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Do you want an autograph? I mouth, making the signing motion in the air. I watch her lips curve into a cool smile. You wish, she mouths back at me as she stands.
“I don’t date hockey players, and I’m pretty sure you don’t even know my first name.” His gaze sharpens, his smile turning flirty. “You want me to say your name more, Hazel?”
She’s so pretty and mean and perfect, and this is going to fucking ruin me.
He points to me, then taps his chin. His eyes glitter with teasing amusement. “Oh my god.” My face burns, and I want to disappear. “Kiss it better,” he says through the glass. My skin is on fire. “No.” I give him a hard look. “I need it,” he insists, still smiling. “And it needs to be you.”
Rory winces, but he’s smiling. “Hartley, you’re not going to like this, but it’s important that you know this wasn’t my idea.” I have a bad feeling. “Someone tell me right now, please.” Hayden whistles to get the bar’s attention. “If you bet against Miller and Hazel getting together this season, it’s time to pay up.”
“Oh my god,” Pippa says, laughing and reaching for it, but I get to the phone first, staring in horror at the photo of Rory and me at sixteen and seventeen. “No,” I tell Rory, shaking my head, glancing between him and the photo. He grins. “Yes.”
“You have a big wingspan. Your dick must be huge. Okay, you’ve seen my place. Time to go.” He gives me a look like I’ve grown another head, but his eyes flare with amused delight. “What did you just say about my dick?” Oh god. I’m flustered. Why do I say the weirdest things around him?
“Look at you go, Hartley,” I drawl as she glides toward me on her skates. “You’re kicking those toddlers’ asses.”
“And seeing you go psycho over me is kind of adorable. You told like, six kids to fuck off.”
“It’s not fake anymore,” I whisper. “Is it?” Rory shakes his head. “No, Hartley. It isn’t.” His gaze moves over my face like he’s trying to take in every detail about me, and he swallows like he’s nervous. “It hasn’t been fake for me for a long time.”
