Page 16 of The Forever Vault

“Forget him for a minute, Luke. If we’re the team that wants to hang together, then let’s make the best of it.”

I’d do my best to take O’s words to heart because the team was what mattered. But I knew I had to tell Shane, because Woodward needed the heads up. They needed to know we had an apparent homophobic piece of shit as an Olympic teammate.

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Camden

“Everything okay, tiger? You sound stressed? Wanna make this a video chat and release some tension?”

“Sorry, Cam, maybe in a few minutes, but I need to vent.”

Fuck, I knew something was wrong.

“I don’t know what to do, Cam. Well, I know what to do, but it sucks it’s even happening.”

“Okay, you need to just spit it out because I’m imagining a lot of really bad things.”

“Preston Hayes, you know him?”

“Not well. A little young for my tastes.”

“Well, if you said something like that to his face, he’d probably call you a fag.”

“Did he say something to you?” I sat up in bed, kicking off the covers.

“Not to me, but he may have said it to O. I think so anyway. He didn’t want to hang with the team today because we’re all gay gay gay and he didn’t want us to turn him gay or some bullshit. I haven’t dealt with this in so long. I can’t believe I have to deal with it here.” Luke sighed. “It’s fucked up.”

“Well, you know what you have to do. I’d talk to Shane and Woodward. They need to know. It’s not fair to you, Orion, or Ezra.”

“And Miles too, apparently.”

“Jesus, you guys are gay as fuck. That means Alex and Preston are the only straights on the last three teams, though I’m not so sure about Preston.”

“What do you mean?”

“That kind of anger’s obviously hiding something.”

“Well, whatever’s happening with him, I can’t have him spouting off whenever he feels the need.”

“I know.” I let a comfortable silence linger, though my earlier horniness hadn’t dissipated. “You wanna watch me nut on my face?”

Hearing Luke’s laughter made me glad I offered.

“Fuuuck. Yes, I want to see that.”

* * *

It was nice to sleep in, but my mind immediately went back to last night’s conversation. I couldn’t believe the team would have to deal with a homophobe. It kind of seemed like nothing was going quite our way this time. It hurt a little more knowing Luke would have to deal with it without me there to back him up.

I did my best with last night’s performance. But our fuckfest wasn’t enough to distract me, so my self-facial would only help Luke so much. At the very least, maybe it helped him fall asleep. I sent him a quick text to let him know I was thinking about him, then got up to start the shower. I wiped my face with a shirt last night, but I needed to give it a good rinse before we headed out today. I took a piss while the water warmed up, then opened the glass door to step into the torrent coming from above.

Everything about this hotel was gorgeous, and that included the bathroom. Natural light filtered in from tiny windows along the top of the east wall. If Luke ever joined us here, there was plenty of room in the shower for two. I started to harden at the thought of shower sex with him. After four years together, our sex life was still everything I wanted it to be. If we weren’t working or working out, we were most likely fucking.

I ran my fingers down my shaft, squeezing the head.

“Mornin’, sugar!”

“Jesus, Colton. Knock much?!” I turned my body away from the door as he entered, followed by Zeph.