The Roommate Pact: No Strings Attached

Chapter 6 No.6

Word Count: 630 | Released on: 22/01/2026

e had spent the day in a haze of macroeconomics and business

TV was on, a mindless Netflix reality show playing at a low volume. She w

e kitchen, made himself a sandwich, and th

y sound was the chirpy voic

y Netflix account," B

a piece of kale with her fork. "I f

u're halfway through Bridgerton. You always

e tired. "I like the ones where the guy a

wn. "Kiera, talk to me. Really talk to me. Ho

ffee table. She pulled her knees up to

she said, her voi

heart stop. "Wh

r the concerto. I picked up my bow. And my hands would

ds now, as if they we

ought I was having a breakdown. I lost my sp

d reaching out instinctively. "Ki

You weren't there when I was sitting in my dorm room for three weeks, waiting for

inally bursting out. "They took my phone. They froze my accounts. My father had a

saw a flicker of the old Kiera-the one

pression har

r father still having a heart attack while y

staged photo op to keep the stock price from plummeting. He couldn't tell her that Gloria was the daug

ed," Brendon said

ur family's reputation over me. You chose your money over t

oom, her footsteps echo

rendon. And you aren't that b

and this time, he h

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“"We do not talk. Ever," she warned, her voice trembling with a year's worth of rage. Brendon Hampton was Manhattan's ultimate "simp," using wealth and shallow socialites to silence his past. But during a lavish dinner, he snapped. He walked out, moved into a luxury apartment-and found Kiera Richards, the girl he ghosted during his father's scandal, standing in his new living room. Reunion is a nightmare. Kiera, now an "Ice Queen," looks at him with pure loathing. A housing glitch and a massive lease penalty trap them together. She reveals his disappearance cost her more than her heart-it shattered her mental health and her violin career at Juilliard. Brendon endures her hatred daily, unable to explain that federal agents seized his phone and his father had a heart attack. He abides by her rigid rules of silence, treated like a biohazard in his own home. Everything changes during a blackout. As a storm rages, Kiera's icy mask cracks-and she collapses into his arms, terrified of the dark. In the shadows, Brendon notices she still wears the necklace he gave her long ago. The war isn't over, but he's no longer just a roommate-he's a man determined to win back the soul he destroyed.”