Page 137 of Hate Me

“Not when it comes to gaming,” Sky said.

“Oh, that’s it, darling. You’re in trouble now,” Caleb warned her, sitting up and moving to the edge of the couch cushion.

“Yeah?” she teased. “What exactly do you think you can do against me?”

“Bring in my ringer, of course.” He gestured at me. “Come, brother, I need you. Team-up time.”

“Fine, then Caspian is with me,” Sky told him.

Caleb scoffed. “Good luck with that. He’s as bad as me. Now with Bastian on my side, you’re fucked.” He wiggled his eyebrows. “Keep up that sexy-as-fuck attitude and it’s gonna be literally. You know, with my cock ravaging that sweet cunt of yours?”

“Yeah, I get it.”

“We all do,” I said, walking to the game system and setting up another two controllers so we could play the way they wanted to.

Just as I finished up and took a seat beside Caleb, Caspian’s phone buzzed.

He pulled it out from his jeans, then told us, “The celebratory feast is ready.”

“Can you hold off? Fifteen minutes?” Caleb asked.

Cas didn’t like things being off-schedule, but I saw him register how excited Caleb and Sky were about going head-to-head and having all four of us game together. “As you wish,” he said, pocketing his phone, then sitting beside Sky.

He snatched up the fourth controller and grinned at her. “Don’t worry, I’ve got this on my end.”

She cocked an eyebrow. “Yeah? I thought you barely ever played.”

He looked out at me and winked, then told her, “That changed over the last couple of years.”

“What?” Caleb asked worriedly. “What does that mean? Hey, is this a hustle?”

“He played a lot with me during my recovery,” I told him.

“Son of a bitch! No, that’s not fair!”

“Too late,” Sky said, smiling from ear-to-ear. “Let’s do this.”

The three of us exchanged an elated look as we watched her square her shoulders and crack her neck, really getting into that focused headspace.

She was in her element.

It was amazing to see after everything she’d been through and struggled with.

The lighter side of her was here now coming out to play, and we were going to make damn sure she enjoyed every moment of it.

“Don’t go easy on me,” she said to me.

“When have I ever, baby?”

She smirked. “True.”

We got down to it then, all of us going all out.

After about fifteen minutes, things got to a tense point, Sky and Cas getting into a dangerous position that risked taking both me and Cal out if I didn’t react quickly and foil their plans.

“Go low, I’ll go high!” Sky was calling out to Caspian then.

“Already on it, love.”

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