Wanted: A Roommate Who Isn't Evil (High Court of the Coffee Bean, #3)

by Jennifer Kropf

It was better than going back.

avoid going home to face the father who didn’t want him.

she’d slipped down the muddy slope into the river, or had jumped in herself to fetch a fish,

he was too afraid of his father’s retaliation

He’d already suffered the man’s wrath for missing an entire day of work on the docks

seven days a week. The only one his family wished would just not come home at all.

his elder brothers and sisters milling about, carrying pleasant conversations and laughing together, sharing a joy he was not allowed to have,

He wasn’t angry. At least, he wasn’t angry at his family. He was angry at himself.

Why had he been born as such a shameful being?

Why did he lack the ability to contro...

He wasn’t sure why he assumed no one would remember the things that had happened.

The mocking shouts, the heartless, faeborn males and their swatting and hitting and kicking, the way the onlookers all laughed as he seized up. “I was just a few years old then,”

“It’s been a while since any fool of the village has tried to raise a hand against me.”...

“But it doesn’t mean they don...

Pathetic that his family hated him and wanted him gone and wished he was dead. Yet… he still loved them.

A story about a young boy who, even after all these years, was still waiting for his family to love him back. A boy who would be waiting forever because they never would.

he deserves all the hugs.

it had never crossed his mind that he wasn’t the only one. That maybe there were others, even beyond her and him. That reaching out to another outcast had been an option all this time on his lonely journey, and he’d never thought to do it.

“Many want me to die. But no one has ever wanted me to live,”

“I’ll not take care of you either,” he stated. “I refuse to go fetch food by myself. I’d rather watch us both starve than—” “Good.” Luc stood so fast, Dranian nearly

lets go together! (`v`) (evil smirk)

It seemed the only food they could settle on was ice cream.

he’d originally intended, but…

brutally kill Mor. He wouldn’t even see it coming.

He cares!

he hated himself. More than normal today.

The boi! Must protec

few things

Why did Mor Trisencor have to be ...

the supposed band of loyal brothers—were all keeping secrets from each other.

But don’t tell Dranian the fox is back. The fool is already heated about his arm being stolen.

They are roommates LOL

Lily was spending long hours at work these days, yet Shayne claimed he’d once stopped in at Lily’s office and she wasn’t there.

Cress telling Violet about the improvements to his new cookbook emerged.

Cress was still going on about his cookbook upstairs.

Lily was keeping a large secret from everyone.

like he knew a larg...

Dog-Shayne

Dog-Shayne

Dog-Shayne

Dog-Shayne

Dog-Shayne’s

ones she could have certainly carried herself.

didn’t have answers to. Questions such as: Are you daft? How could you not tell Mor that the treacherous fox of his childling years is sharing a box of space

with you? How could you keep it from Cress,

how could you not even call Shayne when Shayne would have certainly called you if...

G...

It kept ringing.

Just once. In a village he had left behind.

have no name to tell you to make you trust me—”

What had he done?

Shayne had chosen to leave his only communication device behind.

he could never fall back to sleep again.

she always seemed to be hiding.

To make something of himself.