The American Roommate Experiment: A Novel (The Love Deception Series Book 2)

“Don’t make me fight you over this, Lucas Martín. I will win.” It was my turn to smile. “Don’t threaten me with a good time, Rosalyn Graham.”

Keep it together, I told myself. Think unsexy things. Like trash cans. Or… that time Taco had diarrhea.

“Want me like I want you. Because these glimpses of what we could be are killing me, Lucas. That’s why I’m crying, because I’m frustrated, devastated, by the fact that I can’t have you. That I want you and I can’t have you.”

“You’re lying. You’re crying and it’s breaking my heart,” he said in a desperate voice. “Rosie, preciosa.” He moved closer, as if he couldn’t help himself. “Tell me what to do to stop this.” I tried to keep it in. Not to let it out, but that Rosie, that preciosa, did me in. And everything just… escaped. “Want me,” I said, and God, how desperate it

Lucas shrugged. “Well, I hope Sebastian Stong doesn’t mind bumping into stalkers.”

Lina clapped her hands under her chin. “I’m still hoping for Sebastian Stan.” Aaron mumbled something unintelligible under his breath. I chuckled. “Oh, I wouldn’t mind that. Not at all.” Lucas shifted somewhere to my right, and when I looked at him, he was frowning. “Who is that? This… Sebastian Spoon?”

It was the determination in his gaze that pushed me forward. The way he looked at me like I’d be doing something for him if I gave him this one thing.

That was why I looked at him straight in the eye when I said, “I’d never hurt her. I could never do that.” Aaron’s lips tipped up in a surprisingly bright smile. “I know.”

“You deserve so much better than any of that. Whether it’s an experiment or not, you deserve more.”