All Chapters of HIS ROOMMATE WAS A LIE : Chapter 41 - Chapter 43

Sera PovI couldn’t breathe. Not since Kael had me pinned against the wall, his hand beside my head like a cage I didn’t want to escape from. His voice was low, broken, and desperate that still echoed in my ears and haunted my mind.Why him? Why Luca?I pressed my back harder against the cool plaster of the hallway wall long after he stormed off, as if the wall could help me. My pulse was beating frantically like a drum in my throat, my wrists. My skin still burned where his fingers had brushed mine.River stood a few feet away, with his arms crossed, watching me like I was a bomb about to go off.“You okay?” he asked, his voice softer now.I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. I wasn’t okay; I was wrecked.Kael looked at me like I was the only thing in the world, like I was his—like I had betrayed him by existing near anyone else, and the worst part that made me want to scream was that I liked it. His possessiveness,the heat in his eyes. The way his voice cracked when he said my

Sera PovI waited until the dorm was a silent, no footsteps in the hall or muffled laughter from the common room. I counted to three hundred after the last door clicked shut. Then I slipped out of the room with the towel slung over my shoulder as the chest binder already itching under my hoodie. The straps had been digging into my ribs all day and every breath was a reminder that I was living half a life.When I entered in the bathroom I locked the main door behind me with a click. I peeled off my clothes fingers trembling as they worked the binder’s hooks. When it finally gave, I exhaled freely for the first time in hours.Cool air kissed my skin. My breasts were small but still visible. They ached from the compression. I rolled my shoulders, let my head fall back, and stepped under the spray.For one minute, I wasn’t Seth. I was just me. Sera, tired, terrified, and finally free of the lie for sixty seconds.I should’ve known the peace wouldn’t last long when I heard the lock I