Chapter 8Mathias put me in a guest bedroom right beside his. He moved a couple of pieces of furniture and then slid the queen-size bed to the wall, making a ton of noise and scraping the wood floor when the frame moved off the edge of the carpet it was centered upon.
“Dude!”
“No big deal.” His response annoyed me. Was it no big deal because someone else would refinish it, or was it no big deal because money was no object and an expensive floor was just one more thing he took for granted? Once he revealed his plan, I was a bit more forgiving. “I’m going to push mine against my wall, and it’ll be just like we’re sleeping side by side.”
Mathias offered a quick peck and then decided he had better go, before we broke the only rule we’d been given as teammates so far. I heard his bed slide an
