Playing for Keeps


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The drunk girl hiccuped. "Goodnight."

I chuckled but grabbed the drunk girl’s shoulder. She spun back, and I nodded to the handcuffs. "Where are the keys?"

"Keys?"

Oh…shit. There was no way. The champagne hit me, and I couldn’t handle the squirrel I was tethered to. This was bad. Well, not fucking terrible, but it certainly didn’t look good and eventually I did want to pass out after the grueling football game.

"What do we do?!" Piper yanked at the handcuff again and I almost toppled into her.

"Stop doing that. That’s a good start."

She shook her head wildly. "You’re no help!"

"Just give me a second." I glanced around the kitchen. "Where’s my phone?"

"Do we use a knife?"

I snorted. "Maybe in a Stephen King movie."

"I don’t hear you coming up with suggestions!"

With a sinking feeling, I spotted my phone, cracked on the floor. Damn. Not again. "This isn’t bad. Stop panicking."

"What?"

It took me a moment to realize my words slurred together. Shit. How many glasses of champagne did I pound down? The bottle looked empty, but that couldn’t be. Half of that had to be dripping off the people who left the party or something.

As hard as I tried to figure it out, it was even harder walking with Piper, dragging me off to the living room. I took a long look at my RA. She was trying to get everything together. The soft blonde hair in loose braids, her lips parted while she lost her shit, and the hint of her curves in the sea animal pajamas. The whole package.

"Man." I shook my head. "Your pajamas are hot."

"What?" Her eyebrows knitted together.

"Your pajamas—are—" My brain rewired for the answer. "Ice-cold, pretty baby, ice princess."

"What? Adam, I can’t understand a word you’re—"

A head peeked in through the room. "Uh, RA?"

It wasn’t one of the party guests. Just some lanky guy from the swim team who lived down the hall. His eyes widened when he took in the disaster. The completely trashed room after a Birchwood Bowl rager with his hot RA and a linebacker handcuffed together.

He shook his head. "RA, did you see this?"

Piper straightened up and tried to hide the handcuff. "See what?"

That was when I noticed the water creeping in from the hallway.

7

Piper

Sixteen Thousand Dollars In Plumbing Damages

It wasn’t even week two of being a Marrs University resident assistant, and I was already pulled into a preliminary behavioral hearing. Already asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Because of him.

None of this was working out how I thought it would. In a professional blouse and slacks, I hunkered down in my chair. Maybe if I was the size of a mouse, nobody else could see me.

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