Corvin blinked at him.He was wearing a cardigan over a T-shirt that readI read to get isekaied.It featured a cute cartoon geek and three hot elven-type warriors with lots of sexy muscles in just the right places.
“What happened?Why do you look like you’re running away from something?”
Theo took a deep breath.“I’m just running away from class, okay?”
“Liar.”
“Okay, fine.I’m sort of running away from… Look, can we talk about this elsewhere?”
Corvin adjusted his bedazzled shoulder bag.“Where were you thinking?”
Theo was about to suggest one of the cafés on campus, but the issue was that too many campus people hung out there.He didn’t want to be seen.Or overheard, for that matter.
“Okay, so I know a place, but you’ll have to keep an open mind.”
Corvin’s eyebrows climbed up his forehead.“Oh!Intrigue!I’m loving it.Let’s go, but I’m warning you, there better be enough there for my mind to need some diligent rimming before it gets stretched.”
Theo readjusted his bag.“You know what?You just might fit right in.”
Theo wasn’t sure which entrance they should be using.There was the front door, the one you could access from the sidewalk.Then there was the entrance through the garage.I’d use the employee entrance, but I don’t have my keycard anymore.
“It’s too hot to be doing all this walking,” Corvin said.
“Sorry about that.”
Corvin waved it off.“It’s fine.But it totally reaffirms that we can’t do anything too strenuous for my bachelor party.”
“You’re really doing that?”
Corvin rolled his eyes.“Mama—that’s Mike’s mom, not mine—says she cannot let me wed Mike without it.I don’t know.I think she just wants to have the opportunity to throw me a party.”
“But not Mike?This way.We’re going in through the garage.”
“I love underground stuff.And no, Mike said he’d save himself for the wedding and the after-party.Then I said it made me feel bad for being sort of okay with it, and he was all, ‘But it’s for my mom, and you should at least get a spa day out of it.’So I can’t get out of it now.”
“Sounds like a bother.”
They headed toward the client entrance, past the few cars that were there at this time of day on a Monday.
Corvin cackled.“Oh, you’re coming too.Mama said she wasn’t because she doesn’t want me to have to feel awkward while enjoying myself, but she made me give her names.”
“Ugh, fuck.”
“Spa day.”
“I’ve seen bachelor parties from…a different side, you might say.I don’t think you’ll get a spa day.Carl, hi.”
Carl, dressed in his black suit and tie and standing on guard near the client elevator, perked up.
“Oh, hi!What brings you here?”
Theo sighed.“Can we go up?Just to the bar.”
Carl cocked his head.“Sure.Is everything all right?”
“Aw, Theo, we’re all worried about you,” Corvin said, taking Theo’s right arm and hugging it like a stuffy.“Nice to meet you, Carl.”
Carl put on a brighter smile than he ever had.“Hey there.And you are?”
