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Chapter 1

Nell’s To-Do List

• Finish studying for adv biomech

• Buy more coffee Lots of coffee

There’s a half-naked man in my kitchen

Well, honestly, he’s more like 90 percent naked with just a pair of black boxer briefs that fit very snugly So snugly in fact that I’ant squeaking noise, and he starts to turn Hastily, I try to step back into the shadows of the hallway, butall of the books in runt while the rest tuainst the pain in ain, Naked Man is there in front of me, and he’s just sonaked

He’s got olden brown hair that falls artfully around his face, and in an atteatheringhiroin

“Here, let me help” His voice is deep, and too close, as he kneels beside et everything but rip, and he holds it out to me

“You must be Antonella,” he says

I’lad he said it because I’m not sure I would have been able to remember in the face of all that skin

“Yeah, that’s me”

A door opens in the hallway, spilling light toward us, and I hear my roommate call out, “Silas?”

I look back, and Dylan is rubbing sleepily at her eyes, a Rusk football shirt falling to the hs She sees me and blinks, then looks past me to her boyfriend

“Silas! Where are your clothes?”

He s and so better left in private

“You’re wearing most of them”

Dylan slips aroundto shove Silas back toward her rooe She blows out an exasperated breath “Sorry, Nell I didn’t hear hiet up, or I would have made him put on some clothes”

“You could give rins “If you’re really that concerned”

She swats him, and the smack of flesh draws a ridiculous blush to my cheeks

“Silas, stop it You’re going to embarrass her more than you already have”

“It’s six in theI didn’t think anyone else would be up”