Page 26 of Full Body Hit: Part 2
Aunix chortled.Chortled. Like adick.
“You aresomean.”
The laughing just got worse. “It’s fun watching you squirm, baby.”
“You’re not even watching me right now,” Chase muttered.
And yet, in the tangled, messed-up core of him, there was a thin thread of relief as Aunix denied him.
He didn’t want to test what he’d think about the moment his inhibitions were lost to pleasure.
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Distance. That was what Chase needed between him and Auston. A quick hello and chat during practice, an excuse about being busy for lunch—it couldn’t be that hard.
Sammy eyed him up and down. “What’s wrong with you?”
Chase flinched from where he was sitting on the bench in his stall. “What? What are you talking about?”
“Why are you hiding?”
“What? I’m not hiding. I’msitting.”
Sammy peered at something over his shoulder and returned that evaluating stare at Chase. “What’d he do?”
“Who?”
“Auston,” Sammy hissed, probably loud enough for the Alpha in question to hear them.
“Nothing! Oh my God, he’sfine. He’s nice to me now. Promise.”
“Okay. So why are you running away every time he so much as looks at you?”
Chase scoffed. “You’re imagining things. I’m not—eep.” Chase clutched his heart as he lifted his head to see Auston standing right there, eyebrows raised, hands on hips.
“There you are.”
“Oh, hey.” Chase coughed, trying to clear the wobble from his voice. “Thereyouare. What’s up?”
“Not much…haven’t seen you these past few days.”
Chase laughed. Or tried to laugh. It sounded kind of weird. “What are you talking about? We saw each other yesterday at practice.”
Auston opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again. “Right. You…okay?”
“Yeah, totally. Super.”
Auston nodded slowly. “All right. I’ll leave you to it, then.”
Chase watched him turn and walk to his own stall, gut a small, tight ball.
Shit. Was Auston…upset? About Chase avoiding him?
That didn’t make sense, though—they’d only just started hanging out, and barely at that. It wasn’t as if there was proof that Austonlikedhim.
If you ignored all the time and attention and care he was showing Chase lately.
Shit.
