ROOMIES (Strangers-To-Lovers Romance Novel) by Bella Grant

Author:Bella Grant [Grant, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-08T18:30:00+00:00

24

Liam

“For God’s sake, Liam, you and your girlfriend need to work out your problems!”

A disgruntled Shawn shoved the brown paper envelope in my hand and slammed his door. I didn’t take offence since I probably would have done the same thing, given the circumstances. I’d convinced him to keep the draft for me against his wishes.

“It’s time you tell her about the studio time,” he’d argued. “You know this is what she wants for you, so why would you hide it from her? You’re about to get a contract, for God’s sake! Tell her, man!”

“Not yet,” I’d countered. “I want it to be done and for it to be certain before I tell her. I don’t want to get her hopes up, raise her expectations, and then nothing happens.”

“You have the draft of a contract to look over! What is clearer than that?”

I’d convinced him to keep the papers, not believing our apartment was a safe place to keep them. If they were there, Emily would surely find them since everything of ours was mixed together. We barely had any privacy from each other, not that we minded.

After our argument, I decided it was probably best I let her know about the booked studio sessions, the demo tracks, and sending them to different record labels. I had surprised myself by not quitting at the first rejection and the second. I’d sent to seven different record labels before I received a tentative call back, which was responsible for the contract I’d been given to read through—preferably with an attorney—before I agreed to sign on with the label. It wasn’t a huge record label, but it was a start for exposure.

It had been difficult to complete all I had without Emily finding out. She’d been too wrapped up, for the moment, in studying for her mid-term exams to notice my disappearance. I’d taken a week of my vacation, and she didn’t know. I left the house at the same hours as I did when I worked, and she never suspected a thing. Naturally, I didn’t like lying to her, but I had every intention of coming clean once I got my signature and that of the record label on the dotted line.

I wanted to tell her earlier but thought that without the proof, she would probably think I was making stuff up to get her to shut up. Tonight, I would tell her the truth, and hopefully, she would understand why I had kept it from her. I suspected she would be more pleased than mad, and if she was the latter, she was never upset for long.

It was late when I got to the apartment, almost midnight. I hoped she wasn’t sleeping, which was a high possibility. She had the habit of waiting up for me when I was out late, while she pretended she wasn’t doing anything but studying.

I grinned when I entered the apartment with the brown envelope clutched in one hand. Light glared from inside, a sign that she was still up.

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