“I do, I really do.” He kisses me. “You want to be a…” He screws his face up. “Couple?” he questions, and I laugh.
“How about we just see what happens? No labels.”
“What about Mouse?”
“Mouse?” I question confused. I mean, what is he thinking.
“Are we a ‘me and you’, or are we a ‘me and you and other guys’?”
“You want to see other guys now I’ve… broke you in?”
“God, no. I thought you would.”
“Okay, so no other guys. Just us.”
“Just us,” he repeats.
We lay and kiss and lick and stroke at each other till the alarm goes off and we have to move for the day. I send him in the shower alone, or we’re never gonna leave the room. I don’t normally do relationships, and after Lee, I closed down. But with Arch, we had a rough start, but it feels nice to have this, to actually have… time, don’t get me wrong, a quick fuck is fucking great, but this waking up with him in my arms… I like it. I like it more than I thought I would. I like it a lot.
He steps out of the bathroom, and I give him a quick kiss, grope his arse and snatch the towel off him as I walk in. I don’t shut the door, and I can feel his eyes on me the whole time. So, I make sure he gets a good show. I know I look good. I fucking work hard enough at it, but I can’t argue it feels great to have it appreciated for more than the time it takes for a fuck.
Arch starts to get nervous as we head down for breakfast, so I stop him in the corridor. “Hey, what’s going on?”
“I don’t know how to do this.” He gestures between us. “Ya know, in public.” He shakes his head. “I just don’t know if I’m ready for people to know when I haven’t got my mind around it yet myself.”
“So just be your usual… charming self.” I laugh.
“Fuck you!” he grumbles.
I nudge him. “Nailed it!”
He flips me off as we walk into the dining room, and I can’t help but laugh. I walk straight over to the table and sit down, and Arch goes to grab a drink. Mouse slides in beside me and slides his hand on my leg, and I lock eyes with Arch across the room. He’s seething, and as Mouse leans in to whisper in my ear, I see Arch clench his fists, and I think I like my princess a little jealous it looks hot on him. I send him a wink, and he relaxes slightly. I turn my head to Mouse and shake it. “Sorry, Mouse, I’m unavailable right now.”
“Later?” he questions.
I shake my head again. “No, sorry. For the foreseeable future.”
I push up from the table and stalk towards Arch, and his gaze softens, and he smiles as I walk straight up to him, lean down and whisper into his ear.
“Fuck, princess, jealous is a hot look on you.”
I lean over, grab the juice he just poured for himself, and walk back to the table. I sit on the opposite side to Mouse, and Arch slides in beside me a second later with another juice. I don’t look at him but slide my hand under the table and grip his leg. He takes a drink of his juice, but dead eyes Mouse, and I have to chuckle internally. He doesn’t want to come out yet, but he might as well have cocked his leg and pissed on me for all the subtlety he’s showing.
We eat and head out to the track. Some of the other team members join us, and they separate us into two groups. They put me and Arch on separate teams, so we don’t see each other all day. I throw myself into the drills they have us doing on the bikes. I love every single second. It’s an awesome day, and I love that I get to spend time with some of the guys on the team, and I quiz them every second. I guess I want to breatheeverything I can to get into the team, and I need to forge alliances, as that’s what these weeks are all about.
When I get back to the room, Arch is nowhere to be found, so I have a quick shower. I decide to run a bath. I know he will need it when he gets back, and I laugh at my thought process. A few minutes later, the door opens, and he storms in, pissed as all hell, and throws himself on the bed.
“Hey, you good?”
“No, that fucking sucked.”
“Hey, come here.”
He shakes his head, which is buried in the quilt.
“Hey, come have a bath. It will help.”
“How the fuck is a bath going to help?” He drops onto his back.
