Stubborn Puckboy (Puckboys, #9)

by Eden Finley

“Then I can’t express how glad I am that he has you to scatter happiness and light amongst his darkness.”

“You’re worried I’ll break your heart? Does that mean you are putting it in my hands?” “It means I want to, but I’m terrified it won’t be worth losing everything for.” He lowers his forehead to mine. “I will cherish your heart always.” I swallow hard. “Always? What if I get fired, and then I grow resentful, and I treat you like shit, and⁠—” “That won’t happen.” “How do you know?” “Because the same way you need to trust I won’t do anything that could hurt you, I need to do the same. Because you don’t have my heart in your hands: you already own it.”

“I want to say something,” I shout over the conversation in the locker room. It immediately pulls attention from my team. All I want to do is laugh, but if I start, I won’t know how to rein it in or control it. Giving some long, big, heartfelt speech isn’t me. So instead, I pull up the words I’ve always wanted to say and never could. “I’m gay, bitches!”