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8. Horny Lab Partners

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last update publish date: 2025-09-05 19:59:45

ELLIE

There should be a law against looking good on a Monday morning.

I mean seriously, who the hell rolls into campus looking like he just stepped off the cover of a Calvin Klein ad? His sleeves were rolled up, his smirk was magnetic, and the worst part was that he wasn't even trying. Beck just somehow existed, and every woman in the vicinity started to swoon at the sight of him.

Why on earth did I have to set my sights on him of all people? I could have gone with Isaac Thatcher, the geek fro
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  • A Deal With The College Playboy   20. First Game Of The Season

    ELLIESolimar wouldn’t stop barraging me with questions from the moment I arrived on campus, and I kept ignoring her because I didn’t want to give her anything to latch onto. And yet, somehow, she refused to let things go. "I'm just saying," Solimar said, climbing the bleacher steps with her popcorn tucked under her arm and her scarf trailing behind her like a cape, "that a man does not carry your bag across the entire quad for no reason.""He was being neighbourly," I said."You said that last time and I didn't believe it then either," she said, dropping into a seat in the middle section where we had a decent view of the whole field. "Ellie, Beck Ryder was carrying your bag. That doesn’t happen for no reason.""Can we just watch the game please?" I said, sitting beside her."The game hasn't started yet," she said, gesturing at the empty field. "We have time. Tell me what's going on between you two.""There's nothing to tell.""Your face says otherwise.""My face says I want popcorn,

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   19. Sex In The Living Room

    ELLIEI'd been sitting on my bed for forty minutes staring at the same spot on the wall, which was a completely normal and healthy thing to do on a Monday afternoon.The spot was just above my desk, where the paint had this tiny scuff mark from the time I'd thrown a textbook at the wall in freshman year after failing my first anatomy quiz. It had been there ever since, and I'd never bothered to paint over it because it felt like evidence of something. Proof that I'd been frustrated and alive and had bad days before, and had gotten through them anyway.Right now I was using it as a focal point so I didn't have to think about Salma's arm through Beck's, or the way I'd cried on the bus like a complete idiot, or the fact that I'd told him it was fine approximately three times in a row which was two times too many for it to actually be fine.The thing was, I didn't even have the right to be upset. That was what made it so infuriating. I'd written the rules myself. I'd sat in his car and ne

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   18. The Sociology Hall

    ELLIEMonday mornings were always the worst, especially when they started with a 7am lecture. I'd barely slept, which was entirely Beck Ryder's fault and I resented him for it deeply. I'd stayed awake replaying that cheek kiss approximately forty seven times, each time landing on a different feeling about it, none of them particularly useful.By the time I got to campus I'd had two coffees and a silent argument with myself about whether I was allowed to feel as good as I felt, and I'd decisively lost the argument. I felt good. I felt stupidly and unreasonably good, and I had a small and involuntary smile on my face when I wasn't paying attention. It was annoying as hell.I was cutting across the main quad toward the humanities building when I suddenly heard him, and my heart leapt in my chest. "Buzzkill."I turned around, and Beck was jogging toward me from the direction of the parking lot with his backpack over one shoulder and his hair slightly damp like he'd showered twenty minute

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   17. Salmon and Sushi

    ELLIE Here’s something nobody tells you about cooking salmon: it’s a lot more complicated than it has any right to be. It’s a fish. It lives in water. It shouldn’t require this much concentration. “You’re holding the knife wrong,” Aunt Carol said. “I’m holding it fine,” I said. “You’re holding it like you’re terrified,” she said, reaching over and adjusting my grip. “Hold it like this, and curl your fingers under so you don’t take one off.” “I’ve had all my fingers my entire life,” I said. “I think I know how to keep them.” “You also thought you knew how to bake cookies last week,” she said pleasantly, and I had absolutely nothing to say to that. We were standing side by side at the kitchen counter, with a fillet of salmon between us and Aunt Carol’s ancient recipe book propped open against the backsplash. She’d decided after we got back from Henderson’s that tonight was a cooking lesson night, which apparently was not up for debate. I’d been forced into this the moment she’d un

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   16. The Steak Aisle

    ELLIEIt took me about thirty minutes after sneaking back into my room before my stomach started growling. I was hungry, and I needed to eat something before my stomach started eating itself. I still hadn’t heard anything from Aunt Carol, so she had to be asleep still. I could rush downstairs in a matter of minutes, grab a bowl of cereal and run back here before she even blinked. But luck was not on my side that morning. I only made it exactly four steps into the kitchen before Aunt Carol looked up from her coffee and said, “Good morning, sweetheart. How was the pig dissection?”I stopped walking at the sound of her voice, and I prayed for Hades to strike me down. She was sitting at the kitchen island in her robe with her reading glasses on and her mug raised halfway to her lips, looking like a picture of innocence. Except her eyes were way too steady, clearly enjoying the horrified look on my face.“It was fine,” I said carefully, moving toward the refrigerator. “We were studying fo

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   15. The Morning After

    ELLIEI don't know how long we lay there after. Long enough for the candles to burn lower and the music to fade into something quieter, some slow instrumental thing that drifted through the room like it had nowhere else to be. Beck's arm was still around me, his thumb tracing lazy patterns up and down my arm, and I just lay there with my cheek against his chest and listened to his heartbeat slow down.I kept waiting for the awkwardness to arrive. I'd heard enough stories to know that the aftermath was usually worse than the thing itself. Somebody always ended up staring at the ceiling, and somebody always ended up reaching for their clothes too fast. But Beck just lay there like he had all the time in the world, and his hand never stopped moving."You're quiet," he said after a while."I'm always quiet," I muttered."No you're not," he said. "You're usually three sentences away from telling me what an asshole I am all the time."I laughed despite myself, and I felt him smile against t

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   14. A Night to Remember

    ELLIEI was going to hyperventilate. No seriously, I was going to actually collapse right there in Beck's damn living room because my brain had decided to sprint through every single possible way this night could go wrong. Condom tears? Check. Me screaming like a dying animal because I had no idea

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   13. The Build-up

    ELLIEThere's no handbook on how to prepare for your first time. Nobody hands you a laminated checklist titled ‘How to Lose Your Virginity Without Humiliating Yourself’. Which is a shame, because I really could've used one right about now. I thought I knew what I needed to do. But as the hour drew

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   12. Negotiating The Hookup Contract

    ELLIEIf there was ever a moment I could've been hit by a meteor and welcomed it, it was this one. I actually looked up at the sky and waited to see a huge rock hurtling towards me, hopefully to wipe me off the face of the planet. Because Beck Ryder, the beautiful disaster himself, had just kissed

  • A Deal With The College Playboy   10. The Climax

    ELLIEI couldn't breathe as I sat there and looked at Beck with my mouth open. I could have sworn that in that moment, some tiny little creature had crawled into my brain and rewired everything so that I wouldn't be able to think properly. Beck Ryder had just dared me to kiss him. And he wasn't ev

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