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Jagger shifts his body and sits up, legs bent at the knee and arms draped over them. “All right. I’ll ask Neo and let you know.”
“So you’ll help me find out who’s stalking me?”
“I’ll talk to the guys, how about that?”
Of course. He can’t do anything without their approval. “Well, Crew is already supposed to be talking to you and Neo about it, so I guess we'll wait and see what the master says.” My eyes roll while Jagger picks up the bottle and takes a swig.
“The master?” He laughs. “Maybe I’m the master and Crew and Neo do what I say.”
“Doubtful.”
He winks at me, sending a wave of flutters through my stomach. “Like you said, we’ll wait and see.”
The next thing I know, around a dozen guys are running out onto the field. I gasp and giggle, watching them prance onto the field in adult diapers with navy and teal pacifiers in their mouths and baby bottles in their hands.
Jagger’s eyes follow my line of sight, and he grins along with me. “Told ya this would be fun.”
“Half-naked men dressed like babies? Definitely worth the climb up here.”
A guy in a black cloak with an air horn comes out on the field; I’m not sure if it’s Neo or Crew. “Here’s how this goes. You're split into two teams—navy and teal. The losing team attends tomorrow’s party at The Ruins in exactly what you’re wearing now—that means no changing, and if you shit your pants, you wear that shitty diaper. Any drinks you have tomorrow will only be permitted from the bottles in your hand. The winning team gets the night off and is free to drink whatever the fuck they want while enjoying the party.”
“So what is this? A game of football?”
“Sort of. It’s like flag football, but you steal the pacifier from the player instead of a flag. If they drop their bottle, they’re automatically out.”
“This is the most fucked-up thing I’ve ever seen.”
“Right,” he laughs, “my money is on the navy team, what about you?”
“I guess for the sake of disagreeing with you, I’ll go with teal.”
Jagger looks at me, brows raised. “Care to make a wager?”
“Depends. What are the stakes?”
“If navy wins, I get that kiss.”
“And if teal wins?”
“Your choice.”
I tap my index finger to my chin, thinking because, if I have a choice, it has to be something good.
I could ask for their help again, but that’s not something Jagger alone can give me. I need all three of them. Maybe I could tell him I want to be released from my duty to sit with them at lunch, but then again, that was Neo’s bargaining chip.
“I don’t know. How about if I get to bank my win?”
His shoulders dance. “Works for me. You’re going down anyway.”
We watch the guys hauling ass and making passes on the field, laughing our asses off in the process. It's freeing after spending so many minutes in the day, worrying and wondering what is going to happen to me next.
In the end, there’s only one winner. And that’s the navy team, which also means I lost to Jagger.
“There’s something refreshing about a win. Ya know?” he teases. “Well, you don’t. Because you lost.” He takes another swig of his whiskey. Once he’s got the top back on, he sets it back down, gets on his knees, and leans into me. “Now to cash in.”
“You really wanna kiss me? Of all the things you could’ve won, you chose a kiss?”
“I really do. Come on, Scar. Just a kiss. I showed you my secret place. I invited you here for your company. I’m being as nice as I can be.”
