For The Hope Of It All

Kiyara

Ilyes looks so fucking good in his wife pleaser. Not even the stupid moon boot could take away from the way the white fabric clung to his body and if my eyes lingered long enough I probably could've have seen those tight abs underneath. I'm reminded of him in his towel, the smooth skin stretched over his abdomen, his trimmed pubes and what lay under his smart pants. I regret staring altogether because when my eyes flicker to his face, a slow smirk appear and his eyebrow quirks slightly. 

"Like what you see?"

Jude chokes on the beer she had been drinking but Ilyes doesn't even flinch, letting Andreas come around him to check on her. My eyes don't leave his, even with my best friend staring wide eyed at me from beside him.

"Yeah, that's a nice guayabera shirt. Where did you get it from?"

Ilyes glances down at the black linen Cuban shirt he has over his wife pleaser, barely a laugh leaving his lips. "Gifted from a fan when I went down to Miami last summer."

"Right after they gave you their first born right?"

"You can just say I look good Kiyara, it won't kill you" I roll my eyes, a scoff leaving my lips but his smirk only grows. "Here, let me start, you look really good tonight."

Eva shifts in her seat next to me, pushing her hair back behind her shoulders to expose her neck. A typical move she does to draw the attention back to her. I didn't mean to bring her but I got the text from Sinclair while I was at her apartment and I didn't have anything to wear so she let me borrow this pretty mini dress. But then she asked me where I was going and I made the mistake of telling her Ilyes was a professional soccer player and well, now she was here trying to make some sort of mating call to one of the four males here.

"She does look good. Actually my dress that she's wearing. It's a bit loose around her boobs but it still looks so good." Her voice was unusually high pitched but I knew that was not for no reason.

Ilyes' gaze tears away from me for the first time to turn to Eva and I can almost hear how giddy she gets at the attention. Eva is good friend to me, but only if it were just the two of us and no male ever set foot in the room we occupied. Jude and Benny hated her but that's only because they've only ever been with her when we all hung out as a group. The first time Eva came to one of our gatherings, she hit on Jude's boyfriend at the time, Zeca, the entire night. But Jude was also too passive to say anything so Zeca actually entertained Eva the whole time, never brushing her off. I remember Jude crying in the kitchen out of frustration.

"What's your name, sweetheart?"

She straightens her back, full bodied breasts on show. "Eva. Eva Halton. Kiyara is my friend from pilates. I mean, we both teach pilates but my class always gets booked more doesn't it?"

I can see Benny roll her eyes for so long from where she sits on Sinclair's lap that only the whites of her eyes show for almost ten seconds. It seems like I'm the only person that can tolerate Eva tonight. I had to, considering I brought her. I don't know why Eva was the way she was around guys. She was beautiful. Bright blonde hair, dazzling blue eyes and a body that could make any guy fall to her feet. She didn't need to throw any of us under the bus to make herself look good.

"Yeah, it does. Eva teaches all the hot young mom's of Clinton Hill." I offer.

"Maybe I'll join some time" Ilyes grins. "I'm Ilyes Almásy. Sinclair's cousin."

I try my hardest not to scoff at Ilyes' obvious flirting. If I wasn't so full of myself, I'd think he was trying to make me jealous but the truth was, Ilyes could get any girl he wanted. If he did want me, he could just say.