Hard Facts: A New Adult College Romance (Main Desire Book 3) by Penny Clarke

Author:Penny Clarke [Clarke, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2021-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

16

Summer

“You gave him a key.” Liz pulls me into her room after our weekly ABB meeting.

I shove aside a mess of sheet music and textbooks to sit on her bed. When I come across a cylindrical, wooden item with a rather blunt end, I hold it up. “Is this an instrument or a dildo?”

“It’s a kaval.”

“Doesn’t answer my question.”

She snatches it from my hand and throws it in her nightstand drawer. Strange location for an instrument.

“A key.”

“Yes. You’re right. I gave him a key.” With a lovelorn sigh, I place both hands on my chest. “I let Jesus into my heart. And I vow, on my own oddly shaped sex toys—” I make a show of crossing my legs. “That these shall open for no other man, ever again.”

“Summer,” Liz drops next to me. “Are you sure you’re not letting yourself get carried away with this whole pretend boyfriend thing? Listen, you’re old news around the house now. Why not pull back a bit? Let it fizzle out, with none the wiser. How are your grades?”

Getting better. I can reasonably follow along when Gray rambles on about hypothesis testing.

Still…

“Not good enough for Nolan,” I tell her. He’d called the other day, to deliver that statement himself. I’m almost certain now that he has a direct line to my professors, in order to check.

To reassure my little sis, though, I flip a tangle of curls off her shoulder and give her a confident look. “We’re getting there, though. Stop worrying about it so much.”

“But a key to your apartment, Summer. I just about had a heart attack when I walked in yesterday, and there he was, on the couch—”

“Big fucking deal. It’s just a key. I gave you one, too. My giving it to Grayson was a matter of convenience, it doesn’t have any special meaning.” She opens her mouth to protest, but I halt her. “Liz, you know me. I can handle myself with men. Especially a nerd like Grayson Rowe. The plan’s working, see. So relax.”

She’s torn between wanting to accept it or press her luck debating with me. I roll my eyes. Laying on the bed, I prop my head in one hand and rustle her homework with the other. “How’s the independent study? What are you learning—Okay, that is definitely a dildo.”

Blushing, she takes the long, phallic object I’d uncovered from under the sheet music and hides it in a clarinet case on her desk.

“Band camp taught you a lot of weird tricks, didn’t it?”

“More like being the preacher’s daughter.”

“But you do have band camp stories. At least one, right?”

With a mischievous smile, she tells me three. After giggling over those, we chat for a bit before I have to go.

“By the way,” she says as I rummage through my purse for the avocado hair mask I’d brought her. “I thought Kaylyn was in charge of finding a florist for the homecoming formal.”

“Yeah, um, I’m just helping her out,” I say into the depths of my purse, before brandishing a jar.

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