Catching Summer (Second Chances #6)(18)
Quickly, I rushed over to him and knelt down on the floor. “Oh my God, Evan, what’s wrong? Is it your leg?”
He opened his eyes and nodded, his teeth clenched. “It’s a f*cking cramp and it hurts like a bitch. It came out of nowhere.”
“Move your hands and lie on your back,” I ordered. I wasn’t an expert on cramps, but Austin’s coach had shown me some massage techniques to use if he ever got any. Evan lay down on his back and bent his left leg, keeping the other one straight. “Just bear with me, okay? I’m going to massage your calf. It’s going to hurt until I can get the muscle loosened up.”
I wrapped my hands around his leg and gasped; his muscles twitched and were extremely tense. I could only imagine how bad it hurt. As deep and as hard as I could, I massaged him, making sure to put ample pressure on his muscles. He hissed and closed his eyes as I worked on his leg. My hands started to tire, but I wasn’t going to stop until the lines around his face smoothed and his calf muscles started to relax.
“Fuck, that feels good,” he moaned.
“How long were you in here suffering? I was just next door waiting on you.”
“Well, I’m glad you came in here to check on me. I can only imagine what you must’ve thought hearing me back here.” A sly smirk spread across his face and he sat up.
“You don’t want to know,” I told him.
I held on to his arm as he got up, even though I knew he didn’t need help. “I guess you still don’t have a high opinion of me if you think I’d be in here f*cking someone else.”
His towel almost fell off his waist, but he caught it and held it in place. I had to admit I was disappointed I didn’t get a little peek. “And what exactly would you have thought if you heard me groaning by myself in a locker room?” I countered.
Moving closer, he twirled a strand of my hair around his finger and murmured, “Either you were pleasuring yourself or someone was with you. If it was the former, I’d have hid and watched.”
“What if I was with someone else?”
Before he could reply, Joel’s voice echoed through the locker room. “Evan, where you at, son?” I held in my groan. If Joel knew I was in there, he would definitely think Evan and I had messed around.
“Back here, Coach,” he shouted. “Had a little cramp but it’s gone now. I’ll be out in a minute.”
“All right. Just checking on you. I think the guys are waiting on you since the party’s at your house tonight.”
“Be there in a sec,” he replied.
Thankfully, I could hear Joel’s footsteps echoing down the hall. “I guess we better go, huh? Have you had anything to drink?”
“A little bit of water.”
“Well, no wonder you got a cramp. You should know better than to play in that kind of heat and not drink plenty of fluids. Any dumbass would know that.”
“Then I guess it’s a good thing I have my own nurse watching over me.”
Rolling my eyes, I turned on my heel and started for the door. “I’m going to get you a bottle of water.”
His chuckle echoed all the way out into the hall. There were drink machines all around, so I got two bottles of water and hurried back into the locker room. A flash of bare skin caught my attention and I stopped, holding in my gasp. Evan had his back to me and was naked, his skin glistening. It had been a long time since the vision of a man’s body had turned me on. I’d thought that part of me had died. My body tightened and my clit twitched, igniting the carnal tendencies I had buried deep. I missed the way it felt to have a man inside of me, kissing me, touching me. I wanted to feel the pleasures of that again. After I watched Evan fully dress himself, I moved out of the shadows and cleared my throat.
“Took you long enough, didn’t it?” he asked with a smile on his face.
I handed him the bottles and thought of the first thing that came to mind. “The drink machines were being difficult. Now drink up so we can go. I’m ready to see what you guys consider a party.”
He winked and opened one of the bottles, guzzling it down. “Don’t worry, sunshine. You won’t be bored, if that’s what you’re concerned about.”
If anything, that was the last thing on my mind.
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There were vehicles lined up and down the street and all across Evan’s front yard when I pulled up. Partygoers were everywhere. “Do you know all of these people?” I asked as I got out of my car. Women in bikinis traipsed around the yard like supermodels. Lara had been to a ton of these blowouts and had told me what they were like, but I’d thought she was exaggerating like she always did.
Evan laughed. “I don’t know them all, but so far I haven’t had any issues.”
“That you know of.” The last thing I expected was for him to grab my hand, but he did and guided me to his backyard. There was a bar set up with a guy and a girl serving drinks, a swimming pool that was full of people, and even a dirt bike track out in the distance. “Do you still ride with Luke?” I asked.
“Sometimes. I haven’t recently since the season just started. The last thing the team needs is for me to break my neck.” He pulled us over to the bar and asked for a beer while I took a glass of white wine.
“Will he be here tonight?” After our last encounter, I figured I was the last person he’d want to see. Sighing, Evan guided me away from the bar to his back porch, where Kate and Cooper sat talking to Derek and Brianna.