Time to Upsize (The Indignities Book 1) by Aitken Graeme

Author:Aitken, Graeme [Aitken, Graeme]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: FIC011000FICTION / Gay
ISBN: 9780987329318
Publisher: 20Ten Books
Published: 2012-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

7

Chapter Six

‘I’ve remembered,’ Rick announced.

It was the first thing he said when he walked through our door ten days later for the ‘Roman Holiday’ evening. ‘Where I know you from,’ he continued. ‘It’s the gym. You go to City Gym and you’re friendly with Alejandro, right?’

Rick laid a little too much emphasis on the word friendly. Blake’s head swivelled around slowly and gave me a cold, appraising stare. I felt sure that I was blushing. It wasn’t only the surprise of Rick’s words but sheer guilt. Alejandro and I had been estranged for a couple of months due to my trip and then his new boyfriend. However, only the night before, we had reconnected rather spectacularly at Bodyline, with a Serbian tourist. After the Serbian had sloped off to the shower, we’d had another bout together, just the two of us. We’d parted with a vague promise to do it again sometime over the weekend.

‘I do go to City Gym,’ I said, consciously trying to keep my tone casual, ‘and yeah, Alejandro was helping me train for a couple of months.’

‘Who’s this Alejandro?’ demanded Blake. ‘You said you were working out with a friend. You never said you were paying a personal trainer.’

‘I wasn’t paying him,’ I replied.

‘Really?’ Rick looked startled.

‘He’s an old friend. We went out for a while years and years ago.’

‘Ah, old boyfriends. Well that explains it. Why you seemed so familiar with each other,’ said Rick.

‘Did we?’ I asked, laughing nervously.

‘You never said he was Spanish either,’ Blake observed. ‘You seem to have quite a thing for Latinos lately.’

‘Now Blakey,’ I soothed him. ‘Don’t be jealous. It was eons ago we went out. He was only helping me get back into shape for our holiday.’

‘Hm, well I think you need to make some new appointments,’ Blake sniped.

I hastily offered around the antipasto platter. If Blake’s mouth was full, he couldn’t be bitching at me. I opened the Prosecco and filled everyone’s glasses. I took a couple of long slurps to soothe myself. It was a most unfortunate start to the evening. Rick would think we were one of those couples who liked fighting in front of an audience, when in fact things between us had been so much better over the past week. Blake seemed to have dismissed or forgotten the sauna coupon incident and had even refrained from nagging me about work and domestics. He’d been excited about entertaining Rick and had even complimented me on my preparations for the soirée. Although, he had tried to jettison the entire raison d’être for the evening and talk me out of showing ‘Roman Holiday’. ‘I don’t think it’s a good idea to subject Rick to that. After all, we’re trying to soften him up so he’s amenable to the renovations.’

I was so insulted. ‘What do you mean? You make it sound like such an ordeal.’

‘Well, it just may not be as interesting or mean as much to him as it does to you,’ Blake continued, obviously choosing his words carefully.

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