The Hockey Roommate's Filthy Desire novel Chapter 162

Chapter 162

JULIAN’S POW

A sharp. pounding pain in my head woke me up I blinked hard against the bright morning light, realizing I was lying on the

gone back to my own house the previous might. I had spent the entire evening right here on this couch, drinking

rain went completely numb

I had left my place in total chaos, driving over to Blake’s house in nothing but my pajamas because I was too upset to stay

the same roof as Leone and I needed to talk to Aria

By time I reached his front door last night. I was already a mess, and I just kept pouring glass after glass until I couldn’t feel anything anymore. I couldn’t go back to Leonie looking and feeling like this.

Blake had tried to talk to me when I first arrived, but I told him to just leave me alone. I didn’t want his pity, and I didn’t want to talk about my life.

Seeing how angry and drunk I was, he didn’t push it. He just left me by myself in the living room, and I passed the night right there on the hard couch, still wearing my messy pajamas.

As soon as my eyes stayed open this morning, I sat up and rubbed my face. My mouth tasted dry, and my head felt like it was going to explode. I wanted to leave immediately.

I didn’t want to sit around and answer questions about why I was hiding out or what was going on with my family. But as I grabbed my car keys from the coffee table, Blake walked into the room from the kitchen.

He stopped, looked at me, and jokingly said,

“Wow, man. You look like a total piece of trash.”

He wasn’t lying, My pajamas were wrinkled and stained, my hair was a wild nest, and I smelled like stale alcohol.

“Shut up, Blake, I muttered, my voice cracking. “I’m leaving.”

“Not like that, you’re not,” Blake said, pointing down the hallway. “Go use the guestroom to freshen up. I’ll get you something clean to wear so you don’t walk out of my building looking like a crazy person.”

He went into his closet and brought out some clean, new clothes for me to change into. I took the clothes from his hands without saying a single word, walked straight into the bathroon, and turned the shower on as hot as I could go.

I stood under the running water for a long time, letting the heat hit my sore muscles. I tried to wash away the heavy weight of the past few days, but the dark, ugly mood just wouldn’t leave my chest.

When I finally walked back out into the living room. I felt a little cleaner, but the anger was still burning inside me. Blake was sitting on the kitchen counter, casually sipping his morning coffee from a black mug

He was pulling through his phone, totally relaxed, but suddenly, he completely froze. He gasped, almost choking on his

ww drink as his eyes went wide.

He stared hard at the at reen, his face turning pale in a split second. “What are you looking at?” I asked, my voice dry and

rkly pulled the phone back, trying to flip it over against lus leg. “Nothing,” he said quickly.

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He said it in a very sneaky, suspicious way. He wouldn’t even look me in the eye. “Give me the phone, Blake.‘ I demanded. stepping closer.

“Julian, seriously, just drop it. You don’t need to see this right now,” he stammered, backing away.

I became completely skeptical. I knew Blake too well.

I knew that look on his face meant something terrible had happened. I stepped forward, reached out my arm, and grabbed the phone right out of his hand before he could try to hide it in his pocket.

“Hey. Don’t- Blake shouted, but it was too late.

My heart completely stopped. Right there on the screen, a video was playing. It was Aria. She was running through a luxury hotel downtown.

She was wearing tight shorts and a casual tee, her hair messy from the morning. Before I could even process why she was there, she lunged forward, grabbed the lapels of a heavy coat, and pulled a man’s face down to hers.

It was Brandon. She pressed her lips hard against his, kissing him desperately right out in the open pavement for the whole world to see.

The video was already trending all over the internet, with thousands of views and nasty comments ticking up by the second.

A hot, blinding wave of rage rushed through my veins like fire. My jaw clenched so hard that my teeth ached, and my fingers gripped Blake’s phone so tightly that the plastic case began to groan under the pressure.

I wanted to smash the phone right into the wall. I wanted to tear down the whole room, rip the cabinets off the walls, and break every single thing in sight. I couldn’t breathe.

“Julian, hey, calm down. Just breathe, man,” Blake tried to plead with me, stepping off the counter and reaching out his hands to take his phone back

before I broke it. “Don’t do something stupid!”

But I didn’t listen to a single word he said. I couldn’t hear him over the loud, angry ringing in my ears. I felt like a total failure.

I had tried so hard to clear things up, to get her back, and yet here she was, throwing herself at another man is public where anyone could watch.

I felt a terrible need to pour my aggression

somewhere, to break something into tiny pieces, to make the burning pain in my chest stop, but none of it was working.

The anger was just stuck in my throat, choking me until I felt dizzy.

How could she do this to me? How could she be kissing him in public, right where the cameras and the paparazzi could

catch her?

I didn’t stay to talk to Blake. I didn’t say goodbye. I just threw his phone onto the couch, stormed out of his apartment, slammed the front door behind me, and got into my car.

I drove home like a complete madman, running through amber lights and weaving through traffic, the image of her lips on Brandon’s face burning into my brain over and over again.

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The moment those words left her mouth, something inside my head snapped. The very last be of my cook my broke apart

I lunged forward, my movement so fast and aggressive that she didn’t even have time to

grabbed her neck, my fingers locking tight around her throat, and strangled her

I pushed her back hard against the living room wall, my eyes wide and wild with pure rage. She ranged for

clawing violently at my wrists as her face turned bright red, until I finally let go.

She broke loose, dropping to her knees, and began to cough violently while clutching her throat.

“Get out!” 1 roared, my voice shaking the walls of the house. “Get the hell out of my sight”

Leonie looked up at me with pure terror in her eyes. She realized I had completely lost my mind, and she did say wher word

She scrambled to her feet and ran out of the room like a total crybaby, sobbing loudly as she fled out of the house.

I marched over to the door and slammed it shut with all my strength, locking myself inside the room alone. The silence in the living room was heavy and suffocating.

I looked at the glass sitting on the turned–over coffee table from the night before. I picked it up and smashed in hard against the floor, shouting out in anger as I watched the shiny pieces fly everywhere across the rug

“Damn it, Aria.” I yelled at the empty room.

Then, I grabbed the heavy edge of the wooden table and completely flipped it over, sending the rest of the magazines crashing down into a giant mess.

My chest was heaving up and down, but the burning pain inside me wouldn’t go away. I walked over to the quor cabinet, grabbed a fresh, unopened bottle of heavy alcohol, and broke the seal

I sat right down on the floor amidst the broken glass and my overturned furniture, and I began to wishing the liquor would finally wipe the image of Aria out of my mind for good