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As Ariel applied pressure to his stomach with her knee, he let out a sound that was a mix between a laugh and a groan, like he was a kids toy equipped with a faulty squeaker. His abdominal muscles tightened as he attempted to stave off the attack but it was no use, his hands were preoccupied with keeping hers away from his face.

If he hadn't been interested in flirting with her, he would have headbutted her square in her pretty face. Yet, when he looked up into her daring eyes, all he saw was the outline of her lips and felt the brush of her breath as she whispered sweet threats against his skin. He should have been worried about his reputation if he lost to a woman, or his own pride, but he'd made bigger sacrifices for a pretty face before.

His hands tightened around her arms and pulled down, dragging her upper body closer to his. He felt her hair as it brushed along his cheek, sending a ripple of goosebumps along his warm skin. Despite the knee driven into his gut, he managed to lift his head just enough to speak.

"Uncle," he spoke low, in a terse whisper. His head dropped back to the mat beneath him but he refused to release her arms just yet, not until she moved her knee. He might have thrown in the towel, but he wasn't sure he trusted her not to throw one last punch for laughs. Spitfires were the most uncertain types of women.

Kamboja's eyes fell to her lips as she all but purred at him, silenced by the sound. As she sat up, he let that gaze follow the line of her body from lips, to chest, to waist line pretty unabashedly. The look on his face was purely male - where else was he supposed to look when a girl was sitting on top of him?

They'd begun to draw the eyes of a few gym members by this point but thankfully no one was bothering to interrupt them. It wouldn't have mattered much, as Kam didn't seem to realize anyone was watching, and he only dimly registered that she was pushing herself to her feet when her weight was pulled off of him. He found himself just in time to let her pull him up, flowing from a sitting position and up into a full stand. Once he was on his feet, he seemed to be more in control of himself. He cleared his throat and let that same smarmy smile spread back across his lips.

"Yeah, it's in the back, just passed the sauna on the right, before you get to the pool deck." He released his grip on her arms and pointed toward a swinging door in the back corner of the gym. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added. "Actually, I can show you, so you don't get lost."

He stepped to the side to grab the water bottle he had abandoned, then paused just long enough to make sure she'd grabbed all her things before he set a pace to the back door.