Wild at Heart

Part One - Chapter Eleven: Talking to Vicente

Iker smiled pressing a kiss to Mia’s head as he prepared to leave, he didn’t know how she had managed to stay with him that night but he was glad that she had; the brunette was wearing navy woven check cami vest top and night shorts.

“Iker?” Mia murmured opening her eyes and looked at him confused, he didn’t have training until later that evening; she didn’t know why her boyfriend was leaving the room now, not when she knew that he had no reason to get up.

“Lo Siento, I’ve got a meeting with Vicente,” Iker said pressing another to kiss to her head, he smiled at her knowing that he was doing this for her; the last thing that he wanted was for her to lose her job because they were together, he would do anything for her.

Mia nodded her head closing her eyes, she turned around and started to fall back asleep; she was too tired to even think about why Iker would be going to see the coach at this hour, she settled down quickly making the footballer smile as he watched her.

Iker knew that he would have to tear himself away from her, he had some things to take care off before he climbed back into bed with her; he was doing this to protect her in the long run since there was a feeling building that they were going to be in trouble.

Iker shook his head walking out of his bedroom and closed the door behind him; he took a deep breath knowing that no one else would be awake at this hour and he hoped that Cassidy hadn’t noticed that Mia hadn’t slept in her bed.

***

“So Iker what can I do for you?” Vicente asked signalling for Iker to take a seat, he had a feeling that he knew what this was about and he wasn’t sure how he felt about that; he had warned the female volunteers to not get involved with his footballers.

Iker sat down and watched the coach, there were rules in place and he wanted to make sure that Mia wasn’t going to get into any trouble no matter what happened; he had a feeling that Cassidy would be the one to expose the secret if it was revealed.

“I wanted to inform you of my relationship with Mia,” Iker said taking a deep breath, he eyed the older man knowing that he had some explaining to do; he had been careful with Mia and he doubted that anyone had noticed that they had been together for nearly a week.

Vicente pursed his lips staring at the footballer, he was annoyed that his words had been ignored by the brunette; however he could tell that Iker had something to say about this.

“We’re together Vicente and have been for nearly a week now,” Iker said eyeing his coach wondering how much it would take before he snapped; the goalkeeper hoped that they could work out some agreement that would protect Mia from losing her job.

Vicente took a deep breath as he watched the captain, he could see that there was something different about him and everyone had noticed how much happier he had been in the past six days and now he knew why.

“I know that this was against the rules but I really like her Vicente… I don’t know what it is about her but I really care about her,” Iker said smiling softly, he had never felt like this before and all of this was so new to him; he hadn’t even felt like this before not even with Sara and it surprised him.

Vicente smiled at him at him realising that this wasn’t a fling for Iker, he hadn’t wanted the female volunteers messing around with the footballers because it would distract them in some way; however this was something that he hadn’t counted on.

“Por favor don’t take this out on Mia…” Iker said gently watching his coach wondering what he thought about all of this, he could tell that it was sort of a surprise that he really cared about Mia and wasn’t messing around with her; he doubted that any of his team-mates would have felt like he did if they seduced the female volunteers.

“What do you want Iker?” Vicente asked watching the captain, he had a feeling that there was something going on that he didn’t know about; there was no way that Iker would be telling him all of this unless he wanted something in return.

Iker ran a hand through his hair and took a deep breath, he knew that he had to think about this but he had to do this for Mia; he didn’t want Vicente turning around and sacking her because of their relationship.

“I want you not to fire Mia… I know that we broke the rules but this isn’t going to distract me, I swear,” Iker said racking his mind, he couldn’t lose Mia because of all of this; she meant a lot to him and he could see himself having some sort of future with her.

***

Mia furrowed her brow as she felt Iker climb back into bed with her, she blinked tiredly as he pressed a kiss to her bare shoulder and smiled as she started to drift back off to sleep; she didn’t know where he had been but she was glad that he was back.

“Lo siento,” Iker murmured for waking her up, he wrapped his arm around Mia, he smiled softly as he held her close. Iker had no intentions of telling her about his talk with Vicente; he had done what he could to protect her in some way from his coach’s wrath about their relationship.

Vicente and Iker had come to an agreement about the relationship, it had taken some time hashing out the details about how this would work; Iker was determined to make this work, he wasn’t going to lose the one thing that made him happy.

“How was your meeting?” Mia asked tiredly closing her eyes, she cuddled into Iker’s body and yawned as she started to fall back asleep; she felt Iker kiss her shoulder again, he nuzzled his face into her shoulder as he thought about what had been said.

Iker nodded his head holding Mia close, he had done everything in his power to protect her and he hoped that they would be able to last after the tournament was over; he had a couple of weeks of holiday before the season started and he hoped to convince Mia to come back to Madrid with him if things went well.

Iker wanted more time with Mia and he was sure that she would love his home city, he wanted her to spend time with him more than she already did.

“It went perfectly,” Iker said watching Mia slowly fall asleep, he grinned to himself knowing that he was a lucky man; he had never thought that he would feel like this and had thought that Sara was the woman was it for him, however he was glad that he was wrong.

The couple were silent as Mia fell asleep, she was completely unaware that Iker was watching her as she slept; he brushed some hair from her face as he thought about what he wanted to happen between them.

“I really care about you,” Iker said softly watching her, he sighed knowing that he was going to have to work on things if he wanted them to last; they lived in two very different worlds but he was so sure that this was going to work out for them.

Iker smiled knowing that he would do anything to make this work, he had only known her a couple of weeks and she was something special and he didn’t want to let her go.