Page 65 of Only Fate

He groans, nudging my hips forward and curling his hand around my hips.

“Yes, girl! Get it!” a girl slurs out.

Adrian’s lips break free from mine as a group walking down the road passes us.

“Yeah, man,” a guy with them says, giving Adrian a thumbs-up.

Another makes a thrusting motion with his hips.

Mood ruined by drunk coeds.

Adrian blocks me from their view, and his phone rings.

He eases it from his pocket, holding it up to show me the screen. “River.”

“Yeah,” he says after answering and nods as he listens. “We ran to my car to get water. Cool. Meet you in five.”

He ends the call, shoving the phone back into his pocket, and brushes a strand of hair away from my face. “Meet me later?”

There’s no hesitation this time when I say, “Okay.”

“You know, when I left for college, my parents gave me rules,” Amelia says, lying on her stomach in the hotel room bed. “One of them was to never drink anything given to you at a frat party.”

“Same.” Ava plops down next to her, and our snacks on the bed spill. “Like they expected me to bring a bottle of vodka in my purse.”

I snatch a few M&M’s and pop them into my mouth. “Or they just didn’t want you going to college parties.”

Tonight was my first college party. When I’d first moved into my dorm, my roommate had invited me everywhere. After a month of declines, she started telling everyone I stayed in all night, talking to my secret boyfriend on the phone. She and River have a lot in common, it seems.

Amelia groans and tosses her phone onto the floor. “Jax and Christopher are hanging out tonight.”

Callie fluffs her pillow. “When don’t they hang out?”

“Jax will probably talk shit about me going to a frat party in an attempt to make Chris question our relationship,” Amelia continues, chewing on her bright pink nail. “I swear, that boy wants us to be miserable.”

“He doesn’t want you to be miserable.” I lean off the bed upside down and collect her phone before one of us steps on it. “He wants you to be his.”

Amelia smiles while I hand over her phone. “Jax doesn’t want hisbest friend’s girl. That’s against allbro coderules.”

“There are no rules when it comes to love,” Ava argues.

Amelia glares at her, then me, and then Callie, like each of us needs to know she dislikes Ava’s comment. “Hand me those Funyuns, and you crazies shut your mouths.”

Adrian left after we met up with River, and River took us to a local pizzeria to eat.

It takes us ten minutes to decide on a movie—Legally Blonde, of course. I wait until the others are asleep before texting Adrian.

Me: Ready whenever you are.

My phone vibrates seconds later.

Adrian: Be there in 5.

I double-check the girls are asleep, swipe the key card from the nightstand, and tiptoe out of the room. The clerk peers up from the reception desk as I leave.

Adrian waits for me at the entrance. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he’d been hanging out in his car until I texted.

My nerves build with each step I take.

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