Shoot Your Shot by Fiona Embers

Author:Fiona Embers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary, sports, friends to lovers
Publisher: Evernight

Chapter Fifteen

Chris

I get rid of the condom and lean against the sink to look at myself in the mirror.

What the hell just happened?

I wash my hands, splash my face, then pee and rinse my dick.

My mind is completely fried.

I walk back to the room and Roxie is more-or-less in the same pose as when I left her—kneeling by the bed, arms straight with hands on the mattress, head lowered.

I think she might be recovering from what just transpired, too.

When she hears me, she raises her head. “Oh, hey. I’m all sweaty. Should probably go take a shower.”

“No,” I say and sit on the bed next to her. “I’m sweaty, too. Come up here,” I give her a hand to help her up, off her knees. “I want to hold you a little.”

She smiles. “That sounds nice.”

I scoot on the bed and open my arms. She climbs on and snuggles next to me. It’s not awkward or uncomfortable. We fit right away—her head on my shoulder, arms tucked against my chest, my arms around her, our legs intertwined.

We don’t talk for a few minutes, while I stroke her hair and look at the ceiling, and she traces lazy curves on my pecs.

“Chris?”

“Yeah?”

“Promise me you won’t get a big head…”

“Is that an erection joke?”

She chuckles. “No,” she says, then gets serious. “But you just blew my mind a little there.”

“Same.” I kiss her on the side of her head.

“I’m so mad at us for not fucking sooner.”

“Yeah, well, better late than never,” I say. “I honestly thought that door was closed. And it was all my fault. I was so bummed out after that night at The Old Fashioned.”

“Why did you run out of my apartment that first night? When I kissed you?”

“I’m not sure. I know I panicked. I really thought we’d ruin everything. And I’d thought about you for so long, then when it finally happened, I think I got overwhelmed. I don’t really know… It all sounds stupid now,” I say. “But I did go back to your place a little while later. Not sure what for. To talk? To apologize? I knocked a few times, then texted you, but I guess you’d gone to sleep.”

Roxie shifts in my arms. “I wasn’t sleeping.”

“What?”

“When you came to see me, and sent texts, I wasn’t sleeping.”

“What were you doing?”

“I wasn’t home.”

“Oh?” I pull back and look at her. “Where did you go?”

“I felt awful, Chris. Low. Humiliated. I don’t put myself out like that, ever.”

Shit. “I don’t like the sound of that.”

“Yeah, you won’t. But I don’t want to lie. Lying is poison.”

“So where were you?” This is going to be bad.

“I felt low and way too worked up. So I called a buddy of mine…”

“Oh, God. Not Dave.”

“No, not Dave. Never again Dave,” she says. “Another guy. He’s a good guy.”

Another guy? “I’m not sure I want to know more.”

“Look, Chris. It’s the truth. I needed to feel better, and I did. It was someone I knew and trusted.” She shifts in my arms.

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