Iamobsessed with her.
I don’t know how it happened so quickly, but she’s my favorite person to spend time with now. I can’t get enough of her.
That probably isn’t a good thing, though, when we’re co-captains with a no-fraternization clause literally written into our contracts, and I don’t think everything I feel toward her is exactly friendly.
This is brand new territory for me, but I’m not so dense that I can’t see it for what it is.
“Fuck,”Nico moans, head thrown back like he’s having an actual orgasm. “You outdid yourself with these, Z.”
Zhuri laughs from where she stands beside me, and the sound brings a smile to my face.
“It’s just a cookie, man.” Wes shakes his head.
Nico looks at him pointedly. “But it’s a cookie I can eat, and that doesn’t usually happen during team dinners.”
“All I had to do was switch out the chocolate chips I used,” Zhuri shrugs. “No big deal.”
She may think it’s no big deal, but it says a lot about her as a person that she was willing to accommodate Nico. We’ve always had teammates who bring whatever they want, even if it has tree nuts, and Nico knows to just avoid it.
Zhuri, though, went out of her way to make sure Nico could enjoy something he doesn’t usually get to, and I think that’s pretty fucking awesome.
“Cam,” she says, looking over at me. “We should do thethingnow.”
That piques Elisabet’s interest. “What thing?”
Zhuri waves her off. “It’s a surprise thing.”
“It’s an expensive thing,” I chuckle, and Zhuri shoots me a look.
“It was expensive because you decided we needed the expensive things for this thing.”
Isla rubs her head. “I can’t keep up right now.”
We both laugh as we send our friends out to the living room area with the rest of our team.
Zhuri comes with me to my guest bedroom, where I stashed the boxes of the items I insisted we have for this.
Might as well go all out, right?
“This might be overkill,” she laughs, grabbing a box from the floor. It has another smaller box inside of it since that’s where I placed the one Zhuri brought over with her. I wasn’t allowed to see that one.
I smile at her. “Come on, Hart. This’ll be good for team bonding.”
“I still think Nico might kill you over his.”
I laugh heartily because she’s right. Nico is going to be pissed, but it’ll be worth it.
“So what is this?” Sid asks as Z and I join everyone in the living room.
“Team superlatives,” Zhuri grins. “Cam and I thought it would be a fun thing to do for the team, and since Cameron is so extra, there are personalized trophies involved as well.”
“Don’t act like you didn’t have fun helping pick out the trophies, Z.” She smiles and shakes her head. “Well, I think we should get this started.”
“Start us off then, Cam.”
I reach into my box, and the first trophy I grab has a key on it.“Most likely to lock themself out of the housegoes to… Clara!”
Clara rolls her eyes as she walks up to grab the trophy from my hand. “You sound like my husband.”
