Chapter 132

“Uh-uh.” He pulled away. “No way.”

“Why?”

“You know why.”

“I don’t believe in that anymore.” I led him toward the exit.

“You’re just saying that because you’re horny.”

I laughed and thought about that. “No. I’m saying it, because…you and I aren’t competitors anymore, not right now, anyway, so we can do it all we want, at least this one time before I’m on lockdown in the village.”

“Oh.” His brows came together. He was obviously bouncing that idea around. “So, there was never a moratorium on sex, just sex with me?”

“That’s how I took it.” I enjoyed teasing him.

“Hmm.”

“You were there. Am I right?”

He thought some more. “Hmm.”

We walked slowly, hand in hand. “Besides, winning isn’t everything.”

He froze in his tracks—shocked.

“Oh. I’m going to win, but I’m not going to win everyrace. Not this time. That’s the reality. There will be a superstar here—my teammate—one of them. He’s not a bad guy either. I found out his hand’s as big as my whole head.”