The Roommate Pact: No Strings Attached

Chapter 8 No.8

Word Count: 575 | Released on: 22/01/2026

very different conversation was happeni

harcoal mask covering her face. Her eyes were red and puffy

her voice muffled by the mask. "He has to be

lieutenant, was sitting on the floor, meticulously pa

out it. He's been your lapdog for months. He's probably tir

wide. "Chase him? I don'

walking out, he's trying to shift the dynamic. He wants you to feel ins

in her world. Everything was a transac

ered. "He looked right throu

practiced that look in the mirror for an hour. And the cold shoulder thing

relief. "So he's not

way he looked at you at the Zeta formal? He looked like he wanted

ooked at the blocked status on her

t you. You're a mess. Tomorrow, we're going to find out

s nose wrinkled. "That's

m. We'll go there tomorrow afternoon. We'll 'accidentally' be in the are

ing around her mouth. "You're right. H

of annoyance. Hettie didn't actually care if Brendon came back. S

pensive. But I'll make sure the bill goes to his fat

an we please get dressed? The p

She felt powerful again. She was the Queen, and Brendon Hampton wa

iera Richards sleep through the crack in her bedroom door, his 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.”