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And just when I thought I’d collected myself enough to say something else— hopefully marginally smart— his lips stretched. That puzzled look dissolved completely, giving way to a smile and whatever words had climbed to my mouth crumbed. Because he was smiling. And it was big and bright and quite frankly, beautiful in this blatant way you don’t really know what to do with.

⟡ it was immediately engaging— it was unique and fun, and i found myself laughing a few times. ⟡ Rosie was funny, charming and endearing. she was witty and maybe a bit quirky, but in a cute way. i instantly liked her! ⟡ Lucas seemed lovely with a humorous and playful energy about him. ⟡ the book jumps right into story straight away— i love when authors do this, rather then a slow build up. i just want to be in on the important stuff straight away, otherwise im bored to tears waiting for something to actually happen. ⟡ Rosie and Lucas’ first interaction, again, was pretty funny. it wasn’t trying too hard to be quirky, but instead felt authentic in a way that showcased both MCs personalities.

“And I imagined this, his hug, his body, him, being my safe-heaven. My normal. My bad days, my good days. My every day..."

“I feel that. Poor little guy.” “You get sweaty hands, too?” Lucas made sure he was meeting my gaze when he said, “I would if I was trying to work up the courage to kiss a girl like you.”

“I couldn’t wait a second more to start our new life together, Rosie. I’ve waited enough. I’ve waited a lifetime without me knowing. So why don’t you open this door and let me show you?”

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New york times, sunday times & international bestselling author, instant new york times,, usa today, sunday times, globe & mail and international bestseller indie next & library reads pick b&n best books of 2022 goodreads choice awards best romance nominee, and  soon to be published in over 25 languages.

"Elena Armas is the undisputed queen of slow burn, steamy, deliciously swoony romcoms." —Ali Hazelwood, NYT bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

"their chemistry was fire ... these two characters truly leap from the page. delicious fun from start to finish" —christina lauren, nyt bestselling authors of the unhoneymooners, "a novel that is fun, fresh, and sexy as hell." —jodi picoult, nyt bestselling author of wish you were here, about the american roommate experiment.

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.

Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

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Elena Armas is a Spanish writer, a self confessed hopeless romantic, and much to Mr. B's dismay, a proud book hoarder. After years of devouring HEAs and talking––okay fine, yelling––nonstop about them, she has finally taken the leap and decided to create some of her own.

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Elena Armas is a Spanish writer, self-confessed hopeless romantic and proud book hoarder. Now, she’s also the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Spanish Love Deception , The American Roommate Experiment and The Long Game . Her latest novel is The Fiancé Dilemma . Her books are being translated to over thirty languages—which is bananas, if you ask her.

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• Publisher: Atria Books (September 6, 2022)
• Length: 400 pages
• ISBN13: 9781668002773

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“This was a slow-burn romance—I loved Rosie and Lucas together!” — FIRST For Women

"Rosie and Lucas’ connection deepens with every swoony, steamy date – you’ll want to get swept up, too." — USA Today

“For a slow-burn rom-com featuring an introvert, an extrovert, forced-proximity fake-dating, some undeniable chemistry and a masquerade ball, pick up The American Roommate Experiment (Atria) by Elena Armas, author of 2021’s fan favorite The Spanish Love Deception .” — PARADE

“This sweet dual-POV romance will leave your heart aching for more!" —Buzzfeed

“This friends-to-lovers trope will have readers rooting for the couple as things turn steamy. Though it’s a follow-up to The Spanish Love Deception , Armas’s contemporary romance can be read as a stand-alone; perfect for readers who love Emily Henry and Tessa Bailey.” — Library Journal

“Armas’s adorable follow-up to Booktok sensation The Spanish Love Deception will delight fans even as it stands on its own… Armas does a fantastic job showing her characters’ developing feelings and allowing the romantic tension to drive the plot. This is a treat.” — Publishers Weekly

“A frothy, playful delight! In her slam-dunk follow-up to The Spanish Love Deception , Armas gives us the sunshine honey Lucas Martín, and strong, vulnerable Rosie Graham and throws them into a god-tier forced proximity romance that had me literally grinning so hard at the pages! Their chemistry was fire, but it was the way their genuine love and support for each other evolved on page that had me swooning. Armas’s writing flows like a riveting conversation, pulling the reader in immediately, and these two characters truly leap from the page. Delicious fun from start to finish!” —Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners

“Elena Armas is the undisputed queen of slow burn, steamy, deliciously swoony romcoms—everything she writes is utterly delightful and has me squeeing in pure joy. Reading The American Roommate Experiment was some of the best-spent hours of my life, and I cannot wait to see what Elena has in store for us next!” —Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

“What happens when a romance writer gets trapped by her own tropes? A novel that is fun, fresh, and sexy as hell.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here

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The American Roommate Experiment (2022) is a contemporary romance novel by Elena Armas. This New York Times bestseller follows the coincidental romance between the spontaneous but uncertain Rosie and Lucas, her best friend Lina’s cousin—a man she’s ogled from afar via social media—as they find themselves being roommates. With a few recurring characters, it is technically a follow-up novel to The Spanish Love Deception (2021), which was also a New York Times bestseller and, as of 2023, is slated for a film adaptation.

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The American Roommate Experiment opens with Rosie Graham facing a series of calamities: Her apartment ceiling collapsed due to flooding, so she is staying in her best friend Catalina “Lina” Martín-Blackford’s apartment. Lina, the protagonist of Elena Armas’s previous novel, The Spanish Love Deception , is on her honeymoon in Peru. Suddenly, a man arrives and tries to enter Lina’s apartment, claiming he has a key. Rosie mistakes him for a burglar, but after some banter, she realizes the man is Lucas Martín , Lina’s cousin. Rosie has been following Lucas’s social media, hoping to meet him at Lina’s wedding, which he did not attend. Lucas is friendly and charming, and when he realizes Rosie is uncomfortable, he insists she stay in the apartment and he go to a hotel. She reassures herself that the two will not meet again.

The next day, Rosie prepares to visit her father in Philadelphia, hoping to tell him and her younger brother, Olly, that she has left her engineering job to pursue writing and has recently been offered a publishing deal. She is an avid reader-turned-writer of romance novels but knows her father is proud of her stable engineering career. She spots Lucas in a diner and realizes he slept there. The two chat over breakfast, and Rosie shares her anxieties about her career change, while Lucas is cagey about why he left Spain for a three-month trip to the United States (explaining his absence from Lina’s wedding). Later, Rosie notices her brother, Olly, avoiding discussion of work and finds herself unable to tell their father about her career change when he is clearly worried about Olly.

Upon her return to New York, Rosie and Lucas decide to share Lina’s apartment—without notifying Lina, as she is on her honeymoon. They are both attracted to each other, but each privately decides to stay friends. They befriend Lina’s neighbor, Adele, an older woman living with dementia. Lucas impresses Rosie with his cooking. After a frustrating day arguing with her landlord over apartment repairs, Rosie confesses that she has barely written any of her book, which is due in eight weeks. Lucas overhears Rosie on the phone with Lina, pondering a return to dating in the hopes of inspiring Rosie’s manuscript. She is pessimistic about this, as her dating history is full of disappointment. Lucas offers to be her partner in a dating experiment, constructing ideal dates so Rosie will not have to involve strangers. Because she still has a crush on him, Rosie agrees.

Lucas plans their first date to a record store, where Rosie selects ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” for their soundtrack. They dance and flirt but are soon interrupted when a rat comes out of a record player box. Their second date involves making pizza, during which Lucas explains that his surfing career is over because he injured his leg. The pizzas burn as the two almost kiss. Lucas castigates himself for failing to be the perfect boyfriend, but Rosie assures him that he surpasses her exes. Meanwhile, she continues to worry about Olly, who has a job at a nightclub with men who appear threatening to his safety.

Lina eventually returns, stunned and disappointed to find that Rosie and Lucas are living together and said nothing. She worries Lucas will hurt her best friend with a casual relationship, but they assure her that they are just friends. She confides to Rosie that her family is worried about Lucas, leading Rosie to realize she is the only one who knows about his accident and related panic attacks. Adele’s daughter, Alexia, comes over for dinner and suggests to Lucas that he train as a chef, but he dismisses the idea.

Rosie and Lucas attend a Halloween masquerade ball with Lina and her husband, Aaron. When Rosie is soaked by a stranger’s drink, Lucas helps her clean up, and the two nearly pursue the sexual attraction between them until Lina interrupts. Lucas is clearly jealous when he sees another man ask Rosie out, and she also feels conflicted. He softens when he learns she organized the arrival of his sister, Charo, and dog, Taco, to help him with his panic attacks. Meanwhile, Rosie’s writing improves, inspired by her dates with Lucas.

During Rosie and Lucas’s third date, Rosie confesses her romantic attraction. They embrace but are interrupted when Olly begs Rosie for help. Rosie and Lucas learn that Olly has been working at an adult entertainment club. They rescue him from the club’s cruel owners, and Lucas is injured in a scuffle—leading Rosie to feel guilty. Rosie and Lucas slowly become a couple. She returns to her repaired apartment but soon summons Lucas. Lucas claims he does not deserve her as a man with no career prospects but reciprocates her love. They have sex and spend Lucas’s last week in New York together. Rosie also finishes her book and thanks Lucas for his help.

Rosie follows Lucas to the airport, confessing her love and offering to go to Spain with him—but he refuses her offer. He still sees himself as unworthy of her devotion. Rosie is devastated, and Lina apologizes for not supporting her sooner. Lina reads Rosie’s book and calls Lucas, telling him that as angry as she is at him for hurting Rosie, Rosie’s book is proof of his worth.

On New Year’s Eve, a pessimistic Rosie agrees to attend a party with Lina and Aaron. Lucas surprises her at the stroke of midnight, explaining that he felt unworthy of her but now understands that he needs to face his past. He is seeking therapy and plans to pursue culinary school in New York to be with her. Overjoyed, Rosie accepts his offer. In the Epilogue, Lucas arrives in New York a year later, ready to move in with Rosie and begin his new life. 

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan , Goodreads , PopSugar , and more! From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception , the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He'll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas's time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ SIMON SCHUSTER (September 2, 2022)
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The American Roommate Experiment Summary & Study Guide Description

The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Armas, Elena. The American Roommate Experiment . Simon & Schuster, 2022.

When the ceiling of Rosie Graham’s apartment caves in, she takes advantage of her best friend’s spare key. Lina is on her honeymoon with her husband, Aaron, and is not replying to Rosie’s frenzied calls. As Rosie is settling into Lina’s studio apartment, someone else tries to get in. Rosie assumes it is a robber and calls the police. It turns out to be Lina’s cousin, Lucas Martín, to whom Lina promised the apartment for a few weeks.

Rosie feels starstruck meeting Lucas: her Instagram crush. She was disappointed when Lucas did not attend Lina and Aaron’s wedding. Lucas is a surfer recovering from a recent injury. Lucas insists Rosie remain in the apartment while he goes to a hotel. Rosie finds him the next morning sleeping inside a diner. She was on her way to Dad’s place to meet her brother, Olly, who she is worried about. When Lucas wakes, they chat. He says he cannot go to a hotel because he is waiting on a credit card replacement. Rosie tells him how she recently quit her engineering job to start a career as a romance writer.

After a brief visit to Dad’s, Rosie returns home to find Lucas cooking. Rosie feels awkward and shy. He proposes they live together for the duration of his stay. He will go out sightseeing while Rosie writes during the day Rosie consents. After dinner, they watch TV together. Rosie picks a vampire show for them.

The next day, Rosie’s writing is interrupted by a strange noise outside. Adele, Lina’s elderly neighbor who suffers from Alzheimer’s, is attempting to move furniture by herself. Lucas comes to the rescue. He does not contradict Adele when she calls him Mateo: her dead husband's name.

Lucas asks Rosie for a hug afterwards. Adele reminds him of his grandfather, who also had Alzheimer’s. Lucas cooks them dinner. They watch their show.

The next day, Lucas bumps into Rosie outside Lina’s apartment after sightseeing. He accompanies her to see her landlord about the damage to her apartment. The contractor, Aiden, is handsome and kind. Rosie breaks down that night about the chaotic state of her life. Lucas reassures her that it is okay to lose control sometimes.

The following day, Rosie is too distracted thinking about Lucas to write. When Lina finally calls, Rosie conceals that she is staying with Lucas at Lina’s place. Lucas interrupts the call to present Rosie with cronuts: the food she was craving the night before. He asks her about her exes. She tells him about some of the toxic men she has dated. Lucas suggests he be Rosie’s experimental boyfriend. He hopes it might help her get over her writer’s block. They agree to go on four dates. Lucas promises not to fall in love with Rosie.

One week later, Lucas takes Rosie on their first date to a record store. He has her pick out their soundtrack. Rosie selects ABBA’s Dancing Queen, which they dance to together in Lina’s apartment. They are interrupted by the sight of a rat. Lucas catches it in a box. Just then, a woman knocks on the door. It is Alexia, Adele’s daughter. Alexia thanks Lucas for checking in on Adele every day.

Olly does not show up to Dad’s but waits for Rosie at the train station afterwards. He has a black eye and explains that he is a stripper. His boss arrives and takes him away in a car. Rosie is distressed when she gets home, so Lucas hugs her.

The next evening is Rosie and Lucas’ second date. Lucas takes her to Alessandro’s: the pizza place across the street. It is empty except for a path of candles lighting the way to the kitchen. Lucas explains that they are cooking pizzas for their date since he knows how much Rosie likes watching him cook. They flirt and nearly kiss before they notice their pizzas are burning. Back at Lina’s, Rosie orders them takeout. Lucas is embarrassed by his failed date.

Lucas emerges from the shower the next morning to find a very angry Lina accusing him of sleeping with her best friend. Rosie does her best to explain the situation. The women leave for their favorite café to chat. Lina warns Rosie that Lucas is an expert charmer. Meanwhile, Lucas reassures Aaron he would never hurt Rosie. That evening, Lucas cooks dinner for Rosie, Alexia, and Adele. Alexia—a top chef—insists that Lucas is an incredible cook.

Aaron and Lina invite Lucas and Rosie to a Masquerade Ball. Lucas and Rosie go as their favorite couple from their vampire show. Lucas feels protective of Rosie at the ball and goes with her to the bathroom when someone spills a drink on her. Lucas closes his eyes while Rosie changes. She orders him to open them. He starts touching her but is interrupted by Lina’s arrival. Rosie exits the stall alone to save face.

A week later, Rosie is disappointed that her bathroom rendezvous with Lucas changed nothing between them. While writing in her café, she sees Aiden. Lucas shows up just as Aiden is asking Rosie out on a date. Rosie declines his offer.

As they are walking back to Lina’s, Lucas is faced with his sister, Charo, and his dog, Taco. Rosie secretly arranged for them to surprise Lucas, moving him deeply.

Lucas takes Rosie to Alexia’s restaurant for their next date. After a delicious dinner, they head to the rooftop greenhouse. Lucas serves Rosie the exact cake from Aaron and Lina’s wedding. He explains that he wanted to recreate the atmosphere since Rosie once said she was sorry they did not meet then. When it starts raining, Lucas offers Rosie his jacket. She cries. She tells him she wants him to want her in the same way. They kiss. As they discuss having sex, Olly calls. He needs them to pick him up from the nightclub he works there.

Lucas and Rosie rush to the nightclub. Rosie makes Lucas promise not to get into a fight. Olly’s boss, Jimmy, does not want to let Olly leave. Jimmy trips Lucas, making him fall on his injured knee. Rosie threatens to beat Jimmy up with her purse. Lucas tells her to let it go. The trio escapes.

That night, Olly explains that he got into stripping to be near a girl but now wants no part of that life. He sleeps on the couch while Lucas and Rosie take the bed. As they lie together, Lucas relives the gruesome details of his surfing accident. Rosie reassures him that he is not broken, only different.

After dropping Olly off at Dad’s, Rosie returns home to find Lucas masturbating in the shower. She masturbates with him. Later that day, Lucas and Lina help Rosie move back into her now-repaired apartment. That night, Rosie texts Lucas to tell him she misses him. He arrives at her apartment shortly after. They have sex.

The next morning, Lucas leaves for his flight back to Spain without saying goodbye. Rosie shows up at the airport and offers to leave with him. Lucas says that she should not uproot her life just for him, then leaves.

Heartbroken, Rosie takes comfort in spending time with her family and Lina. She finishes her book, in which Lina recognizes traces of Lucas. Lina calls Lucas to call him an idiot and explains that Rosie is in love with him.

Months later, Lucas shows up at a New Year’s Eve Party to profess his love to Rosie. He explains that he wanted to take time to work on himself in order to be his best possible self for her. He requests their song, Dancing Queen, and asks her to be his girlfriend. Rosie says yes. Lucas and Rosie date long-distance for a year while Lucas waits for his acceptance into a New York City culinary school. He surprises Rosie by arriving a day earlier than he said he would.

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Move over, Lina and Aaron! There's a brand new book couple coming, and we can't get enough of them. Fans have been counting down the days until the follow-up to Elena Armas' The Spanish Love Deception — aka The American Roommate Experiment — is released, and now the wait is almost over for the book that'll absolutely make you wish you were moving in with your best friend's hot cousin.

Cosmopolitan has an exclusive first look at The American Roommate Experiment , which will be released on September 6, 2022. But before you find out what Rosie and Lucas are up to, here’s the official book description from Atria Books :

"From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception , the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline."

Before you run to preorder the sequel and start a re-read of The Spanish Love Deception , don’t miss out on the exclusive excerpt below. Check it out!

An Excerpt From The American Roommate Experiment By Elena Armas

“You really didn’t need to prepare the couch for me, Rosie.”

Lucas’s voice came from somewhere behind me. I was ready to tell him he had another thing coming if he thought he’d be sleeping on the couch again, that I was preparing it for myself, but the words died on the tip of my tongue when I turned and encountered the sight before me.

It wasn’t naked calves.

It was far, far better than that.

It was Lucas. In sweatpants— gray sweatpants—and a thin cotton tee.

But the sweatpants .

They hung low on his hips, and the fabric clung to his legs. His oh-so-not-naked calves. And his two strong-looking thighs. And those much, much more interesting parts that hung right in between.

And I — Jesus , what the hell was I doing?

There were about a hundred rules in the Roommate Handbook for Civil and Not Creepy Cohabitation that I might have broken by looking at his crotch. Even through the fabric of his sweats. Which wasn’t leaving much to my—

Feeling my cheeks flaming hot, I dragged my gaze back to his face.

Lucas was smiling. Grinning, really. As big as I’d ever seen.

“Sorry,” I breathed out, the blush I knew was covering my face spreading throughout my whole body. “Did you . . . hum . . . Did you say something?”

He crossed his arms over his chest and the cotton of his shirt stretched. Goddammit. “I said many things, if I’m being honest.”

“Oh, okay.” I swallowed. “Anything . . . important that we should discuss?”

He pointed behind me. “Yeah, that you’re not sleeping there. But that’s not open for discussion.”

“Why not?” I frowned. “It was part of the deal.”

Lucas drifted in my direction. Leisurely, as if he had all the time in the world to stroll across the small studio. He stopped only when he was right in front of me.

“Rosie,” he said in a low, warning voice that made my stomach flop for some reason. “Take the bed.” He smiled, but it wasn’t lighthearted and fun. “Don’t make me fight you over this. Because I will.”

How? That part of me that had my stomach flip-flopping wanted to ask him. How would you fight me exactly?

But instead, I murmured, “Fine.” I decamped to the bed on the other side of the studio. I huffed as I threw the covers back and slipped in. “We’ll see who takes it tomorrow night.”

“We’ll see,” he added right before turning the lights off. “Roomie.”

I heard Lucas ruffle with his blankets, and I forced my eyelids shut so I wouldn’t search for his shape in the dark. So I wouldn’t make a big deal out of this. Lucas Martín, sleeping a few feet away from me. In his outrageous gray sweatpants.

“Rosie?” he called, in what couldn’t have been more than a minute later. “Are you still awake?”

My eyelids lifted. “Yeah.”

I laughed lightly. “It’s only been about . . . sixty-five seconds since we turned the lights off, so I’d be surprised if you were sound asleep.”

“I could be narcoleptic for all you know, smarty-pants.”

“Nah,” he answered, and I had no choice but to smile at the ceiling. “Hey, Rosie?”

Turning onto my side, I stared in the direction of the couch. I could barely make him in the dark, but I still looked. “Yes, Lucas?”

“How many pages away from your dream are you?”

I thought about all the words I hadn’t written today. About how I’ll need to recalculate my daily goal again. Just like I had to do every day.

“Writers count in words and not pages.”

I heard a deep hmmm , before he countered, “So how many words away from your dream, then?”

Many . “Still a few.”

Only meeting a word count wasn’t the problem, wasn’t it? It was about so much more than just that. It was about writing. Inspiration. Or the lack of both things.

Neither of us said anything for a long time and then, when I was no longer sure whether he was asleep or not, I heard him say, “ Buenas noches , Rosie.”

Copyright © 2022 by Elena Armas. From THE AMERICAN ROOMMATE EXPERIMENT: A Novel by Elena Armas. Reprinted by permission of Atria Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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