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“Very good,” Mia said, leaning over the balcony. “I’ve just been doing some physio on my client,” she said, with a nod in my direction.
“How’s the knee?” Lucas asked.
“Getting much better, thanks,” I said.
“Well enjoy watching us suffer,” he said, with a smirk in our direction as he grabbed a workout bag from the trunk of the car and headed straight down to the beach.
“Oh we will,” Mia said just to me, and we both giggled.
Then the Saints’ boys started to arrive. We were so close I could hear the coach and trainers ordering them to get a move on, and my heart rate went up as I spotted the beautiful, tall, dynamic presence of The Russian.
“They hate the beach workout,” Mia said, with a smile. “Did the Suns do it?”
“Once a week,” I said. “It’s agony, but good if you’ve got injuries. Running in the water helps, as you know.”
“Personally, I love it, you must come by again around this time,” she teased. “I’m sure we can find something to do even if you don’t need physio!”
“We would look much more the part if we were sitting here sipping Martinis,” I said.
Mia’s eyes lit up. “Oh yes. We should have a WAGS cocktail party on beach training day.”
“Won’t the coach be cheesed off if we’re sitting up here distracting them?” I said.
“Then we won’t distract them of course,” she said, with almost an evil grin. “Besides, they should be focussing on the task at hand.”
“Agreed,” I said, expecting to get a cocktail party invitation anytime in the next few weeks. A little red sports car pulled up and Alice alighted, waving up to us.
“Hey,” she said to us as Mia buzzed her in down below. She was obviously on the gate VIP list since she’d driven straight through. She came upstairs in her business wear.
“Look at you two workout gals,” she said, eyeing off our sportswear. Alice gave Mia a kiss on the cheek and did the same for me, which was very sweet.
“How did you get an early mark from work?” Mia asked, narrowing her eyes, as she jumped up to grab a drink for Alice.
Alice slid onto a chair beside Mia and let out a long breath as she watched the guys run out of the surf. “Marvellous.”
I giggled beside her like I was part of a secret Saints watching club.
“The boss, Jim, is away today, so while the boss is away, the mice play,” she said, accepting the drink and thanking Mia. “Besides, I’ve done my share of weekend match days to steal back a few hours.”
The Saints were wet, their bathers were wet, their chests were wet and their tanned torsos gleaming.
I sighed. “So good.”
“So good,” Mia repeated and nodded.
“You could sell tickets to this,” Alice suggested to Mia.
“Enterprising,” she agreed. “But we’re going to have a girls’ cocktail party instead, right here, one training afternoon just for the WAGS. It was Carla’s suggestion.”
I shrugged. “I can’t take all the credit, I drew inspiration from out there.”
“You’re working wonders on The Russian,” Alice said, “he seems sort of calmer. Sasha has worked with him for much longer than me but she said he is definitely happier. She keeps dropping your name to get a reaction.”
“Really?” I grinned, pleased to be working some magic on him. “What sort of reaction?”
“He gets this lovey-dovey look on his face ... I think it is very sweet but you know how Sasha loves to stir him.”
“Ha, that’s funny,” I said, laughing. “But it’s early days yet, I’m sure he’ll go back to being his usual self in no time.”
