Page 52 of Forever Mine
“Julien thought he saw Lamar. Shawn here, too?”
At the mention of my name, David’s gaze flicks briefly to me, his smile tightening. “Julien.”
“David.”
Fuck off.
With a choreographed bro handshake, he greets Ash. “Long time, A. How’ve you been?”
“Good. When’s the first game?”
“In two weeks. You coming?”
David asks Ash, but he’s sliding glances at Elijah the entire time.
“Wouldn’t miss it. I’m sure Elijah will let me borrow one of his pom-poms.”
“You guys are never going to let me live that down, are you?”
I kiss his shoulder. “I like your pom-poms.”
Elijah tips my chin up and kisses me. “Thanks, honey.”
I love seeing Elijah up in the stands shaking his blue and silver pom-poms and cheering me on during my home games. I hope he can come with me for some of my away games this year, but his work schedule will probably stop that from happening.
David shifts his shoulders in the direction of the pool. “We’ve set up over there if you want to join.”
My grip tightens on Elijah’s thigh. “Actually, I was about to ask my boyfriend to dance.”
In my defense, I really was going to ask him. One of Elijah’s favorite songs started playing right when David showed up.
Elijah beams that beautiful fucking smile at me, and my knees go weak. Every damn time.
“I’d love to.”
Sensing the passive enmity, Ash pings a curious look from David to me to Elijah. “I need to hunt down my girl. I’ll catch up with you guys later.”
Not giving a shit if anyone doesn’t like it, I stand up with Elijah wrapped around me. He locks his ankles at the small of my back and waves bye to David.
David shouts, “No passing ships, remember. I owe you dinner.”
I know he said that just to piss me off.
Carrying Elijah into the thrumming heart of the party, the house is alive with the thumping energy of bass-heavy Top 40 music that shakes the walls and reverberates inside my chest like a tuning fork.
Not afraid to call me out, Elijah says in my ear so I can hear him, “Think you got me away from him fast enough?”
“Nope.”
“He’s just a friend.”
“I know.”
But David is the kind of friend who wants to fuck my boyfriend, so… yeah, not happening.
“You can put me down now.”
“Nope.”
