Unfiltered
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Or even one, so far.
That didn’t mean she was blind or frigid or something, because she didn’t like to admit it, but she was standing in the hallway, listening to the bed-destroying sex her vapid roommate was having and wondering what it would be like to just let go like that, to surrender to sheer lust and have a man’s hands all over her and his body on hers and in her … and it was all too real, and she felt hot and wired and her imagination painted far too vivid a picture of not just his rock-hard toned body and the sweat that rolled down his chest, but the chiseled hollows of his hips as they flexed and drove and thrust and made her beg for
“Oh God please,” Brittany moaned, and the fact that her roommate overlaid her own mental voice shocked Hope out of that moment, back to reality. Back to standing in the hall listening like some total perv as the moaning and begging and headboard-hammering rose to a four-star review level, and then there was Brittany’s trademark orgasm scream. Everybody on the floor knew it by now, because it was so theatrical that dogs howled three blocks away.
A door opened across the hall, and Mattie looked out, saw Hope in the hall and gave her a sympathetic smile as she rolled her eyes. Hope tried not to laugh, but failed miserably.
“You think she’s done yet?” she asked Mattie. The other girl shook her head and fidgeted with her thick brown braid.
“She usually goes at least two rounds if they’re in a frat or really cute.”
“What’s this one?”
“Really cute and in a frat,” Mattie said. “Better plan for a siege.”
It mystified Hope how her roommate could get this endless string of young studs to follow her to that well-used bed … some of them were actually kind of nice, which she could always tell because those were the ones who avoided her eyes while hastily getting the hell out afterwards.
The not-so-nice ones sometimes drunkenly asked if she was going to join in. One or two had groped her while asking.
“Better break out the headphones,” Hope said. “I’ll be at the Cave. Would you text me when he leaves?”
“Will do, if I don’t fall asleep first. You ought to just pay your coffee shop the rent,” Mattie said. “I’ll bet you don’t kicked out there nearly as often as you do here. And hardly anybody is fucking on the floor.”
Hope smiled. It still felt weirdly artificial, because she’d grown up never hearing that word spoken aloud. Being homeschooled was sometimes a real bitch (another word she’d never heard aloud, until high school, and it had been said about her in the first five minutes). High school might have been awful, but I had given her a solid education in cursing.
“Have a good night,” she said. Mattie waved and shut her door, and Hope cast one last, longing look at her dorm room door and thought, maybe this time she’ll be done early …
And then she heard a man’s voice from the room saying, “Oh yeah, like that, that’s how I like it baby, suck it,” and she turned and headed for the elevator.
A Letter From Payge Galvin:
Dear Readers,
Thank you so much for reading Unfiltered & Unknown! I hope you love what you’ve seen so far. There’s so much more to come! Next is Unfiltered & Unsaved in March 14, 2014 followed quickly by Unfiltered & Unhinged in April 14, 2014.
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Acknowledgements
My natural tendency when faced with something new is to say a polite ‘no thank you’ and then go take a bath. This is to thank all of my amazing Unfiltered friends who made our new venture sound fun and then provided the tools to make it real. A special thank you has to go to our fearless leader who worked tirelessly to make this series a success. The experience has been truly life-changing for me.
A huge thank you must go to the bloggers and reviewers who helped publicize our efforts, as well as RT Magazine and USA Today who took a chance on a big unknown (pun intended). I also want to thank the readers who trust us enough to come along for the ride – I hope it was as good for you as it was for me. Writing Dillon and Savannah’s story was pure pleasure and I’m glad you were a part of it.
Now I think it’s time to go take that bath.
Lynne