Playing the Game (Providence University #6) - Ali Parker Page 0,16
window as he drove away. He didn’t push to come inside. Maybe he really was going to do better this time.
Chapter 6
Seth
I had never had a kiss so hot or cared about anyone the way I did Avery. Not even Layla. While there was a time that I thought Layla hung the moon, now my heart was mended, and I had moved on.
I felt like a dick for what had happened with Ben. To know that Avery heard us talking about her not only embarrassed me, but it made me feel just horrible.
A lot of times, the guys at Omega House said shit to me, and I would just blow it off. That was all I was trying to do with little confrontation about my love life.
While I had been a party animal and allowed myself to be talked about, it seemed that I’d also given some people the wrong idea that they could say anything and get away with it. I had to start being more accountable for making sure the truth was understood. What people said not only hurt me now, but they could hurt Avery as well.
I closed my eyes and could still feel her lips. Having the opportunity to kiss her had keyed me up, and now I was too excited to simply go home for the night.
If only she had invited me in. I knew Avery was going to take it slowly, but by not inviting me in, it had me wondering. What if she didn’t really like the kiss? What if it had given her second thoughts about us?
As I stepped outside her apartment complex, I felt so alive and up to whatever she threw my way. If Avery wanted to play hard to get, I was up to the challenge.
My head was reeling. I decided to stop by Omega House on the way back to my place just because I wasn’t ready to go home for the night.
I got out and went to the door, knocking even though I had always been welcomed without it.
Micah came to the door and opened it with a smile. “Hey, my friend. Come on in. You’re just in time for the next tapping ceremony to begin.” He gestured to the corner where the ceremonial keg had been wheeled out. A small crowd of Omegas stood around it, waiting for the beer to flow from its glorious tap that was being put in place as I walked in.
I shook Micah’s hand as his girl Tasha came over and got his attention. She was such a knockout, it was hard not to notice, but Avery was hotter.
Natasha gave me a hard look, believing the rumors along with the rest of the girls who were more loyal to Layla.
I was used to it. They didn’t matter. None of them.
“Come on, Micah. You promised me dinner away from this house.” Natasha Kelly had really changed Micah for the better too, and they were another couple who had what I wanted with Avery.
“Come on,” he said, taking her hand. “My honor calls.” He moved past me out the door and stopped on the stoop to glance back. “Go on in and have fun.”
As he walked away, I went inside and found it to be a lot crazier of a scene than was usual for a Thursday night.
“Come on in, dude,” said Ben, who was standing with a group of first-year cheerleaders. They were always up for some fun and for trying to impress Lizzy, who was usually busy trying to impress me as well as any other guy she could get her claws into.
“Seth,” called a voice from across the room. I turned to find Britany Burns coming my way. Britany had been after me for a while, and I wasn’t as happy to see her as she was to see me.
“Oh, hey. How’s it going?”
“Better now that you’re here.” She put her hands on me as soon as she got within reach, and I caught her hands and removed them from my chest before she could put them around my neck or arm.
“I’m not staying too long,” I said, trying to give her the brush off.
“Come on. I came hoping you’d be here. We never got to finish our talk last time.”
I looked into her big blue eyes and tried hard to remember ever striking up a real conversation with her that didn’t end in me coming and going. “I’m sorry. Maybe some other time.”