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“So you’re putting up with Gold Digger Barbie because your dad wants you to?” Jace expertly flips the blade around his hand in another blur of gleaming silver and the soft click of metal on metal.

“Essentially.” I roll my neck to try and get some of the lingering tension out. “And having a girlfriend keeps the rest of the social climbers away. Stick with the devil you know and all that.”

Jax leans back and crosses his arms over his chest. “Speaking of social climbers, when is little Fefe showing up?”

“Who the fuck knows,” I grumble, my bad mood intensifying.

“I still can’t believe they’re making you room with him.” Jace shakes his head and absently tosses his knife in the air. “Or why,” he adds as he catches it in his other hand and starts flipping it around his knuckles as easily as he did with his dominant hand.

“It’s school policy,” I grumble. “I had no idea having to room with your stepbrother after his family kicks it is in the rules, but apparently it is.”

“Can’t you just ask your dad to tell them to fuck off with their rules?” Jace asked. “It’s not like we don’t have any pull around here. Use your status as a founding legacy and get rid of him.”

“I tried, but Jasmine convinced him this is a good thing.” I can’t keep the bitterness out of my voice. “And you know how he is. He’s all about protecting our image, so he’s parroting her bullshit about it bringing us closer together when he really just doesn’t want to show any family division or weakness.”

Jace snorts out a laugh. “The only thing this arrangement will bring you closer to is a felony.”

“Mood,” I agree.

A soft knock draws my attention from the twins. Heaving a sigh, I slide my gaze to the large wooden door. “Who is it?”

“It’s me,” a muffled voice says from the other side.

I let my head fall back against the back of the settee. “Of fucking course he shows up now.”

“Are you going to let me in?”

“It’s unlocked.”

The door swings open and Felix steps inside.

“Did you forget how to open a door?” I ask as he shifts the duffle bag on his shoulder and closes the door behind him.

“I figured I’d be polite and ask to come in,” he says, his expression completely blank. “Don’t worry. They gave me a key, so that’s the last time you’ll have to inconvenience yourself by shouting across the room.”

“You’ve been here for less than ten seconds, and you’re already pissing me off.” I shift so I’m sitting with both feet planted on the floor and my forearms on my thighs. “Trust me when I say today is not the day.”

“Noted.” He looks around my room, his eyes landing on the empty bed across from mine.

“Are you waiting for an engraved invitation?” I ask Felix, my irritation at his very presence in my room clear in my voice. “Get your ass in here and stop hovering like a creep.”

He slides his gaze back to mine. “I see you still have that sunny disposition you’re known for.”

Anger flows through me like a living thing, raising my hackles until my entire body is taut, like a snake coiled and ready to strike its prey. Felix has been here for less than a minute, and I already want to rip him in half. How the fuck am I supposed to spend the rest of the year as his roommate and not kill him?

Felix walks over to the empty bed and tosses his duffle bag on it like he doesn’t have a care in the world.

My stepbrother is one of the most annoying people I’ve ever met, and he’s also one of the fakest.

He might have fooled our parents and professors and everyone else into believing he’s as perfect as he pretends to be, but I’ve seen the real him under his carefully curated facade.

Everything from his preppy-boy wardrobe to his overly polite manners is as fake as a three-dollar bill. So is the mask of indifference he always wears.

Felix might be a master at hiding his emotions and pretending he doesn’t have any, but I know it’s only a matter of time before his persona cracks and his true nature comes out for everyone to see.

Without meaning to, I rake my gaze over his frame, taking in his loose sweats and baggy hoodie. His hair is a mess, and he’s wearing mismatched socks and slides. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen him dressed down like this. It makes him look more like a typical student and less like the buttoned-up Poindexter I’m used to.

“Let’s go,” Jax says, tearing my attention away from my stepbrother. “We’ve got business to take care of.”

“Yeah.” I stand and toss Felix a flat look. “Don’t even think about touching my stuff, or I’ll end you.”

He blinks at me, his face the picture of innocence. “How will you know if I think about it? Are you clairvoyant? Quick, what number am I thinking about?”

“Watch it, you little—”

Jax grabs my arm and tugs me toward the door. “Ignore him. We don’t have time to dispose of a body right now.”

I let Jax pull me out of the room.

Felix’s beaming smile is the last thing I see before Jace slams the door closed. 

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What can I say about myself? It’s kind of like being the new kid in school and being asked to tell everyone a bit about yourself. Anyone else forget everything they’ve ever liked, thought of, and even their name in those moments?

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I currently live on Canada’s east coast with my kiddo and my cats. I have a shoe collecting addiction, and I enjoy taking long walks, discussions with friends, and reading anything and everything I can get my hands on.

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