The Roommate's Confession
A Forbidden Rivalry, Grumpy-Sunshine Pairing Contemporary RomanceBy Emmy Sutton
Length7h 49m
About this audiobook
The mug on the drying rack has a crack running rim to base like a river on a map. Oliver Chen stares at it for a full seven seconds before he registers the pan in the sink - grease congealed, eggshell stuck to the rim - which is the third one this week, and which belongs to a man who crashed on his couch three weeks ago and has not left.
What stops him is not the pan. It is the note folded into a neat square and propped against the salt shaker, in ballpoint capitals by somebody who learned cursive and rejected it.
*LOVE YOU BRO. SORRY ABOUT THE BASS.*
Derek. Who has perfect teeth and an Instagram gym membership, who broke up with Mateo Rivera six months ago, and who has apparently been in this kitchen while Oliver was at work.
Oliver is twenty-eight, a graphic designer, and by his own account principled rather than rigid. His sister Claire texts him before eight in the morning to tell him he is rigid. Mateo plays the same four chords for forty-seven minutes at a stretch, chews guitar picks until they fray, and calls him roomie instead of his name.
They met at a house show in Bushwick. Mateo needed a room. Oliver said yes before he thought about it.
What they eventually agree to is a pact with ground rules, because Mateo googled how not to ruin a good thing at three in the morning and came back with bullet points. First rule, honesty, with nothing hidden. And two weeks of telling nobody, because they want to work out what this is before anyone else gets to weigh in.
Two weeks is a long time in a building where the walls are thin and everybody has a phone.
Someone is leaving pink notes under Oliver's door. Someone has been standing outside his building at dawn. Someone sits down at a family dinner and plays a saved voicemail out loud like a grenade pulled from a pocket. And it is not Derek.
A Brooklyn roommates-to-lovers romance between two men - closed-door, with a real fight about honesty rather than a misunderstanding, an ex who will not hand back the key, a friend who is far more dangerous than the ex, and a song called Kitchen Light that only one of them knows is about him.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (1.4K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Quiet War of the Coffee Pot
2Chapter 2 - Sand in Places Sand Shouldn’t Go
3Chapter 3 - The Decoy
4Chapter 4 - Blackout Heartbeat
5Chapter 5 - The Other Key
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6Chapter 6 - The Advice That Backfires
7Chapter 7 - The Apology Chord
8Chapter 8 - The Three AM Intrusion
9Chapter 9 - The Morning After the Claim
10Chapter 10 - The Note I Can’t Unwrite
11Chapter 11 - The Pact
12Chapter 12 - The Secret in Plain Sight
13Chapter 13 - The Hunt
14Chapter 14 - Crossfire
15Chapter 15 - Family Dinner Test
16Chapter 16 - The Voicemail
17Chapter 17 - The Lie Wins
18Chapter 18 - The Longest Hour
19Chapter 19 - The Truth I Needed to Hear
20Chapter 20 - The Grand Gesture
21Chapter 21 - Aftermath and a New Key
22Chapter 22 - The Sister’s Blessing
23Chapter 23 - The Song Finished
24Chapter 24 - Roommates No More
25The End
26About the Author
27Also by Emmy Sutton
28Acknowledgements
29A Note from the Author
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