Page 22 of Meet You in the Waves
Rob helped me kick sand over the dying embers of the fire and cart the eskies back up to the house. We’d get the rest of the stuff tomorrow but I was too tired to deal with it all right now.
I hadn’t seen Mateo and Tate for a while and I assumed they must have left already. Of course, that made me wonder if Mateo was taking Tate home. And that of course made me wonder how he was managing that whole side of things. I hadn’t felt like I could ask and Rob had been remarkably silent about the whole debacle too.
Rob and I had just made it to the back deck when Mateo called out and we turned to find him making his way up the back lawn.
“Hey, man. We thought you’d headed off for the night,” Rob said.
“Just saying goodnight to Tate,” Mateo answered, eyes avoiding mine as we made our way inside.
“And how is Tate?” Rob asked politely.
“She’s … good,” Mateo muttered. We all ignored the falsity in our friend’s words as we made our way upstairs. I signalled for them to be quiet as we passed by the bedroom door where Ajay was in bed with hisgirlfriend, my heart mourning out a sad note as I closed my bedroom door behind us.
As usual, Rob and Mateo immediately commandeered my ensuite, fighting out for prime position while they brushed their teeth with the toothbrushes we all left at each other’s houses. Ishook my head with a smile before heading back out into the hallway to the bathroom I now thought of as Ajay’s.
I had just started brushing my teeth when a sound from the hallway made me look up. Kira was standing in the doorway, her hair slightly mussed, hopefully from sleep and not any other nocturnal activities while a look of surprise crossed her face. She was wearing a silky green robe that only just covered her but I stilled when I saw the look in her eyes.
She bit into her bottom lip which I knew she thought was a sexy little move but all I felt was a zing of repulsion at the slow, languorous way her eyes trailed over every inch of my body. I kind of wished I’d kept my top on now.
“Didn’t expect to see you here,” she said, taking an artful step into the room. Her hands moved to play suggestively with the tie around her robe, every move designed to tempt. Sorry, love. Wrong tree to bark up over here.
“Where’s Ajay?” I asked, pausing to spit in the sink.
“Out to it,” Kira replied, head cocked to the side as she moved right up into my space. “I saw the way you were looking at me tonight,” she added. Like actually had the audacity to say.
“Sorry, I think you may have misread that,” I replied as succinctly as I could. “I wasn’t looking at you.”
“Oh, you don’t have to be coy about it now,” Kira purred, stepping a set of long nailed fingers down my pec. “It’s just us here. You can be honest.”
“I can honestly tell you I was not looking at you in any way, shape or form tonight, Kira,” I told her.Your boyfriend, on the other hand.
“You can play hard to get if you want,” Kira pressed, not deterred by my words one bit. “But I’ll make it easy for the both of us.” And with that she promptly tugged at the tie around her robe, letting it fall open so that it was just the two of us and her bare tits and a little pair of lacey knickers for all the world to see.
I did not give her the satisfaction of looking. I turned back to the sink, ignoring her as she parked her ass on the vanity right alongside me while I finished rinsing my toothbrush. She wasn’t going to drive me out of my own home with her behaviour.
“Good night, Kira,” I said, attempting to step around her. She stepped into my path, a manicured hand pressed to my pec, sending chills down my spine. And not the good kind.
“Ajay’s asleep. He’ll never have to know,” she pressed, hand skating down my chest, clearly not one to be hindered. I wondered if she’d ever heard the word no before in her life. Well, there was always a first time for everything.
“There’s two problems with that, Kira,” I returned, shifting her aside and stepping around her, ensuring there was nothing between me and my escape route to the doorway. “One – I like and respect Ajay far too much to cheat with his girl.”
Still not deterred, Kira stepped straight back into my space, pressing her nipples up against my chest. Seriously, when would this woman get the hint?
“And the other?” she asked, glancing up at me from under her eyelashes.
I grinned back at her, a false smile tinged with my repulsion as I leaned down to say into her ear, “If I was going to cheat with anyone, it would be with Ajay. Not you.”
I didn’t wait to see her reaction as I turned and escaped to the hallway. I’d never been gladder to have Rob and Mateo in my bed even though the three of us were way too much for my queen. I wasn’t entirely sure Kira wouldn’t have continued to wantonly misread my obvious uninterest and barge her way in here otherwise.
“You okay?” Rob asked, noting my obvious unease.
“Ah, yeah,” I replied, deciding to keep my mouth shut as I crawled into the space in the middle of the bed that my friendshad so kindly left for me. Mateo was watching me, that look on his face that told me he knew something was up.
But I didn’t want to tell them about what had just happened with Kira. I didn’t want to tell them anything that would be so obviously hurtful and upsetting to Ajay. And that left me with my next moral dilemma, one I knew I would have to ponder out carefully in order to separate out my emotions from my motives.
Did I tell Ajay?
CHAPTER 10
