Line Mates & Study Dates (CU Hockey, #4)

by Eden Finley

“I call people bitch all the time. It has nothing to do with their sexuality.”

Same Asher

Asher Dalton just gained a new best friend. Whether he wants it or not.

Kole’s head pops up from a table near the door as I enter, and … whoa. Kole’s wearing glasses. Black, square ones that frame his eyes, and all my blood flows south. If you’d asked me two seconds ago if I had a nerd kink, the answer would have been hell no, because someone like Foster’s boyfriend, Zach, would have come to mind. But this … tall, chiseled features, and glasses? I’ve found my new weakness.

“This better work. Because if they kill each other, your dad will kill me, and then my boyfriend will dig me up and kill me again for leaving him.”

Beck and Jacobs forever 🥹

A joke about using my fist for other things is on the tip of my tongue, but I bite it back. One, because we’re in a very public place. And two, I wouldn’t want him to think I was serious. I might be open to a lot of things, but that’s on the nope list for me.

I’m dead 😵

“What about emotionally unavailable guys who treat people like shit? Because I’m that too. Don’t pigeonhole me, dude.”

Hahah

And they’re all in suits. Hot men in suits are my weakness. Wait, hot men in general are my weakness.

Same

“What if I promise not to fall in love with you? Then will you let me suck your dick?”

💀

“Don’t tease me, Kole.” His hand finds my hair and grips it painfully. “I want to fuck that pretty mouth.” Compliments will get you everywhere.

Best line in this whole book.

Blowjobs, Asher. It was just blowjobs. “I’m kind of terrified.”

HA

“You can go out with whoever you want.” As long as their name starts with A and ends in sher.

You better claim him Asher hahaha

“I like that he has a friend.”

This made me teary

I roll my eyes. “I hate almost everyone. I’m not … I’m not a good person. They were. I just … don’t understand.” “It sounds like you’re suffering from a very complicated and rare disorder.” I turn my head. “What?” His lips turn up at the edges. “Grief.”

Tears

More tears come. “Jesus H. Christ, how much water can your eyes have?”

Cackling

“I know today was hard, but I’m glad it happened. That you trusted me and then West. That you finally let go of some of that pain.” And this part might be pushing it a little, but it needs to be said. “And if nothing else, I want you to remember this, not because I said it, but because it’s true. You are never a waste.” Especially not to me.

Awwww

I sing. “I think you like me.” I add a little dance in there too. “You really like me.” “I don’t like you so much right now,” he mutters. “It was the crying, wasn’t it? You have, like, a tear fetish, and the tears of your partners really gets you off.” “Nailed it,” he says dryly.

Haahhahahahshshahahahahs

“That was a joke. Geez. Calm down. Five Guys is much better. And you can say things like ‘Five Guys filled me up, and now I can’t even walk.’”

🤣💀

I can only imagine. “You’re not going to start crying on me again, are you?” “Well, now I know how much it turns you on …” He pretends to sniff, and his lip quivers.

Hahhahahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahahaha

“I like you.” He looks me straight in the eyes as he says it, and my heart gives this weird jitter. “And I’ll never say you make this shit easier because eww, emotion, but sometimes it’s maybe sort of cool the way I don’t have to think about who I should be when I’m around you.”

“You’re so fucking gorgeous,” he murmurs against my skin. “And you’re mine. All mine.”

“Kole …” He cards his fingers through my hair and tugs me up to look at him. A weighted silence passes between us before he whispers one word. “Mine …” I nod. “I’m yours.”

Hey, I may act like a dick, but I’m a decent human being deep down. They cancel each other out, right?

“I think we need a safeword when it comes to all this emoting. No more.”