“It’s because we’ll be team co-captains who not only can’t get along, but?—”
“Make the locker room bench sing?”
My eyes fell shut. Oh my God, he couldn’t even talk about the hottest sex of our lives without sounding awkward.
“Yeah, that,” I said.
I paused as my mind drifted, remembering the moment. The taste of Erik’s sweet lips returned along with the feeling of his hard body pressed against mine. His even harder cock might as well have brushed against my leg in that moment. I’d lost myself so much I could barely claw my way back.
“You’re afraid we’re going to wind up fucking again,” he said.
“No, I’m not.”
“Seriously?”
“Dead serious. I’ve even offered to hit the sheets with you again. That ought to prove it. You’re the one playing hard to get, bro.”
“You’re scared of something, Kayden. Why don’t you go ahead and tell me what’s got you quaking in your boots?”
“I’m not scared of shit.”
“If you want sex so badly, that can be arranged. You know what you’ve got to do.”
“You’re really going to hold me to your little standards, huh?” I heard the plaintive tone in my own voice.
Erik nodded.
“You’re impossible.”
“I think I know what’s really going on here. To get sex from me, you’ve got to confront what you’re really afraid of.”
I turned away from him. Saying what I really felt would ruin everything. Even I knew better than that.
“By the way,” he said, “I’m not the impossible one here. The team offered you a great opportunity, and you’re about to throw it back in their faces.”
“I’m not about to—wait, you’re happy about this?”
“I never said I was happy, but I’ll go along with it. You know why? Because I’m willing to put the Larkin Lions above our differences, and above…whatever else is going on between us.”
“You wouldn’t dare come right out and say what that something is, huh?”
“Um, excuse me, but I’m the one who’s offered to explore that something. I’m the one refusing sex, no matter how badly I wanted it, until that happens.”
Right again. Erik was on a roll. Like before, I couldn’t admit that he’d had a point about anything. That was suicide when you’re trying to claim the team’s top spot.
“So, you do want it, too, huh?” I asked.
“Yeah. I have some willpower at least. Anyway, is that what this is all about?”
“Huh?”
“You’re playing dumb now, Kayden. That’s understandable. You’ve got loads of experience at it.”
I squeezed my fists and clenched my teeth.
“If you’ve got a point, bro,” I said, “you’d better get to it in a big fucking hurry.”
“You know what’ll happen if we’re co-captains, don’t you? We’ll never get away from one another. You’re going to have to care what I think. I’ll pretend to care what you think. If you screw up, you’ll hear about it from me. It would be easier for you to just walk away from this completely, but you won’t. You know why?”
