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“You’re a dick, you know that.”
I winked at him as I pulled into the car park. “Ah, but I’myourdick.”
Kai coughed and turned his head away. “Oh, Dylan’s here.”
“Yep.” I turned off the engine. “Thought it was a good idea given the last time we were in public together…”
I didn’t need to finish my sentence. The way Kai stiffened told me that the memory of the kiss was as fresh for him as it was for me.
Judging by the speed at which he exited the car and loped over to Dylan, he still wasn’t ready to discuss it.
That’s fine,I told myself as I got out and joined them.That’s not what today is about.
No, today was about reminding Kai about us. Showing him that we could be together without any of the awkwardness. I wouldn’t push him to talk about it until he was ready.
We walked into the escape room, excitement already rising. Since giving our first one a shot a few years ago, Kai and I had made it our mission to take on as many as possible.
The game master came out to greet us, his customer service smile faltering as he spotted us. “Oh my god.”
Familiar with this reaction, I stepped forwards and extended my hand. “Hi, I’m Silas and this is Kai. We’ve got a game booked for eleven a.m.?”
Dylan smirked from his position against the wall. He always found it funny when I introduced us to people who recognised us. But it was a good way to remind them that we were just ordinary guys, there to do what anyone else was.
It worked too. The game master fixed his smile and shook my hand. “Lovely to meet you. Have you done an escape room before?”
“A few,” Kai hedged.
“Ah, a couple of experts.” The game master clapped his hands enthusiastically. “I’ll hold back on the hints then.”
“Please don’t,” I said in alarm. “We’ve done a lot, but notsuccessfully.”
“Because you don’t listen,” Kai said with an eye-roll. “If you listened, we’d get out faster.”
I arched my brows at him. “Or perhaps you should, you know, nottouch the light fittings.”
The game master winced. “Ah, you know you can’t do that here, right? If it doesn’t move instantly, it means—”
“It’s not supposed to.” Kai cringed. “It’s okay. I learned my lesson the hard way.”
“Phew. For a second there, you had me thinking I was going to have to tell one of my idols off.” The game master shot Kai a coy look that had me frowning.
Fortunately, Dylan took that as his cue. “On that note, I’m assuming all of you will be happy signing an NDA? Kai and Silas want to enjoy their time here without worrying about any information being leaked to the press.”
The bespectacled game master looked appalled. “We would never do that. What happens in the game room, stays in the game room.”
Dylan’s smile didn’t waver. “So signing the NDA won’t be an issue then, will it.”
I swear, Dylan got his way through stone-cold politeness more often than not. It only took a few minutes for the staff to be rounded up and their signatures given. Kai and I used the time to explore their range of EXIT games, pretending we couldn’t see the way the staff were all lingering to observe us.
“Have we played this one?” I held up the Airplane Crash one.
“Yep. Took us four hours before we completed it.”
I put it back on the shelf. Our obsession extended beyond playing in actual rooms. We had most of these board game versions to keep us occupied when travelling. “How about this one?”
By the time they were ready for us in the room, we’d picked up four games we hadn’t played. It was a small thing that we’d done a hundred times before, but it gave me hope that Kai really did want to keep spending time with me.
“I’ll take those,” Dylan said with a long-suffering sigh. “I’ll be out here if you need me.”
