Paper-Thin Armour

Jesse

I don't do relationships. No regulars, no complications, no one who expects more than one night. That's the deal I made with myself, and it's worked fine for three years.

Then Lennox Watson walks in, and challenges me in front of everyone I know — and I can't stop thinking about her.

Lennox

I didn't come to university to fall for anyone, least of all someone with a reputation and a revolving door for a bedroom.

But Jesse Abbott doesn't take no for an answer, and somewhere between the arguments and the late nights and the way he looks at me like I'm the only person in the room, I stopped trying to say it.

We both have reasons not to do this. Good ones. Things we're not telling each other — about our pasts, our families, the people we used to be before we learned not to trust anyone with the truth.