Page 141 of Out of Bounds

"Odd?"

"It’s like having breakfast with the court jesters," Kassie muttered and I guffawed.

"Don’t they seemtired?" Adam pressed.

"Tired?" King shrugged. "Yeah, I guess."

"Ryan here made a change to tight end." Adam‘s grin stretched wide. "Personal foul, penetrate the o-line, ate up the secondary—one minute, I had another one—"

Kassie clicked her tongue. "Are these football terms?"

"They better be," I replied.

"Ryan motherfucking scored!" Adam laughed harder. "They just boned!"

Kassie dropped her fork, and I could feel her blush without even looking at her. But it was hard to be that upset at the guys when I was trying not to grin too. I already put an off-limits tagon her. How was I supposed to be embarrassed that she came on my face?

"Actually, you owe me money too," Adam thumped King’s shoulder with his. "Get your wallet out, babycakes. I want my fifty bucks."

King grimaced but he still pulled out his wallet.

"You—you had abet—?" Kassie sputtered. She turned back to face me. "Did you know about this?"

Adam snorted. "How would he? We don’t see him anymore."

"Fifty bucks," King muttered, handing him off the bills.

"You were betting if we were going to have sex or not?" I ate another slice of bacon. "Good to know you’ve got the time to talk. We definitely need to up the gym slots."

"Oh, fuck that." Adam groaned. "We just won a game. Come on, captain."

King shook his head. "The bet wasn’t if you had sex or not, it’s when you had sex. I thought it was going to happen last month. Zariah thought it’d happen right before Kassie goes to Florida."

"Part of that money shouldmine," Kassie reached over and plucked the fifty off the table. "You’ll get ten percent."

"Ten percent?" Adam demanded.

"Five percent."

I grinned and Adam snatched off a piece of bacon from her plate before Kassie tossed the fifty at him with a laugh. Even King was grinning.

"So that’s what the Romans do?" Kassie pushed. "You just swagger around with your protein shakes and discuss other peoples’ sex lives."

King shrugged. "Sometimes."

"I’ll talk about mine so it evens up the score," Adam reassured her.

"Adam." I pointed a piece of bacon at him. "I’d enjoy my breakfast more if you didn’t do that."

"Okay, so I was fucking this girl at the party last night, right? She’s hot, great tits, sucked like a vacuum cleaner, but I wasn’t feeling it. I had to pretend to come." Adam screwed up his face and gave a huge grunt at the table. "Just like that, patted her on the back, had to go grab her roommate."

"You didwhat?" Kassie clapped a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing. "What?"

"I patted her on the back. I felt bad. She put in the team effort."

"Wait, wait, wait.” She held up a hand. “Guys fake it too?"

"Not a problem I’ve ever had to deal with." King shrugged again.

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