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I don’t care.
Tonight, I care. It’s like all of the feelings and longings that scared the shit out of me when I started to feel them toward Duncan four years ago have sprouted new wings, tumbled free of their cages, and are flopping around this ballroom on full display.
I picture them like flying fishes and I almost giggle.
I finally let myself steal a full look at Duncan while he snaps a photo of Waverly and Paisley on a pink-cased phone that I assume belongs to his niece.
His rugged jawline is clean-shaven.
Fresh haircut that only hints at how curly his hair will be when it grows out ...
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Dark blue suit that fits him like a glove, right down to his powerful hockey thighs and ass, built up from a lifetime of being on skates.
Stop please
He’s not just hot as hell, he’s also a good guy.
In the short time we spent together, I would’ve said he was one of the best men, in fact.
Until he couldn’t handle my utter terror at the idea of my life becoming what my mother’s was. I coul...
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I love wearing dresses when I get the chance. I love wearing pink when I get the chance.
But I don’t admit it out loud to other people. The last time I said it—back in college, before a dinner with the athletic director and several talent scouts—my softball coach cornered me and warned me to never say it again.
WHAT
If you’re going to be a woman in a man’s world, you cannot be feminine. Not yet. Prove yourself before you let them remember that you’re a girl.
bitch
“It just feels good. So how long ago were you and Duncan together?”
Way to change a topic
The way I want to answer that question so badly and ask her opinion on which of us was right and wrong all those years ago…
But instead, I take a swig o...
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“I still don’t know you well enough yet to know if that means recently or a long...
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“It means it’s irr...
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“Hmm.” “No hmm. It’s ir...
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“Was he a...
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“No more than any other man.” I slide a look at her, then add on a grumble, “Probably...
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USGHSH
“Did he hur...
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“I…I think we hurt ea...
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I thought I was taking care of her, just like I take care of everyone in my life to the best of my ability. And she didn’t want me to.
Her rejection—the way she didn’t need me at all—was so foreign a concept that I couldn’t handle it.
“Dude, if Cooper Rock realizes how much you’re staring at his wife, you’re fucked next season,” Rooster Applebottom says on my other side. “He’ll pay guys to fuck you up on the ice.”
“He’s not staring at Waverly,”
“He’s staring at the woman with her. Maddie, right?”
“Addie,” I correct without thinking, then shift a look at m...
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“Addie,” she says, zero shame in the mischief shining thr...
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“You’re obsessed with the Fireballs’ lady coach?” Zeus Berger asks from...
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PAISLEY
“Not what happened.”
“Gonna have to tell us what did happen then,”
“I did a good deed with unintended consequences. The end.”
“Up next for your bidding pleasure, we have one Ms. Addie Bloom, representing the Fireballs coaching staff,”
“I can’t bid on an evening of playing Croaking Creatures with you at a tea shop?”
“Isn’t that your favorite game, Uncle Dunc?”
“No,” I lie.
the ballroom. The way the men at the tables around me are sitting straighter. Reaching for their paddles.
Addie’s hot as fuck tonight.
Addie Bloom is the sexiest secret hiding in Copper Valley. Now, because she put on a fucking dress, all of these nitwits are noticing what I knew years ago.
My fingers curl around my paddle.
“Sit back, boys, this one’s mine,” a guy at the next table says.
Oh hell noo
He’s graying at the temples. Custom-fit black suit. Beady little predatory eyes tracking Addie as she makes her way to the stage. Thin mouth. Soul patch that makes him look like he has an ashy turd under his lower lip.
ASHY TURF
“You play Croaking Creatures?” I ask him.
The look he gives me is pretty easy to interpret. No, you fucking moron.
then leave
“One thousand dollars!” someone yells from the back corner of the room.
“We haven’t started bidding—”
“Two thousand,” the fucker at the next table says.
