beautiful note and smiled.
“Oh that’s so sweet!” Ava gushed. “The man in your life sends you flowers to campus,” she said a little too loudly.
Raven felt her stand on her foot under the table. She knew immediately what Ava was doing.
“Yeah, he’s the best,” Raven sighed.
She sneaked a glance to Beck.
Big mistake.
She couldn’t decipher the look on his face, but he wasn’t happy.
It was no secret that Beck didn’t like to mess around with girls already ‘taken’; he’d insisted on it.
If a girl was seeing somebody and came to him, he wouldn’t entertain them. No matter what he’d done, he refused to be the ‘other guy’, even for just the one time.
“I’m not interested,” he said bluntly.
The girl who’d flirted with him had been attempting to tease him for the past hour.
“Why not? It’s a no-strings-one off, just like you said. It’s not like I’m asking you to cuddle me afterwards, Beck.”
“You have a boyfriend, Lita, I don’t touch taken girls.”
Beck sounded bored. He made a move to leave, but Lita stepped in front of him and lifted her hand to put it on his chest.
Beck’s reflexes were too quick, and he grabbed her wrist.
“Lita, I said no.”
He dropped her hand and walked away, shaking his head.
Raven felt embarrassed for the girl. She’d practically begged Beck to have sex with her.
There was something else there too, though. She knew Beck didn’t want any attachment, but the way Lita spoke to him was like Beck was just something she just wanted to use for her own pleasure.
He wasn’t a person to her. He was just a dildo with a pulse.
That’s all he was wanted for.
He knew it too.
Raven felt awful for him.
“So, who are they from?”
Donnie asked, as he walked by their table. He’d been walking in when Raven had taken delivery of the flowers.
“Her main man,” Kerry gushed, batting her eyes and holding her hands to her chest in a sigh.
“He’s older; mature,” Leila added for good measure. “I bet he’s really great.”
“He’s amazing, and I love him,” Raven said, smiling up at Donnie. She knew she looked convincing; she was telling the truth after all.
She got out her phone and sent a thank you text.
“Huh,” Donnie grunted, narrowing his eyes. He glanced between the smiling faces at the table before walking over to Beck.
When he got there, they exchanged words, but Raven couldn’t make out what they were saying. Whatever it was, it wasn’t good.
Oh shit.
“Let’s take these up to my room,” Raven whispered.
The girls nodded, and they hurried out of the hall.
“Did you see his face?” Ava had a guilty expression when she spoke first. “I think we pushed it a little too far, there.”
“What? Like he doesn’t push Ray too far?” Kerry asked. “He does everything but enter her when he gets going.”
“God, Kerry!” Raven shrieked. “He doesn’t get anywhere near that close.”
“He gets closer with you than other girls,” Leila pointed out.
“I think inside is as close as you can get.”
“Not when it comes to Beck, Ray-Ray. You know that.” Ava put her arm around Raven’s shoulders as they walked.
“I do feel bad. He must hate himself right now.”
“He should,” Kerry spoke up. “Serves him right.”
It wasn’t that Raven thought Beck needed to pay for all the times he had her weak at the knees; he needed to pay for all the times that he’d left her in worse states.
A hot, quivering mess.
Maybe he would leave her alone, even for a short time.
But did she want him to?
Getting to her dorm, Ava helped trim the stems, and put the flowers into a large vase, whilst Kerry and Ava got some late studying in for their class.
The flowers looked beautiful, and Raven beamed at how they brightened their room.
The room was painted in a warm yellow color with a pale pink border around the top. Their matching peach bed covers made the room look like it had a summer glow to it. The