No One's Hero (Chadwell Hearts) by Walker Kelly

Author:Walker, Kelly [Walker, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, opposites attract, new adult, college, Standalone
Publisher: Kelly Walker
Published: 2014-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

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Lexi

It’s as if all my limbs are filled with lead when an ungodly noise wakes me from a dead sleep a mere three hours after crawling into bed exhausted.

What. The. Fuck? My roommate from hell has flipped on the lights and has her laptop playing some weird sound that I think is supposed to be a song, but sounds like a dying cat attempting to rap about the periodic table.

A quick glance at my alarm clock reveals it’s only four-thirty in the morning. I lift my head a few inches from the pillow, gawking at her. She’s singing along now, and seems completely oblivious to the fact that others are trying to sleep. On the floor, Kevin is just sitting up when I launch a pillow across the room, smacking Stephanie in the back of the head.

Her eyes are wide with indignation when she whips her head around, her lips quickly pulling together into a self-satisfied smirk. “Oh, I’m sorry, did I wake you?”

“No. Kevin and I were having a contest to see which of us could keep our eyes closed the longest. Did you happen to see who won?” It’s not even five am, of course I’m sleeping, and she damn well knows it.

“I just figured since you had no problem staying out so late, waking me up when you came in, you wouldn’t mind if I got a head start on my studying, right?”

Seriously? Kevin and I were back and in bed—separately—by ten. I’m ready to strangle her, but judging by the look on Kevin’s face I won’t have to. If I’d ever taken the time to imagine what a bear would look like if suddenly awoken from hibernation, I think it would have been a close resemblance. “Stephanie,” he says through gritted teeth. “You have five seconds to turn that off and be quiet, or tomorrow, I’ll send a copy of your quiz from yesterday to your parent’s house. You know, the one you got a ‘B’ on?”

Stephanie’s cheeks flush, and for a moment, I think she looks almost afraid. Then her gaze hardens. “You wouldn’t.”

Kevin lays back down and covers up. “Four. Three—”

“Okay! Fine!”

The awful song quiets, and my ears throw a mini party of relief.

“The light too,” Kevin says as I settle back into my mattress and squeeze my eyes closed. Maybe having a bodyguard has its perks.

I swear I’ve only just fallen back to sleep when my own alarm goes off at six. Kevin scoots off his blow-up mattress, and it’s sickening how awake and together he looks, as if he’s fully rested. Maybe he is, but I know I’m freaking not. The only bright spot this morning is that Stephanie is blessedly absent, although her laptop is sitting open on her desk, so she probably hasn’t gone far. I can’t help shaking my head at the screensaver: Perfect is the only possibility. I wonder if her head will explode when she learns the truth: Perfect is a pipedream.

My muscles move like they’re covered in sludge as I lace up my new boots.

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