Free Straight Roommate by Mandy Harbin

Chapter One

    “ You want me to what?” Mitchell gaped at
his roommate, Landon, certain he hadn’t heard correctly. His brain
was mush from all the studying he’d been doing the last two weeks
preparing for his chemistry midterm exam. He couldn’t afford to
fail it, so things like sleeping and eating had taken a backseat to
his goal. Now his brain was unable to process words, make out
sentences. No way did he hear what he thought he just
heard.
    Landon chuckled as he stumbled into the
room, obviously enjoying the aftereffects of the frat party. He
smiled as he made his way to his side of the room, shucking his
jacket and kicking off his shoes while he walked. Mitchell turned
back to his laptop and the small sample he was testing. His heart
was racing and he couldn’t make out the words before him, but at
least he wasn’t making eye contact with his too-hot roommate,
hearing erroneous things coming out of his supple mouth.
    Mitchell jumped in his seat when he felt
Landon’s hands on his shoulders. How the hell did Landon get so
close to him, and he not know it? He watched, frozen, as Landon
leaned over him to pick up the sample he’d been trying to test.
    “ This it?” he asked
softly.
    Mitchell swallowed, his nod
jerky. He wanted to reach out and take his sample back, but he
couldn’t move. He didn’t make it a practice to let other people
handle it. It was his, dammit. But his lack of nutrition and
shuteye of late had rendered him incapacitated. Yeah, that was it.
    Landon gave Mitchell’s chair a gentle push,
turning him around to face the other man. Only with him sitting,
they weren’t exactly eye-level. Oh no, now Mitchell was staring
straight at Landon’s crotch.
    And his obvious erection.
    Mitchell bit his lip to keep from
moaning—been a long time since he’d seen another man’s hard
cock—and forced his gaze upward, ignoring his own growing
penis.
    The basketball star reached out and almost
touched his cheek before Mitchell’s wits came back. He grabbed the
hand right before it made contact and glared at the guy staring
down at him.
    “ You’re drunk.” He tossed
his hand away and stood so quickly he almost winced at how hard his
dick had gotten. He stepped around Landon and struggled for
breath.
    “ And horny.”
    So much for breathing. The air was totally
gone from the room now. Mitchell turned slowly. “You should go find
Alex, then.”
    Landon chuckled, but there
was no humor in it. “You know we broke up.” He took a step toward
Mitchell, who wanted to flee but didn’t want to show any weakness…no
matter how exhausted he’d been right up until Landon had walked in.
“Think of it as us helping each other out.” He smiled, and
Mitchell’s traitorous dick twitched.
    “ I don’t need your
help.”
    Landon lifted the sample in his hand and
sniffed it. “You sure about that? You’ve been working on your
super-secret personal lube for years. Maybe it’s time for human
trials.” He winked.
    Mitchell ignored the fact that Landon held
his personally formulated lubricant. Knowing he wasn’t pissed the
sample was in someone else’s hands proved how flustered he was.
Under other circumstances he’d be freaking out because he’d fear
the person holding it hostage would either steal it or make fun of
him because of it. He’d worked for years creating his lube, and he
still hadn’t gotten the formula right. He didn’t know why something
that had really started out as a means to save money while
practicing his love of chemistry had turned out to be an obsession,
but it had. Whenever he’d had free time, he’d worked on it…and
loved conducting his own tests, which usually happened on a Friday
night with his favorite Internet porn site. He reluctantly told his
roommate about it one such Friday night when he’d come home early
and caught Mitchell in the middle of testing his latest batch.
    Landon had joked it was a great way to save
money on condoms. But now his roommate wasn’t