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He didn't have to do anything right then and there.

What a treat.

CHAPTER TWO

Dave might not be walking bowlegged the next morning, but he was definitely feeling that fuck as he left Travis's bed and headed back to his room. He'd been too tired to make that trip before falling asleep last night, but now he desperately needed a shower, and his bathroom was clearly superior.

"No, it isn't," Travis shouted after him as Dave reminded him of that on his way out.

It was an old argument, dating all the way back to when they'd bought a small, run-down house in desperate need of repairs and fixed it up from the ground up. Travis preferred the bigger room with a smaller bathroom, and Dave wanted the opposite—it made things easy when it came to sharing house space, but also marked the beginning of a years-long debate on who had it better.

Dave's en suite had a bathtub, which of course made him the winner, but Travis just couldn't admit it, even though he enjoyed a long soak every once in a while himself.

Granted, he wasn't as big of a fan of them as Dave was, but he'd definitely become more appreciative over the years—especially when they climbed into the tub together.

Dave sighed as the hot water hit him. They didn't have to be anywhere before noon, which meant he didn't have to hurry. The company outing would take care of the training for the day, so he could take his time in the shower and during breakfast, and maybe he'd even fit in some reading time, as he wanted to get back to the thriller he'd started last week.

It wasn't often that they had a morning like this, so whenever it happened, Dave tried to appreciate it. Today, he'd have maybe appreciated it even more if sex was on the table, buthis muscles were sore enough that he didn't want to risk making it worse—at least not until tonight, when they would hopefully have reasons to celebrate a job well done on the obstacle course.

As he rinsed off the suds from his body, Dave pictured what the two of them might get up to tonight, but then he quickly put a stop to that line of thinking when his cock started getting too interested in those plans.

Later, he told himself. He liked delaying his pleasure from time to time, and today was one of those days.

He went through his morning routine on autopilot, simply giving himself permission to move slowly through each step, from shaving to putting on lotion, and by the time he walked back into his bedroom, he was completely relaxed, humming under his breath a song he couldn't quite place.

Skipping the underwear for now, he put on his favorite pair of sweatpants and headed out to the kitchen. He caught the smell of coffee before he was even halfway down the stairs and he grinned to himself.

There was nothing like living with someone who was great in bedandmade him coffee in the morning.

Dave was one lucky guy.

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"Give it your all, ladies and gentlemen, as whoever comes last on the course will be buying the first round tonight," Martinez announced with his arms wide and grin even wider. "I hope you're ready."

"Ready to kick your ass, that's for sure," Travis told him, with several others humming in agreement.

Excluding Kalei, there were sixteen of them today, as some of the teams were out on assignments. This was the first time ina long while they had a chance to try a new training set-up they hadn't come up with themselves, so everyone was pretty excited.

Which, of course, meant various bets and taunts were flying back and forth from the moment they'd gathered at the training facility less than twenty minutes ago.

"Okay, okay," Kalei's voice cut through and everyone fell quiet and turned to face him in the large foyer. "Remember you're at work and behave accordingly. Pushing to challenge yourself is one thing, pushing to score a point against your colleagues is another. I guess the best I can expect from you all is that you do both."

Dave pressed his lips together to stop himself from laughing at the severalyeahsandhoorahsthat answered Kalei, who nodded.

"Figured. No stupid risks, though. I'll be watching, and the team here will record you, too, so we can later use it for training ideas. Try not to embarrass me."

Kalei led the team with a cool head and high expectations, maintaining a serious front at the office and only ever slightly lowering his guard outside of it, usually at the company cookouts he organized at his house. Since Dave and Travis had known him for more than a decade and a half at this point and remembered him being different before he'd lost his husband, Kalei was a little looser with the two of them one-to-one, but not by much.

"Okay, go get ready and meet me by the green door over there." He pointed to the corridor on his right. "You have ten, so get to it."

Orders received, the team dispersed quickly into the changing rooms.

Most of them came already dressed for training, but they all tossed their gym bags into the lockers and drank their electrolytes or shakes as they went back to shooting shit the moment the door closed between them and Kalei.

It was Jeremy who finally closed his locker with a loud click and shook his head.

"You all talk so much you'd think you'd have something to show for it. How about we go out there and see."

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