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“Yeah, I’ll come,” Sid replies.

“Nah,” I mutter. “But you guys have fun. I’m gonna make my way over to the bar again.”

I watch as the four of them climb onto Sean’s yacht, and then I make a beeline straight to the bar, grabbing myself another beer.

I take a long pull from the bottle as Theo walks up beside me.

“Cheers,” he chuckles, clinking his beer bottle against mine.

“Cheers, man. Having fun tonight?”

Theo sighs. “I’d be having a hell of a lot more fun if the women surrounding me weren’t my fucking teammates.”

I throw my head back and laugh. “It’s the fucking offseason, Hughes. Give Addison a break, will you?”

He smirks. “If I gave her a break, she wouldn’t have any work left to do.”

“I don’t believe that for a second.”

“Think any of the women will give her some work this year?”

I think it over. “Based on what I’ve heard, Isla might. Clara, Aili, and Avery are all married, I believe. Not sure about anyone else, though.”

“You don’t think Zhuri gets out and has some fun?” Theo waggles his brows.

“I mean, I’ve never heard of her doing that,” I shrug.

“Could mean the Dragons had great PR, too,” he chuckles, and I can’t help but let my mind wander a bit.

Zhuri has clearly told me that just because she doesn’t exploit her sexuality doesn’t mean she’s not sexual. And a very heated game of truth or dare beer pong had her admitting that Jack was terrible in bed.

I wonder if she does let herself have fun, or if she’s too conscious of her image to have any type of fling.

But I imagine it anyway.

Zhuri is somebody who likes control, but I bet she’s an obedient thing in the bedroom. She’d listen to everything her partner tells her to do, seeking out praise for listening. She’d love to be taken care of, but would love even more to take care of you.

I let out a breath and push those thoughts from my head because,wow, I don’t need to fucking think about Zhuri in the bedroom.

Nico and Wes find me as the boat makes its way to shore again. Theo apparently left sometime while I was lost in my head.

“Cam!” Wes drawls. “Come out on the lake with us.”

“Supposedly, the boat has a better bar than the beach does,” Nico adds.

“You guys go ahead,” I reply, watching as our friends step off the boat. “I’m going to stay back here.”

“When did you become so borin’, Cap?” Wes shakes his head.

“Get the fuck outta here, Caddel.”

Nico and Wes relent, laughing as they jog over to the others, convincing them to get back on since I’m “too boring to do anything fun.”

Bastards.

Zhuri, though, looks over at me curiously and declines to join them, instead walking straight up to me.

“Yachts not your style, Cammy?” she teases.