Page 18 of Undeniable Love

When you try to get off later with a vibrator I’m sure you have, or your fingers, don’t just think of me, but remember how much better I am than any replacement.

Three dots appeared in a gray bubble. Vanished. Reappeared and vanished again.

I found the team’s film room with a smile on my face.

I’d left her speechless, and I had a feeling that didn’t happen to her very often.

Score one for me.

CHAPTER 9

Meredith

“What about this?” I spun in a circle, in my black wide leg jeans with holes mid-thigh and at the knees. Up top, I was wearing a recently purchased Avengers sweatshirt. I’d cut it and washed so it was cropped at the waist and loose around the neck, hanging off one shoulder. The royal blue of their logo wasn’t a color I typically mixed with my red hair, but it’d work for the first game I was going to.

“You look great,” Hailey said. “Just like you did in every other outfit you’ve tried on tonight.”

From the couch of our poor-kid college apartment, Darrick snorted. “It’s not like he’ll see you.”

“Stop pouting because you don’t get to go.”

His jaw pushed forward. It was only because I loved Hailey that I didn’t fire back with what I really wanted to say. Ever since Darrick learned I met Tuevo, he’d suddenly become the greatest ever Avengers fan even though we all knew he hadn’t paid attention to a single game before then. Now, he acted like Tuevo was his best friend even though we’d only gone on one date with Hailey and him.

That night ended with Tuevo agreeing with me.

“Darrick is a loser, and she can do so much better,” he’d told me, curled up in his hotel room’s bed where I spent most nights now when he was in town. “Why does she stay?”

“Because she’s naïve and loves him. Because as rude as he can be, he always finds a way to make it up to her.”

“He sucks.”

Fortunately for me, he wasn’t snowed over with the smarmy charm Darrick won a lot of people with. I think it made Tuevo even greater in my eyes.

“He does.”

“And I don’t even have to have your magic gift to know he’s a piece of shit.”

I’d poked him in the ribs until he grabbed my hand, settled it low on his abs, and then pushed my hand lower, where he was already getting hard again even after a vivacious first round of sex.

That was last week.

Tonight, Darrick was still pouting, and frankly, I would have kicked his ass to the curb the first time a grown man pouted like a toddler.

He ignored me, since he knew I wouldn’t put up with his shit, and refocused his a-hole energy on Hailey. “Why are you even going? You don’t like hockey and you won’t understand what’s going on.”

Hailey’s cheeks paled. When I told her about the tickets to Tuevo’s game, she’d said the same thing. She didn’t pay attention to sports, but Darrick didn’t need to be condescending about it.

“That doesn’t mean I won’t have fun with my friend. And didn’t you make plans for tonight?”

“Only because you don’t want to spend time with me.”

My irritation spiked. God. The constant manipulation she fell for was frustrating.

“I just don’t get why you didn’t want Misty or Sloane to go with you,” Darrick said to me. “You’d have more fun with them anyway.”

“I’ll have the most fun with my best friend. And are you insinuating Hailey’s not a fun person to be around?”

“Meredith,” Hailey groaned under her breath. “Stop.”

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