Page 56 of Going for Gold (Sweet Cravings 3)

Bryce laughed. "You can count me out of that. What do you want to do tonight, Alina?"

"Oh, no. You should go out with your friends to celebrate."

"I'd rather hang out with you."

That's what Chris should have said. But Bryce wasn't Chris. He was so much better. "Okay, how about we all go out for a little bit and get dinner? And then maybe catch a movie or something?"

"That sounds perfect."

"I'm in for dinner. But I'm skipping the movie. Tonight I'm finding myself a prostitute," Alex said.

Kristen laughed. "You're going to get so many diseases."

"Maybe I should just sleep with you instead then."

Tim slapped him across the face.

"Dude, what the hell? You know that I hate when you slap me!"

"Don't disrespect this beautiful specimen."

Kristen linked her arm in Tim's. "You're such a gentleman," she said and kissed his cheek again. This time he didn't fan himself. He kind of had a smug look on his face. For a second I thought that maybe he wasn't gay at all. Maybe he was just the best player I had ever seen. Because Kristen was definitely crushing on him. I quickly dismissed the thought. No way.

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"There are officially no strippers in Brazil. All the literature was wrong." Alex took another shot and slammed the glass on the table.

Tim laughed. "You probably just have to leave the athletes' village to find them."

"Right. Like I'm going to leave the athletes' village when people are being murdered on the other side of the gates? I don't think so."

Bryce's arm seemed to tense around me.

I put my hand on his thigh and looked up at him.

He immediately grabbed my hand, removing it from his thigh. But he kept his fingers interlaced with mine.

Maybe sex wasn't on his mind. I knew it shouldn't be on mine either, but I couldn't help it. I felt like all I had been doing since we met was resisting him. I didn't want to resist him anymore. Indulging on every inch of him was probably the most accurate description of what I wanted to be doing right now.

"Maybe you have a super slutty volleyball friend for me?" Alex asked.

Kristen laughed. "Even if we did, we're on a sex ban. One of our teammates broke it and got benched for the first four games here. No one else is going to risk missing out o

n playing for gold."

"Well, maybe after you guys win. Who's up for that movie?"

"I thought you didn't want to watch a movie?" Bryce said. He was rubbing his thumb against my palm like he had on the train.

Was he actually trying to get me alone? My heart raced at the thought.

"What the heck else am I going to do? Our room is probably a little bigger since it's for three instead of two. How about we all go back to our place and rent something?"

"I hope I folded my laundry this morning after ironing. That would be embarrassing," Tim said and laughed. He looked truly concerned.

What had he been ironing? Jock straps?

"I'm going to go close the tab," Alex said.

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