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Jesus, he hoped this wasn’t some kind of horrifying romcom setup gone wrong. Nico’s dick would shrivel up and fall off if he found out the GM traded a right-handed defenseman to get him laid. Nico also had a right hand. It operated fine. At least now that the bone had healed.
The look on Nico’s face when he’d been banished to the press box made Ryan want to wrap him in a blanket, feed him hot chocolate, and pet his hair.
“Nico, if you don’t come out, I’m going to come in. I haven’t been in a closet since 2007. Don’t make me do that.”
“Dude, unclench.” Nico whipped around to glare at Ryan. “What?” “I’m just saying, you look like you’re holding in a fart. Unclench.”
He was dressed in a Fuel T-shirt from the team’s inaugural year, and, well, dressing in clothes from his twinkier days was doing the newly ripped Nico all sorts of favors. So were the threadbare sweatpants that valiantly clung to his hips and thighs.
“What Nico is trying to say”—the warm, masculine scent of his soap wafted up to Nico’s nose—“is that he’s young and rich and could suffocate a man with his ass. So picking up is a breeze.” So he had noticed! Nico sipped his sugary drink, feeling smug.
Tara video called him to laugh in his face. “Oh my God. I’m not sure if I should coo about how adorable you are or laugh at your crush.”
what had Ryan been thinking, comparing them to an ambiguously gay Muppet couple?
“If it isn’t Bert and Ernie!” Greenie shouted and waved them into the locker room. “Everyone’s favorite ‘roommates.’” He did air quotes.
“Probably should’ve done the talking part first,” he said. “Less awkward when you’re not covered in jizz with your cock hanging out.”
“I should apologize.” He’d intended to do that when he walked in to ask Nico to Tiger Balm him, but obviously he’d gotten distracted. Nico sighed. “For what? You literally told me this would happen when we moved in together, and I said I didn’t care.” “Yeah, but I didn’t tell you I’d compare us to Muppet life partners in an interview. So, you know. Sorry about that.”
Martin shook his head. “I can’t believe you think you’re one to go to for advice, Mr. Didn’t Know I Was Bi Until I Was Twenty-Two.” “Gabriel Martin,” Baltierra said with dramatic outrage worthy of any queen, “you did not just cast stones about obliviousness in your glass house.”
Nico’s mother laughed and said something in Russian. Then she poured a bunch of rum over the wine pot and lit it on fire. Nico’s mom was metal as fuck.
Ryan and Nico had achieved this level of domestic harmony long before sex was on the table. Not that they’d ever had sex on the table—at least not this table. But now that Ryan was thinking about it, it looked pretty sturdy and the height wasn’t bad. It could probably support Ryan while Nico fucked him standing up— Ryan shook himself. Now was not the time.
Creepy. Like Christmas with the Body Snatchers.
“So you like him enough to get your heart broken, but you’ve decided not to fight for him.”
Kitty groaned and slumped in his chair, looking up at the ceiling. Ryan blinked. “What?” “I was right,” Kitty sighed. “You’re stupid.” “Comforting,” Ryan grumbled. “Thanks.”
it would take four of their defensemen to produce a full set of teeth.
what is a boyfriend other than a best friend, a roommate, and a lover? You’re very good at being all those things.”
“I love you.” The elevator doors dinged open. Nico backed out of them, grinning. “I know.”
“No matter what the sweaters say, you and me? We’re always on the same team.”
