Playing for Keeps by Kendall Ryan

Author:Kendall Ryan [Ryan, Kendall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kendall Ryan
Published: 2019-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

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The Chase

Justin

“She’s worried she’s going to turn into a crazy old cat lady,” Owen says, frowning.

I pause, weighing his words as my brain scrambles to catch up. “Who are we talking about again?” To say I’m a little distracted would be a massive understatement.

“Becca,” he says with a tone that asks if I’ve been following his story at all.

Shit. After finishing my last rep, I set the weights that I’ve been lifting down and heave out an exhale. “Does she even own a cat?”

“Nope,” Owen confirms, grabbing two forty-pound dumbbells and taking a seat on the bench beside mine. “I told her that it’s fucking ridiculous.”

I knew only a little bit of Becca’s history. It wasn’t something she liked to broadcast to our friend group, but I knew she was a sexual assault survivor. The keyword there was survivor. Owen once said the word victim in Elise’s presence, and she almost castrated him.

Becca seemed normal enough. She wasn’t timid around men, at least not within our group of friends, but apparently she hadn’t been out on a date in two years and Owen had called her on it. Which led to them having a whole discussion, which leads to this moment where Owen is replaying the entire thing to me while we work out.

I grab my towel from the bench and wipe the sweat from the back of my neck.

His story is a welcome distraction, because I’ve spent the last several days replaying my time with Elise like a song on repeat.

I may be at the gym inside our training facility, but my mind? It’s still firmly on last Saturday night, the night I spent in Elise’s bed. I can’t stop thinking about her soft skin, or the way she felt in my arms, or the things she can do with her mouth… I’ve thought about that a lot too, specifically in the frequent showers I’ve been taking since last Saturday.

I’ve also been replaying that weird conversation we had, and the fact that she compared herself to a random hookup.

I haven’t had the chance to see her since then. She’s been busy with work and other personal commitments. Part of me is a little thrown off by this. To be honest I’m not used to women being too busy to see me, or turning me down for sex—which she did the morning we woke up together. Granted maybe she really was too sore, but somehow I don’t think that’s the whole story.

Elise isn’t some fan-girl who drools all over me, or idolizes the ground I walk on. In a way, it’s been refreshing to be told no. She doesn’t care who I am, or what I can do with a stick and a six-ounce disk of hard rubber. I’m just Justin to her. She’s doing this on her terms, and it only makes me want to chase her more.

Owen is still talking, and I’m trying like hell to listen, but the memory of my conversation with Elise about exclusivity pops into my head and I have to hold in a chuckle.

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