The Debt 11 (Club Alpha) by Kelly Favor

Author:Kelly Favor [Favor, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-17T06:00:00+00:00

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They went back up to the room and got ready for Monique and Velcro.

Chase was wearing a button down shirt and dark slacks, and the shirt was open a few buttons, revealing the broad expanse of his upper chest. The shirt stretched out across his shoulders and was tight along the heavily muscled biceps and forearms, to the point where Faith could see the cuts in his musculature.

Faith was wearing a skirt, heels and a white blouse. She applied the final touches to her makeup and then came out into the suite, where Chase was standing at the window, holding a bottle of water and staring out at the stadium.

She came up behind him. “Are you thinking about tomorrow?” she asked, hesitantly.

He shrugged. “Miami’s no joke. They’ve got one of the best defenses in the league—maybe the best.”

“You’re going to do great. I know it.”

He nodded but didn’t seem moved by her conviction. “So many people want to see me fail,” he said, his voice almost a monotone, as if he was in a trance. “Sometimes I wonder what people get out of it. Seeing someone fail. Why do they like it?”

“Because,” Faith told him, “it makes them feel better about their own failures.”

He glanced over his shoulder at her. “Pretty smart, girl. Pretty smart.” He turned back to the window. “I don’t know. Maybe I’m just in a strange mood. But right now, the whole thing just seems so fucking pointless.”

“The game?”

“A bunch of adult men running around in costumes, with goofy pads and helmets, smashing into one another, getting paid millions while people cheer in the stands.” He shook his head. “It wouldn’t seem real if I didn’t live it.”

“I thought you loved football.”

“I do, sometimes,” he said. “Other times I hate it.”

She let her hands drift to his back and then slid them around his waist. “Things will feel different after the game.”

“Yeah, I’m sure they will.” He turned slowly until he was facing her, and then Chase leaned in and kissed her so tenderly.

Their lips lingered like that for a long time.

There was suddenly a knock at the door, and then laughter from outs in the hall.

Chase straightened up and went to the door, opening it. Monique and Velcro came in, laughing, carrying bottles of wine.

“What were you two up to in here?” Velcro said, pointing at Chase. “Were you hooking up, bro? You can tell me.”

“Fuck off,” Chase said, but he was grinning.

Monique gave Faith a big hug, and then held a bottle aloft. “We come bearing gifts. Now we just need to put some music on in here. It’s a little dry, you know?”

Faith laughed and turned on the television, finding the music stations and putting it on a pop channel.

As the music floated through the room, Monique and Velcro poured their wine into glasses and handed them to Faith and Chase.

Chase held out a hand and tried to refuse.

“Dude,” Velcro said, looking fierce, “we never hung out before. And we’re never going to ever hang out again if you act like some fucking choirboy.

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