Alphahole (Alphahole Roommates 1)

“Tomorrow night. I’m running home now, packing and heading to the airport.”

“Knock ‘em dead, Hot Sauce.”

“Call you when I land. Come into my office for a second so I can say bye properly.”

He backs up. I spin my chair around and follow him in. He drops all his blinds.

“This is so obvious,” I grumble. It’s definitely spreading around the office that we’re an item.

His left eyebrow goes up. “Would you rather I kiss you breathless while groping you with the blinds up?”

“Point taken.”

He comes to me and pins me against the door. He’s devouring my mouth with his. My fingers are in his hair. He smells amazing. He feels amazing.

“See you tomorrow,” I whisper against his lips.

“Yep. You will.” He squeezes my butt and then backs up so I’m no longer blocking the door. “Back to work you go. Be a good girl while I’m gone.”

I smile. “I will.”

He gives me a heated look.

I back out of his office and head back to my cube. Ally pops up.

“Dinner and a movie tonight?”

“Yeah, sounds good.”

***

Ally told me her date with Jude was a big fat disappointment. Half way through dinner on Saturday, he had some sort of emergency and had to run out. He said he’d call her. He sent an apology text on Sunday, but she hadn’t heard from him since.

I told her what I knew about Meryl and Austin and she thinks on it and tells me there were a few clandestine-like phone calls from home. Meryl had commented there was a guy who was serious about her, but she didn’t know if she was serious about that guy. We gathered that was weighing on her as she began things with Austin.

“We should plot to get her back,” Ally says, as we’re walking toward our apartment building.

“Hm…” I muse.

It’s after ten o’clock and I’m carrying my leftover popcorn. It’s a beautiful night and it’s great to hang out with a girlfriend after being so hot and heavy with Aiden these past few days. I’m not really looking forward to sleeping alone, though. Maybe I’ll sleep in his bed, instead of mine. Maybe I’ll tell him I’m in his bed, naked, when he phones me so that we can have some phone sex.

Ally switches topics and starts talking about how possessive Aiden is.

“Did you see him growl at Bill the other day? Bill was looking at your ass and Aiden actually growled at him. I thought Bill was gonna piss his pants.”

I shake my head and roll my eyes.

A figure steps out of the shadows beside our building entrance. It’s a girl with a hoodie on, long dark hair flowing out of either side of the hood. As she gets closers, her eyes are on me. Her face looks bruised. Her lip is fat.

“Are you okay?” I ask.

Ally grabs my arm and jerks me back.

Yeah, maybe not a great idea to get so close to someone lurking in the shadows like that.

“You’re Carly,” the girl says.

I jerk back further. Who is this?