Tate had no answers. All he could hope for was that the guy would be gone when he came back out and that he would not turn up tomorrow night.
* * *
“You’re leaving?” Logan heard from behind him as he made his way to the front door of the bar.
He turned to see Amelia jogging over, slinging her purse on her shoulder. Her blonde hair was now tied back for the evening, and her cheeks were a nice rosy pink from their earlier activities.
Logan shrugged into his black jacket and looked down at her with a wink. “I was about to. You just get off?”
“Not yet,” she replied with a saucy grin, tucking her hands into her black pants, pushing her breasts up into his face. “Want to help with that?”
Logan was positive the answer here was yes. He was single, she was single, and they could so go back to his place and finish what they started. But he also knew that she was not the person he wanted.
As he looked just beyond her shoulder, he saw Tate come back out from the hall, and he glanced around the emptying space. Their eyes met, and then Tate moved his to Amelia. Logan wasn’t surprised at the contempt he saw crossing the other man’s features.
Why the hell not?
Logan touched Amelia’s chin and looked down, so they were eye-to-eye. “I’d love some company if you’d like to join me.”
The smile that slowly spread across her lips made Logan’s cock take notice, and he was relieved to know that it still functioned without him looking at Tate.
She let her top teeth bite into that ripe bottom lip as she nodded. “I’d like.”
“Good.” He took her hand. “Just so happens, so would I.”
* * *
Tate pushed through the front door of the crappy apartment he’d moved into after the divorce, and threw his black backpack along with his jacket on the floor. Moving down the narrow foyer, he placed his helmet on the kitchen countertop and made his way to the fridge where he opened it and took out a beer. He was about to shut the door, but at the last minute, he grabbed a second.
Well, if ever there is a night for two beers, tonight is it.
Slumping down onto his couch, he picked up the remote and turned on the TV as he kicked off his boots. As the sports channel replayed a baseball game from earlier, Tate uncapped the first beer and took a large gulp.
After undoing the buttons on his vest, he lifted his hips and pulled his shirt from his waistband, sighing at finally being able to relax and unwind. As he started to zone out, he lifted the drink back to his lips and took another gulp, reflecting on everything that had happened and his own reaction to it. He knew that Logan was no doubt screwing Amelia’s brains out, and he was happy to find that the thought of that was welcome.
Why? Because, otherwise, he might have gone home to jerk off while thinking of me?
Finishing the first beer, Tate reached out and grabbed the second.
Taking it with his left hand, he tilted it up to his mouth, and all of a sudden, he had a flash of Logan looking at him while Amelia was sucking his cock. Tate recalled the way Logan’s eyes had seemed to spark and heat. If it was physically possible to feel heat from a look, then Tate could have sworn he had felt it lick along his skin at that precise moment.
Tate just needed to be more alert when Logan was around. Logan had admitted he flirted with anything that talked, but that didn’t mean Tate needed to worry. Surely, Logan wouldn’t push anything that wasn’t welcome.
And it is not welcome, Tate told himself as he glared down at his currently under control lap.
Whatever had happened earlier was just some kind of involuntary chemical or physical reaction.
Something that couldn’t be helped, right?
Yeah, right.
He was pretty sure it wasn’t normal for a straight man to get a raging erection from a guy coming, but then again, he had nothing to compare it to.
I just need to get laid.
Starting to feel more relaxed, Tate shuffled further down into his couch and assured himself that was all it was as he cradled his beer.
I’m frustrated. I just need to find a woman. Of course, I’m going to get hard while watching a guy like Logan getting head, especially with all the sex talk he threw around.
The guy was basically a walking hormone.
It was only natural, right?
Chapter Five
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday passed by without incident.
Thank God for minor miracles, Tate thought as he rode to work on Tuesday evening.
Sunday and Monday were his days off, and Logan had stayed away from the bar Saturday night. The only reason Tate knew that was because his dumb ass had watched the door all night.
Logan had managed to somehow stay on his mind all the way through lunch at his mother’s on Sunday where she and his sister, Jill, had spent half of the conversation grilling him about his love life. It irritated Tate to no end that all he could think about was the fact that the most intimate contact he’d recently had was with a guy who wouldn’t leave him alone, but he didn’t think his mother would appreciate that little tidbit. Actually, his entire family would flip out.
Today though, he was determined to move past it all. Fixating on a stranger in the bar was not smart in any way, especially when that stranger was male. He needed to find a woman to focus on.
A hot, curvy, available woman.
Pushing through the bar’s front door, Tate carried his helmet under his arm and made his way over to the bar pass where he saw Amelia wiping down the counter. She must have arrived early, which was fine by him because it gave him a little extra time to clock in.
Once in the break room, he quickly hung his jacket and placed the helmet on top of a crate. The door swung open, and Tate turned to see Amelia come through, pushing a towel into the waist of her pants.
Tate looked over his shoulder at her and gave a friendly smile. “Hey.”
“Hey, yourself.” She leaned her hip up against a table opposite him.
“You have a nice weekend?” Tate asked conversationally.
Amelia nodded, giving him a sassy wink. “Yep, sure did. Went out with some friends Sunday night. What about you? Anything exciting?”
Tate laughed, shaking his head. “Ah, that’d be a negative unless you count going to my parents’ for lunch after church exciting?”
Amelia’s eyebrows rose as she scrunched her face. “Um, no. I don’t call that exciting at all. Torture maybe?”
“Torture is exactly right,” Tate mumbled as he punched in.
There was a slight pause in the conversation and then, “So, Tate, you dating anyone right now?”
Jesus, not her, too.
Looking over his shoulder, he noticed she was focused on his ass. “Nope. Not right now.”
If he were smart, he’d ask her if she was dating anyone either. Tate didn’t think hooking up with Logan for one night counted. Maybe he could finally put an end to his sexual frustration. She did have a nice set of breasts, and her ass was perky and round, just how he liked it. But like an idiot, he didn’t. That didn’t stop her though.
“Me neither.”
Tate faced her, pushing his hands into his pockets, and before he even knew it, he opened his mouth. “What about Logan?”
Immediately knowing it was the wrong thing to say, he watched her face light up as she moved in close, placing her hand on his arm.
“Logan is…Logan,” she replied with a small shrug.
She went to move past him, and Tate let her, but not before asking, “What does that mean?”