Chapters tagged best friend

by Levantin

Chapter 138

Dinner drew to a close as bourgeois and sterile as it had begun. My father dabbed his lips with the starched linen napkin, pushed back his chair, and rose with a contented sigh. "A thoroughly successful evening, my dears," Richard declared, clapping me jovially on the shoulder o...

by Levantin

Chapter 139

I charged up the stairs of the apartment building two at a time, my breath coming in ragged bursts. Beneath my jeans, the cold steel cylinder chafed against my sensitive groin with every single stride; the small padlock knocked dull under the heavy denim. The academic safe zone w...