Play Maker (Wild Card Book 4) by Nikki Hall

Author:Nikki Hall [Hall, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

16

I knew I was tempting fate the second I chose to brave the kitchen in my sleep shirt and undies. Earlier in the day, Adam had stalked me all the way to the border of my room, but I’d managed to scrape together enough wits to leave him in the hallway instead of inviting him inside.

Then I’d hidden like the coward I apparently was. So much for not hiding from adversity.

When I came out to scrounge for dinner, I found a brand-new rain showerhead sitting on the counter decorated with a big purple bow. My heart lurched—not a reaction I usually got from plumbing equipment—and my resistance crumbled.

Thank goodness Adam hadn’t been in the room. I’d grabbed the present and a box of Cheez-Its before retreating again. They’d lasted me until after midnight, but I needed real food.

The cold tile felt good under my bare feet while the rest of me overheated. Stress always made me hot. With an upcoming project and the approaching deadline of my mom’s first wedding event, for which I was still dateless, pressure threatened to crush me.

I’d spent the evening trying to study instead of fantasizing about Adam, and I only put myself at a forty-seven percent success rate. The living room was dark, and the kitchen was lit only by the stove light. Footballs players trained a lot, so my roommates tended to go to bed early unless Adam pushed them to go out. Even so, it wasn’t early.

The hem of my vintage Rainbow Brite shirt brushed my thighs, but I didn’t care if one of them caught me. Shaw and RJ didn’t make me nervous like they had at the beginning. They were what I thought it might be like if I had siblings. Real siblings, not the pervy version Shad insisted on manifesting.

Cooking anything seemed like too much work to my tired brain, but for once, the fridge was full of healthy food I hadn’t bought. Healthy food that required some kind of preparation unless I planned to eat raw carrots. Screw the veggies—I wanted carbs. Toast would have to do.

This was my life now. Toast at midnight because I was too much of a coward to face my roommate. At least I was an equal opportunity coward—I’d been avoiding Eva too. Chloe talked to her regularly, and the lack of any news meant nothing much had changed on her end. A lot had changed on mine.

I sighed and rested my forearms on the counter, waiting for my meal to pop up. Mom had texted earlier to make sure I remembered her engagement luncheon was next week. I remembered. I’d simply planned to ignore it until I had a solid strategy for finding a date.

My grand plan of having Adam teach me to be fun and sexy was backfiring spectacularly. He nailed the fun and sexy part, but every time I tried to mimic him, I either felt like an obvious fraud or I fell headfirst under Adam’s spell.

Admittedly, he hadn’t been as much of a player as I expected.

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