Page 28 of Beta Team-The Saviors: Part One

“Nah, I’m good.” I usually keep a tight lid on my feelings around him, but Ghost opened that box when he brought it up.Plus, it might just be because he took care of me, and I see it as something that it isn’t. I won’t fuck up our friendship because I want to know what it feels like to kiss him. “Take Keon.”

“Keon’s boring,” Tyler whines. “I want you to go.” Tyler rolls from the bed and onto his feet. “Off your ass. Let’s go.”

“I’m not going.”

“The fuck you aren’t. I will drag you from this room. Try me, bitch.”

“Just order something.”

Tyler leaps, and I don’t have a chance to move before we’re both tumbling to the floor on the other side. We wrestle for the upper hand, just like we’ve done a thousand times, and I can never pin him. He’s been doing this longer than I have and is fast. “Come on, Gavin,” he taunts, trying to flip me to my back. “Pin me.”

“Fuck. You.” I twist and slide out of his hold like Ari taught me. He cackles and locks his legs around my waist. My body reacts to him, and he’s seconds away from finding out what these wrestling matches really do to me. “Fine. I give. I’ll go.”

He laughs, jumps to his feet, and sticks his hand down for me. I slap mine into his, and he jerks me to my feet. “You almost had me.”

“Almost doesn’t count, asshole.”

“Look, I can’t help that I’m a fucking beast.”

“And not at all cocky.” I push him playfully away from me because he’s standing entirely too close. “I’ll meet you downstairs.”

“I’ll be in the car. I could literally eat a whole damn cow right now.”

“What else is new,” I mutter when he walks out of the room. I take several deep breaths, willing my cock to go down. My reaction to Tyler is new and becoming way more frequent. It makes it hard to hang out with him like we used to.

“Maybe you should just tell him.”

My head jerks up to Keon’s voice, and he’s leaning against my door frame. “What are you talking about?”

He raises a dark brow. “Don’t play dumb with me. I see how you look at him.”

“I don’t look at him like anything.” I go to brush past him, and he grabs my arm.

“If you’re worried about your friendship, hiding this will fuck it up worse.”

“I’m not hiding anything,” I grit out. Am I that transparent?

“Change of plans!” Tyler calls from downstairs. “Ari called a meeting at High Flyer!”

Keon’s brows furrow, and I follow him down the steps. “Why at High Flyer?”

“Fuck if I know. But he said to haul ass.”

We go out to the driveway and make sure Tyler’s car is stocked with whatever we might need. He pulls out onto the main road and goes the opposite way. “Where are you going?” I ask.

“To get food. Ari’s not stopping me from eating.”

“He’s going to kill you,” Keon laughs.

“A man needs to eat. It’s not my fault Ari’s not human.”

“Please don’t start with the cyborg theory again,” I groan.

“It makes sense!” Tyler exclaims. “He doesn’t eat. He doesn’t sleep. And until recently, he didn’t have sexual relations.”

“You’re an idiot,” I reply. “I’ve seen him eat. You know he fucking sleeps, and maybe he was just waiting for the right person.”

“The right person just so happens to be a man. Something that Ari wasn’t interested in until recently. I think someone reprogrammed him.”