Fire and Desire

Chapter 21

Aubrey

A few days into Abu Dhabi and this place was really it. I could kick back with my boys and not have to stress for a short while before it was back to the hard ass grind.

Not that we weren't grinding out here but a change of scenery always did my mind good. I don't know what not working is. If I stop, then I'm reminded of someone else who IS working and who IS doing exactly what I should be doing. And I can't have that in the front of my mind.

But Open water. Remote locations. Yatchs. My girl. My guys. A real lifestyle.

After Mark had finally left the room, I scolded at Rea.

"What?!" She asked, throwing her robe onto the end of the bed while walking into the bathroom.

"You know exactly what, why you always fighting with him?"

We'd been a family for how long but these two seemed to bicker like brother and sister. At first it was funny, how two fairly similar personalities seemed to butt heads but now it was time to reign it in.

"I didn't do shit," she called back from the bathroom, the curve in her back slightly visible through the open door frame.

I licked my lips slowly as I admired her soft even skin. My mind was ready to drift away when I peered over at the clock.

It read 7:30am. Time has slipped away faster that I'd thought. The sun was now almost completely up and the sky was a pale green simmering into blue.

I climbed out of bed and sat for a brief moment, recollecting my thoughts. Before I really let time pass me by, I reached for grey OVO cut offs and a long sleeve White OVO top.

Slipping on some slides, I walked into the bathroom and over to the 'His' sink, turning on the sculpted tap.

Splashing cold water on my face was the second best way to wake me up after some head. Head in a comfortable bed was truly number one.

I grabbed my tooth brush and proceeded to freshen up. Rea stood beside me wrapped in an embroided towel. Her hair was scraped back into a pony tail and her face was bare and moisturised.
She stood attacking her already groomed brows with a tweezer.

I watched her and rolled my eyes.

The things women do for beauty.

I ran my hands over my own threaded brows and chuckled to myself.

A hypocrite, I know.

Rea's eyes darted to me in the mirror and I watched her back intensely.

"Uh..what was that?" she asked while holding a small eyebrow brush between her teeth.

"Oh .. Nothing. Just..thinking."

I shuffled over to the shower and proceeded to turn it on. I stepped in stood under the hot water while planning out the day ahead.

I would go for breakfast with the team and talk a few things over with Oliver and have Mark listen in. Then go a sound check at the club, run through the set list and maybe do a bit of shopping for tonight and then grab some lunch.

Sounded like a plan.

I intended on telling Rea to stay at the hotel or do some shopping of her own, ensuring to keep her and Mark at arms length.

Way further than arms length.

It was one thing to have them arguing at 7 in the morning in your own hotel room but to have them at it in the car and at the club?
Uh, no thanks.