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She flopped over onto her back in disgust, feeling the tension return to her shoulders What she really needed was those great hands of Nathan to give her a back ine hi with her back and then roa ever lower She loved his hands, the way he ers slowly over her skin, as if he wanted to take his ti to know every inch of her Then his ers and he’d--

She rolled over onto her stoes to go away

The thirtyup, she threw the pillow off her head, got out of bed and went downstairs to do some work

SIX

AFTER LAST NIGHT, WHEN HE GOT ZERO SLEEP BECAUSE he tossed and turned with a hard-on thinking about what ot up early and hit the gy workout

Unfortunately, he used the sa brother Flynn, who he ran into in the parking lot

"Good to see our new quarterback at it early," Flynn said as they walked to the front door together

"Yeah I’ve got big shoes to fill"

"You’ll do it But if you need hen you up, feel free to ask"

Nathan laughed As a defensive line as they came "Thanks I’ll keep that in rabbed his phone and his earbuds "Going for a run Wanna join me?"

Since the track was exactly where Nathan was headed, he nodded "Sure"

Nathan followed Flynn onto the track and shoved his earbuds in, flipped on his runningno attention to Flynn, who ran ahead of hie, checking his heart rate and counting his steps as he ran He dove into the beat of the tunes, picking up the pace as theit like he always did right at the high point of theoff the last two laps during the cooldown

"Get a fewup beside hie alike that Ready to pound sohts?"

"Ready"

They walked off the track and stopped at the juice bar Nathan grabbed an energy drink and Flynn went for water

"You seen Mia lately?" Flynn asked

Nathan put the cap on his drink, trying to play it cool Flynn knew Nathan and Mia were friends And that’s all he knew about theht"

"How’s she doing? I’ve been trying to stay out of her business because she doesn’t want the fa it all"

"She’s a little frazzled, which is understandable given all she’s got going on But honestly, Flynn, she’strouble"

Which he wouldn’t, because his first loyalty was to Mia and alould be Flynn didn’t need to know that, though

"Good I’ you to the restaurant soon? That way I can check up on her without really checking up on her"

Divided loyalties He could see that was going to be an issue "We talked about that recently I’ll see what I can do about it"

"Thanks Now cohed "I don’t doubt it"

He did, too Nathan was no slouch on the bench, but Flynn could press soood to work out with soh, because it pushed him to be better And he alanted to be better

While they worked out, Jauys froreat workout in Flynn uys from the defense, and Nathan and Jahts

"So I’ve been out on a couple of dates with this really cool woman"

Nathan finished up the last of his chest flies, then sat up to look at Jamal "Yeah? Who?"

"You remember Wendy?"