My eyes got big. “12 to 4? Can we even come back from that?” I tried to do some quick math. There were 23 events. One point each. “Isn’t 12 wins an insurmountable lead?”
“The final event is 5 points,” said Tanner, “which means there are 27 points total. So we still have a chance, but we can only lose one more event from here on out. And no matter what, we have to win the finale.”
“Or what?” I pulled him to the side out of earshot from the rest of our team. “I’m literally going to die if you don’t tell me what happens to the losing princess.”
“Cole’s going to bang you.”
What?!“But he said there were no strings attached when he offered me the princess suite!”
“Well, he lied.”
“Damn it! He’s such an asshole.”
Tanner nodded. “Tell me about it.”
“Well, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to sit back and let him win? Or are you going to save me?”
“This feels like a trap.”
“What? Why?”
“Because a week ago I saved you from getting fucked by Cole. And then you told me that you never wanted to see my face again.”
“You didn’t save me. I drew the right card. And anyway, that was different.”
He raised a questioning eyebrow.
“It was! I hadn’t seen you for months. And then you just showed up and started messing with my life. It also didn’t help that I was super-duper drunk at the time and extremely horny.”Shit!Why did I tell him that I was horny? “I mean, I was horny at the time. I’m not horny anymore. Not because I masturbated. Fine, Imighthave taken a peek at Chastity’s porn collection. But nothing happened.”Why am I still talking!?Every word I said was making this so much worse.
Tanner laughed at me.
“It’s not funny! I was so mad at you.”
He reached out and ran his fingers through my hair. “Was?”
I slowly nodded. Yeah…was. It was hard to be mad at him when he was standing here smiling at me.
“So…you’re saying that I shouldn’t save you from Cole again?”
“What? No! You should absolutely save me. I’m so tired of him making me get naked at the worst times.”
Tanner’s face got serious at the mention of Cole getting me naked.
I couldn’t help but smile. It really seemed like Tanner was into me. Was that why he had come back? So that we could give it another shot?
“Why are you smiling?” he asked.
“I’m just happy to have you on my team. Now are you going to save me from Cole?”
“And how do you expect me to do that?” he asked.
“I don’t know! You keep pretending like you can do magic. How about you use some of that?”
“Okay.”
Okay?He said it so confidently. Like he would actually use magic to make us win.
“Let’s do this.” He took my hand and led me back to the prize wheel.
