Page 90 of Some Like It Hot

I’m as superstitious as the next goalie, so I start my pre-period ritual.

I run my hand through my hair twice, tap my helmet against each of my shin guards before placing on my head, then tap my stick three times against the left side of the net, three times on the right, then three times on the top. That’s me putting my “forcefield” up. It started when I was a kid but, hey, it works. Then I’m ready to go.

Just a few more minutes until I can be with Elise.

“I didn’t realize how much hotter it would be watching you play after we’ve had sex,” Elise says in my ear as I hug her in the back hallway after the game. “Now I know how much power your hips have and how capable your hands are and what those shoulders look like bare naked.” She shivers. “So. Hot.”

When I walked out of the locker room and saw her standing there with Luna and Dani and the other wives and girlfriends, my heart had done a little flip-flop.

Fuck. I really am getting into this thing between us, aren’t I?

Then she says things like that and I’m really into it.

I lift my head and grin down at her. “You had no idea at all? You’re honestly trying to convince me that you never thought about fucking me while watching me play before? I don’t believe that for a second.”

She lifts one shoulder. “Of course I did. And I always thought you were hot when you played. I guess I didn’t realize it could get even hotter.”

I lean in and put my mouth against her ear. “I’ll have you know that partway through the second period I was rethinking the whole blow jobs for every save thing. I was killing it out there and I am becoming very fond of your hot little mouth.”

She laughs and her warm breath brushes over my neck as an equally warm feeling rushes through my chest. “No longer worried about my jaw getting tired?” she asks.

“Well, I figured they don’t have to all be at once. Not all in one night, you know? We can save them up. There are my days off, after all. And a long off-season.”

She’s still smiling but her eyes are studying me now. “You’re retiring after this year.”

Right. Shit. “Yeah, I mean I’ll need a few things to get me through those first few months, right?”

Which is also insinuating that she’ll still be around then. That we’ll still be doing things that involve my dick in her mouth.

But this is all temporary. As well as being fake-ish.

Fuck. Why is that all so easy to forget?

I start to pull back a little, but her arms tighten around my waist. “I am very happy to keep tally marks of how many saves you make and reward you for every single one.”

I look at her. Is she offering to make this go past the ninety-day mark?

And do I want that?

“You don’t even have to keep track,” I say. “That’s a stat that other people keep track of for us.”

She gives me a grin. “Even better.”

I keep an arm around her as she says goodbye to her friends and we head down the hallway toward the parking lot.

“My place?” I ask.

“Simon and Aidan asked about that. Simon said we’re welcome at his place, but yours is fine too,” she tells me.

I wait for a second to see if I feel a stab of jealousy or annoyance.

Neither come.

In truth, not only is it hot to be with Simon and Aidan with Elise, but they’re making it easier to keep some distance between me and this girl.

Seeing her sitting in the stands, having her waiting for me in the back hallway, just having my number on her back, is making me feel more attached to her than I ever expected. I’ve been attracted to her, wanted to take her to bed, even thought that taking her to a few social functions would be fun, but I didn’t expect to want things like waking up in the night and finding her head on my chest and wanting to lay and listen to her breathing. I didn’t expect to love her little fashion shows where she tries on new dresses for us. The dresses are sexy, of course, but her excitement, creativity, and the way she approaches her passion with joy and a smart-as-a-whip business mind, is also a turn on. She’s smart, sassy, and almost too self-deprecating.

I wish she could see how amazing she really is.

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