Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 48306 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 242(@200wpm)___ 193(@250wpm)___ 161(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 48306 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 242(@200wpm)___ 193(@250wpm)___ 161(@300wpm)
“She wouldn’t tell me anything! I—Camden, I don’t know what’s—”
I crash into her, and she gasps as I spin her around, holding her tight before my lips sear to hers. She moans, melting into me, clutching me feverishly as I kiss her with every single thing I have.
“What’s going on?” She pants, pulling away, her eyes wild.
I tell her, and there are tears, and she starts to say how unfair it is, before she actually stops herself.
“Two months?”
“Two months. Until regionals, and then I’m leaving Winchester to start training.”
She frowns. “Leaving Winchester as in your job or leaving Southworth entirely.”
I grin. “What do you think?”
Slowly, a smile spreads over her face. “You’d train here?”
“As it happens, I know of this private school with facilities that would make most colleges and training centers jealous.”
She giggles. “And they’ll let you use the pool here?”
I shrug. “I mean, I’ve got a copy of the keys.” I wink. “I’ll make sure it’s cool with Principle Kane, but I can’t imagine he’ll have a problem, provided we, uh…”
She grins. “Maintain a certain level of discretion?”
“Bingo.”
She sinks into me again, hugging me tightly as she buries her face in my chest.
“Two months without touching you sucks.”
“Tell me about it,” I growl.
“But, after that?”
I smile as I look down into her eyes. “After that, we’ve got as long as you want, beautiful.”
“How long do you want?” she says quietly.
“Well,” I wince dramatically. “I wasn’t really sure how to bring this up, but…”
She arches a brow at me, and I grin.
“How does forever sound?”
Her lips pull into a grin, and she starts to nod as her eyes shine up at me.
“Yeah, I think I could work with forever.” She shrugs. “Plus, her words were no touching during the two months, right?”
I nod.
“As in, each other?”
My brow furrows. “Yes?”
“Sooooo, if we were to, say, call each other? Maybe video chat?”
I grin.
“Have I mentioned that I love the way you think?”
She beams. “Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. And again, it’s just two months.”
“It’s just two months,” I murmur, pulling her tight. “By the way, we’ve got like five minutes left before that starts, so—”
She jumps into my arms, her lips crush to mine, and we melt together.
“I love you,” she whispers into the kiss.
“I love you, too,” I growl.
And then I kiss her, and I keep on kissing her until our time is up. And after that?
Well, who the fuck cares about eight weeks when we’ve got the rest of our lives after that?
Epilogue
Waverly
Two months can go by very, very slowly. Or at least, I imagine it would have if we’d spent them sulking and being all sad that we couldn’t really see each other. Okay, we were sad, but then, neither Camden or I are the type to just lay down and take it.
So we didn’t.
Yes, two months without being able to touch the man you love or really show him any public affection whatsoever is pretty sucky. But, plenty of people in the world have it way worse, and at the end of it, we knew what we had to look forward to. So, we knuckled down and did our time.
…By which I mean, we had video chat sex literally every night.
Winchester killed it at the regionals. Well, the girls’ team did, at least. Despite Camden’s best efforts to whip the guys into shape, or even to go out and try and recruit new talent like Winchester’s resident bad boy Jamison Scott, they just never got there. It didn’t help that Ian—who, despite being an absolute creep, was actually maybe the strongest swimmer on the team—was caught spiking a girl’s drink at a club with a fake ID three weeks before regionals. Being eighteen, he wasn’t just kicked out of school, he was tried as an adult. Yeah, his dad and his dad’s money kept him out of jail, but it was a serious publicity nightmare for his dad’s company.
If you’re looking for real closure there, though, in an awesome twist of karmic payback, Ian tried to spike someone’s drink again, but managed to drink the that drink himself. He subsequently drove his car into the back of a police car, and even daddy’s money didn’t save his pampered ass from some jail time after that one.
Douchebag.
So, the guys dropped the ball, but the girls’ team slayed it. I took home a few medals, including a new state record for the four-hundred meter freestyle. Sasha got first place for the fifteen-hundred meter, and Brynn took home a first place for the four-by-one-hundred relay. And the day after regionals, right on schedule, Camden put in his notice, and regretfully told Principle Kane and the school board that he’d be leaving to train for Team USA. Of course, being such an amazing coach and having taken Winchester to regionals and all, they practically begged him to stay in Southworth and have full use of the facilities for training.