Guilty Secrets (Campus Love and Murder Sorority Eyes Romance Book 1) Read Free

in my voice. "I see."
    According to the campus map app, my new home was the six floor red brick behind a courtyard.
    "Room seventeen."
    I trailed after Brad, feeling a little less special, but nonetheless grateful.
    Awaiting us on the ground floor lobby at the bottom of the staircase was a torrent of water cascading around my sneakers. Brad turned to me. "Did you start this one too?"
    I scowled and shook my head as guiltily as possible. "No, but I guess I'll get the citation anyway."
    He laughed. "Once is bad luck. Twice is the universe conspiring against you. Nobody knows you enough to hate you, yet. So relax."
    As we waded up the staircase Brad said, "I wouldn't want to be the loser who gets billed for this one."
    Brad hauled the cases up onto his shoulders and skipped two steps at a time. After four floors he was still going strong, while my heart was fit to burst. I dragged my one battered case up through the river cascading down at me. Trying to keep up with Brad, just so I could steal a succession of glimpses at a perfectly formed ass through jeans that seemed to be spray painted onto his tight and presumably sculptured cheeks.
    Pushing through an angry crowd of my new neighbors, I found Brad on the fifth floor, sat idly on my cases outside the door to the room which was clearly the source of the flood. The door was number seventeen.
    Avoiding my gaze, he whispered, "I guess the universe does have it in for you, after all."
    He opened the door to number seventeen and hurled my cases inside. They splashed with more dignity than I could muster and received a sarcastic round of applause from my new neighbors. A light flickered on and off from inside my new home like a B-movie horror flick. The cases floated about on the carpet looking as aimless and confused as I was feeling.
    Here was my one chance to salvage something from the day. I wiped my wet hair out of my eyes and turned to him with all the flirtatious gratitude a horny and lonely girl could muster.
    He stood there, oozing magnetic attraction with the silent dignity of an almost scolding expression. My knees began to shake and my stomach back flipped on the wings of a wondrously teasing flock of butterflies. I fluttered my eyes imperceptibly with a view to catching the meager flickering light and showing off my eyes at their seductive best.
    That's the moment he crushed me.
    "No girlfriend of mine could ever get caught up in such a pathetic situation."
    With that, he turned without a glimmer of sardonic wit on his stony face and vanished into the crowd. Reeling from the shock I staggered backwards into a tiny two room apartment. I slammed the door on the noisy crowd shouting at me and demanding an explanation for the flood I had apparently biblically brought down on them.
    Who was I kidding? First Officer Hotness and then Brad? Like tantalizing ghosts, teasing my imagination with sensual promises of love, they had vanished. Deep down I knew both were illusions.
    I acknowledged the secret truth hiding inside of me. Even if at that moment both Officer Hotness and Brad broke down my door and begged me on a date, I could never be with either of them. The truth was, I had a secret.
    A deadly secret that forced me to set aside all prospects of love. No matter how much the loneliness hurt. Robyn White was not my real name.
    For their sakes and mine, those two delicious men could never know who I really was.

CHAPTER THREE
    I sat on my four cases. A tiny island in the center of an Olympic size pool of self-pity, fighting pathetic tears when a knock at the door promised the end of my mortification.
    I cautiously opened the door expecting the janitor, but no. A dazzling and beautifully exotic young woman pointed a camera lens at me and snapped away.
    Time to put on the boxing gloves.
    "Look, it's my first day. I don't know why everything is going wrong. I just want to be left alone. Is that so hard for you people to understand?"
    "Mai Ling."
    "Excuse me?"
    She looked me up