Total pages in book: 64
Estimated words: 60851 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 304(@200wpm)___ 243(@250wpm)___ 203(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 60851 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 304(@200wpm)___ 243(@250wpm)___ 203(@300wpm)
All moved in, everything’s good. I’m shattered now so I’m going to have an early night. I’ll call you tomorrow.
She replied within seconds as though she’d been waiting for him to call.
Okay sweetie, glad you’re settled. Sleep well xxx
He picked up his notepad and crossed off phone home. Texting counted. He also crossed off everything else on his list for today. That was Saturday done.
Dev set his notepad aside, opened his laptop, and pulled up his lists app. He liked his notepad for day-to-day organisation; it gave him a certain satisfaction to cross out the things he’d done and to get to the end of the day with all the tasks completed. But for longer-term planning, he kept his lists on his Mac, synced to his phone.
For the first time in six months, Dev could breathe again. Finally he had a safe place where he could get back on track and look to the future. He began to type.
Things To Do This Term
Make some friends
Learn to cook
Research sex stuff
Join Grindr
Get some experience
Find a boyfriend
He stared at the words on the screen and sighed. That seemed like a lot of things to aim for. But it was good to have goals, right? Jez and Mac seemed really nice, so hopefully Dev was already on his way to achieving the first objective. And that bloke Ewan… Dev’s mind conjured up the image of the flame-haired hunk who lived next door. Ewan had been friendly.
Maybe there was potential there too.
CHAPTER TWO
Ewan happened to be in when the Amazon delivery guy arrived.
He signed for the package and carried it into the kitchen. He was expecting the new bike lights he’d ordered, and it was rare for anyone else in the house to order anything online. They were all skint students. So it was perfectly reasonable for him to open the package without checking the name on the front first.
Ewan was alone, back from an early-afternoon lecture, and he tore into the cardboard packaging as he waited for the kettle to boil for his Pot Noodle. He stared down at the contents of the box.
“What the fuck?” he muttered.
A hot flush crawled up his neck and over his face. That definitely wasn’t a bike light.
It was a dildo. A very nice-looking dildo, if you were into that sort of thing—and Ewan was. This one looked expensive, much classier than the cheap, tacky one Ewan had. The new dildo was smallish but perfectly formed, an attractive shade of dark blue with a realistic cockhead and some subtle veins on the shaft. A curved handle meant it would be good for solo use.
Ewan wondered which of his flatmates was going to kill him for opening it by mistake. His money was on Nadia because the other guys in the house were relentlessly straight as far as he was aware. He couldn’t imagine any of them sticking anything up their arses. Unless… Ryan, maybe? He was the adventurous type. But Nadia seemed the most likely candidate. Justine was pretty sheltered… but then again, sometimes the quiet ones surprised you.
He turned the package over to look at the label and frowned. On the box he read a name he didn’t recognise: Devrim Karadere—maybe someone who’d lived in the house last year? But then Ewan looked more carefully and realised the package shouldn’t have come to their house. It was supposed to have been delivered next door.
“Devrim,” Ewan muttered. “Devrim… Dev.” The pieces slotted into place.
The intended recipient of the dildo was obviously the cute guy who’d moved in next door last weekend. Since their encounter in the street, Ewan had seen him coming and going a few times. They’d exchanged greetings but nothing more.
Dev seemed shy, but he always smiled at Ewan, and something about that smile and those dark Bambi eyes behind his thick-framed glasses made Ewan’s stomach flutter.
He’d been wondering whether Dev was gay, and he supposed the dildo answered his question. Okay, some straight guys liked anal play, but not usually with anything shaped like a real dick.
The sound of the front door and voices in the hallway startled Ewan out of his reverie. He closed the package quickly and stuck it under his arm. Abandoning his Pot Noodle, he hurried out.
Passing Ryan and James on his way to the stairs, he muttered a hurried greeting without stopping to chat.
In his room, Ewan studied the package again, wondering whether he could tape it up in such a way that it wasn’t obvious he’d opened it. But there was no way that would work. It was one of those with the cardboard strip you had to tear out to open. He could stick the package shut, but it would be clear it had been tampered with.
For a wild moment, he considered keeping the bloody thing. He could have some fun with it… and then Dev would presumably tell Amazon it had never arrived, so they’d send him a replacement. But no, that wouldn’t work either because he’d signed for the bloody thing.