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

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?”

He was quiet for a few seconds. Then he said, “Do you think you can give me one, though? Maybe I’m the one who needs it.”

“Rosalyn Graham,” Lucas said, throwing the fridge open. “Your lack of enthusiasm is appalling.”

“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.”

To those waiting on love, be patient. Love is a total drama queen. It’s just waiting to make an entrance.

“Hey, Rosie?” he called before crossing the threshold. “It’s been great finally meeting Lina’s best friend.” Finally. He’d said finally.

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.”

“He didn’t. He never tells me anything anymore.” I reached for my napkin, just to occupy my hands with something. “And that’s the whole problem. I just… don’t know what’s up with him. It’s as if I no longer know him, like he doesn’t want me in his life anymore.” I shook my head, squeezing the cloth between my fingers. “And that makes me incredibly

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.