The frat house smelled like spilled beer, cheap cologne, and the sour edge of sweat that never quite left the carpets. Music thudded from somewhere upstairs, bass vibrating through the floorboards into the soles of my shoes. I’d only come because my roommate had begged me to drop off the flash drive her boyfriend needed for a project. “Five minutes,” she’d promised. “Just hand it to Jake and leave.”Jake was the president. Tall, broad-shouldered,the kind of guy who smiled with his teeth and never with his eyes. He took the drive, turned it over in his fingers, then looked at me like I’d already agreed to something I hadn’t heard yet.“Stay for a drink,” he said with finality.I should have said no but being the stupid bitch I was,I said, “Just one please.”One turned into the living room couch, three of his brothers drifting in like they’d been waiting. Marcus, the one with the shaved head and the permanent half-smirk. Tyler was quieter, eyes always moving. And Devon, who leaned aga
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