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Both the shower and the bathrooet in a little exercise I haven’t been to the gyure out a routine that works on a bus or I’ll look like an aging forty-year-old father of triplets before we e area and back bedrooave hts in the bottom of the lower cabinet and even a collapsible bench for pressing I hit the floor for fifty pushups, do sorab the pull-up bar My hteen when the door to the front lounge area opens and Lucky walks in

Muscles tensed and straining, lued to her as she stands there while I slowly finish the last two pull-ups Even though o, I suddenly have perfect form and control over my body while I fluidly rise up and down Thank you, testosterone

I watch as she ss, taking inwhile I lift and slowly come back down The look in her eyes conveys what she hasn’t accepted yet I jump to my feet after I finish the set of twenty I’d set out to do It’s a narrow hallway and she can’t get by without ive her rooive her soh roo But what fun would that be?

"I thought you were going to shower," she says to my naked chest, with a huskiness in her voice that makes me harden instantly

"Occupied," I say as I catchher back to sidle through the little rooht confineainst me and my self-control slips I puther hip tightly My shirtless, sweaty front to her back, Lucky’s breath hitches and I exhale a jagged breath I want to run ainst the wall she’s standing in front of Show her what being near her does to ainst her ass She doesn’t try toon her neck

She inhales sharply

I hear the shoater turn off in the distance, but I’ what she feels by only the sound of her breathing and the reaction of her body Normally, I like music when I have a woh our bodies and move to But I want the first time I’ and let her breaths tell me what she needs from me

Jesus, this woman tests every bit of restraint I have My body aches for her Without a doubt I want her But not like this Not with her boyfriend twenty feet away Not with her still sleeping in his bed at night I dropto walk away because I want her And not this way

Idistance from Lucky when she’s with Dylan, on a bus where there are few places to hide The sun is setting by the tier hops on the bus at the airport and hands Mick two plane tickets Mick has a fistful of ass froue in the other one’sthe end of a movie He takes a draw on his beer, lifts his chin toward Mick and his two fuck buddies and says, "It’s like having live porn Watch the next onna turn his head to the other side and stick his tongue in her mouth The left hand will slide up to that one’s back while the right hand grabs a handful of the other one’s ass Then he’s gonna whip two signed postcards out of his back pocket with his autograph next to the city he met them in"

Amused, I sit and watch the end of the Mick show rather than the movie The last scene plays out exactly as Duff described it The tole when he hands them the postcards and escorts the those ned postcard Mick’s an ass ht’s show and an encore performance before you’re handed the one-way first-class plane ride and a kiss-off at the airport"

"Shit He kept lad they weren’t Greek or I wouldn’t sleep again tonight at the hotel"

Duff finishes off his beer "Nah They would have been postcarded anyway We’re in Little Rock, it’s wife night"