Page 45 of What About Us

But the guys start to laugh around me, and I can’t help but join them even as my face flames with embarrassment.

“I like you,” Cooper says when he’s caught his breath. “You fit in just fine.”

“What did I miss?” Britney asks as she comes running our way. “There’s laughter. I need to know why.”

“I made a ‘That’s what she said’ joke that was not terribly appropriate.”

“Oh good, those are the best kind,” she replies with a wink.

“Okay, Xander, it’s time for wall sits.”

He’s watching me, a half smile on his face, hands on his hips. Without a word, he walks to the wall and assumes the position, sitting against it as if he’s in a chair.

This exercise sucks.

I hate it.

But Cooper walks over and joins Xander with a smile.

“This’ll make the quads burn,” he says, then catches Britney around the waist and pulls her into his lap. “Hey, sugar.”

She grins and loops her arms around his neck and kisses his cheek.

I gasp when Xander grabs my hand and tugs me into his lap, and I push against his chest.

“No way, I’m too heavy.”

“Psh, as if.”

“I’m serious, Xander, I don’t want to hurt your knee.”

He shifts my butt onto the uninjured side, pulls me close to his pelvis, and buries his face in my neck.

“Stop squirming, wildcat. I finally got my hands on you.”

My heart is hammering. I feel like a hummingbird about to have a freaking heart attack.

Do hummingbirds have heart attacks?

I don’t know, but if they do, this is what it must feel like.

“I can’t have you getting hurt.”

He has the audacity to wink at me, and I swear to God and all the apostles that I feel his cock against my hip.

His very big, very hard cock.

And from the look on his too-handsome face, he knows that I know.

Finally, I call time on the exercise, and we all climb to our feet.

My core pulses, and I’m quite sure my panties are wet, and thank God I wore the scrubs and not leggings today. My nipples are painfully hard, and I have to walk right over to the desk for my water because it’s hot in here.

Is it hot in here?

I don’t think this is Xander simply being flirty or a nice guy anymore.

And I have no idea what to do about it. Or if there’s anything to do. Because maybe I’m totally off base, and then I’ll be humiliated all over again, and just the thought of that gives me hives.