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“I’ve never been a great swimmer,” he said. “I’ve gotten competent at it over the years, and it’s become a huge part of my training for football. My muscles are stronger and I am more agile now.”
“You let go of whatever you’re feeling when you swim?” My statement came out as a question.
He sucked in a breath and my fingers trembled against his chest.
“As much as possible,” he said, and the side of his mouth tugged up.
He drifted his hand from my backside and dragged it over my arm, the familiar caress sending chills through me. We hadn’t said anything for a while. Staying in his embrace, I glided my fingers from his belly button and up to his nipples until they stiffened like mine had because of him. Ever since he’d first touched me. I’d been weak. The self-loathing in Chase’s face when he’d told me about his promiscuity replayed in my mind and I couldn’t discount how important it was for he and I to have sex when our hormones weren’t consuming us. I had to be strong for the both of us. I didn’t want to disrupt Chase’s goal. I laid my hand flat against his chest again.
Chapter 11
Chase
“What’s good?” Gavin asked, entering the living room the following
day. He wiped his pillow wrinkled face with the sides of his hands. He’d slept for about three hours after he’d come from La Floridita. He rested on his sofa and put his thermos on top of his fold-up table. Bri had left for work at the Paloma hours ago, and even I felt like it was too empty in here, especially since Joel and Rylan were probably still asleep. Pierce was working twelve hours today. I recalled the times when I’d pulled those hours with he and Brody.
“Pierce networked for me at a meeting he and his Mr. Pruitt had in Miami, and a potential employer emailed me about possibly taking on a job. I’ve been reading the branding guidelines since I first woke up,” I told him, shooting him a look.
Gavin lowered the newspaper down to his lap. “Are you feeling it?”
“The branding guidelines are kinda rigid, but I can design the images that the company wants for its promotional goals.” I shrugged. “And the pay is right. It’s the standard half upfront and half after the completion of the project.”
He nodded. “Oh, and here comes the contract!” I opened up my new email.
He gave a dry chuckle. “Now, let’s see how you’re really feeling it once you’ve read that contract!”
As I started to read the first paragraph, Gavin began reading the paper again. About two hours later, and after a lot of side notes on my computer’s notepad, I took in a breath and reclined on the sofa. When I turned my head, Gavin raised a bushy brow at me. “The contract is kinda verbose.” I huffed. “I’m gonna have Pierce look this over and tell me what he thinks.”
With an amused expression, he went to the kitchen. “You want sugar with your coffee?” Gavin called out from the kitchen.
“Done,” he replied.
Minutes later, he returned with our mugs of coffee. My phone vibrated, and there was an alert of a new message against the background picture of Beth and Bri with Tainted Virtue that she’d finally emailed me yesterday. It was unlikely that I’d ever change my screensaver.
Beth: Have plans 2nite?
I slid my eyes to the side, and with a shy expression, Gavin put his headphones on as if I was actually talking to Beth over the phone. I messaged her back.
Me: Am I gonna get lucky 2nite? =)
Beth: Very. Brianna and I are taking you out 2 La Floridita.
After I tossed my phone the couch near me, I composed an email to Pierce and attached the contract, in addition to my questions in the body of the email, so I could have some answers by tomorrow if he had time to read it at the Paloma. I hadn’t known that Pierce had gotten my name out their with other business professionals. While I was all for earning some extra cash, I wasn’t agreeing to anything unless I understood all of the stipulations.
***
Beth didn’t need to stand on tiptoes in order for me to plant her a kiss on the mouth tonight. She was in the black heels I’d seen her in before that gave extra definition to her luscious legs. Her hair was in some up-do that bared delicate neck.
“Now that should’ve been how my day started,” I said as Bri went upstairs to shower and get dressed.
I cupped her ass and a flush swept over her body. I lifted her black skirt up and found that, unlike Saturday, she was wearing a thong. Which would make it perfect to grab onto her rear as I lodged into her to the hilt. The image flashed through my mind, arousing me.
After a beat, Beth stared at me with those luminous azure eyes. “It may not be the only way your night ends,” she teased me. I rained kisses on her face and she took my hand, bringing me into the living room with her. When we neared the couch that we’d sat on last weekend, I spanked her ass, recalling how good it felt to palm her. Chuckling, Beth lifted up her skirt, showing me her rounded cheeks. There was no sin better than Beth’s bare skin.
Beth linked her arms with Brianna as we entered the bar. I could tell that Gavin wanted to be with the rest of us instead of working, but he didn’t say so.
“I am gonna clock in,” he told us, and headed to the back of the bar.
