Page 17 of Puck Me All Night Long

"Oh, come on, don't play coy with me. Everyone knows how horny hockey players get when there's a lot of fighting during the game. By the way, Torin, Talen, and Tarek have been in and out of the penalty box all night—you won't be able to walk straight for a week." Cassi laughs while Britt smacks her shoulder.

If what Cassi said is true, it looks like I'm going to have a long, pleasurable night ahead of me, too. I smile at the thought.

My phone vibrates in my pocket. I pull it out and notice it's a text from Teagan, which is weird since she should be in the locker room preparing for the final period.

"It's a text from Teagan. She wants me to get Gemma and Heidi and meet her in front of the referee lounge." I glance at Britt and Cassi, who each have their phones. "What does her text to you say?" I ask, searching their faces for any clue as to what's going on.

"She wants me to set up a press conference after the game, which isn't unusual, but she wants me to make sure all the reporters and media members are invited." Britt shrugs, focusing her gaze on Cassi.

"Mine's a little more detailed than that." Cassi puts her phone back in her purse. "I better get started on it." She weaves her way through the crowd of people on their way to the concession stands for the period break. She stops to talk to both Gemma and Heidi, sending them our way.

"What's going on?" Gemma asks when she reaches us. Heidi is right behind her, with the same confused look on her face.

"I'm not sure. All I know is that Teagan wants to meet us at the referee lounge immediately." Teagan isn't one for dramatics, so her cryptic messages are a little unnerving, but I don't want to scare Gemma or Heidi, so I add. "I'm sure it's fine.

Little did I know how wrong I was.

seventeen

Barnett

"What the fuck is going on out there? First, Teagan is in the penalty box for fighting with some guy from the other team, and then the rest of you pile it on that same guy. We'll never win if we don't have any player on the ice." Coach Davis slams a nearby locker shut. "You got something you need to say, Billings, since the guy you're all ganging up on happens to have the same last name as you do."

Before I can answer, the locker room door flies open with an angry Colt, Beck, and Jensen striding in, "What the fuck is going on out there?" Colt yells, "We've got the hockey commissioner in the stands with us tonight, and he's been up our asses all night about the team's reckless behavior on the ice. The fines are racking up."

I look at my teammates, my eyes landing on each one as they nod their approval for me to tell the owners and Coach about my brother Brock. "Number sixty-nine is my brother, Brock Billings. I disowned him and the rest of my family a long time ago. He, um, used to date Gemma." growls from Colt, Beck, and Jensen disrupt my confession.

"Why didn't she tell us he was her ex-boyfriend?" Jensen looks hurt by this revelation—in fact, all three of them look upset.

Teagan pushes her way to where her uncle and his two best friends stand. "Because she loves you and didn't want to see you get in trouble for beating him up."

"But she told you about him," Colt asks.

"Well, not directly, but someone had to teach that asshole a lesson, and what better way than on the ice. Besides, I'm the least obvious anyone would expect to get into a fight." Teagan wiggles her eyebrows with a slight smirk on her face, a little too sure of herself. "I can afford to get in trouble with the coach for once."

"There has to be more to it than just teaching him a lesson," Beck questions looking to each of us for an answer.

"Brock, he, um has a video of what appears to be Gemma servicing three guys at the same time, but the guys aren't the three of you."

Colt, Beck, and Jensen's heads snap back like they've been slapped. "If it's not us in the video, then who was she with?" Jensen's face falls into disbelief.

"It was us," I say as Holden and Caspian raise their hands.

"What the fuck!" Colt, Beck, and Jensen yell at the same time, lunging for us as Torin, Talen, and Tarek hold them back.

"It's not like that," I say. "Yes, It's Caspian, Holden, and me receiving blow jobs from someone, but it's not Gemma. Brock had the video modified to look like it's Gemma."

After realizing nothing happened between us and Gemma, Colt, Beck, and Jensen seem to calm down. "Then who is the mystery woman in the video, and how did Brock get the footage?"

"That's a good question, Colt. The video was taken in a private room of a restaurant in town, and the woman is Hadley. Brock threatened to ruin me and the people close to me if I didn't help him get back together with Gemma."

"And you're just now telling us this?" Beck slams his fist into a locker.

I cringe, "We thought we could handle it without involving the three of you or Gemma."

Beck visibly relaxes, "So Gemma has no idea about the video?"

"No, sir. We thought it was best to keep it from her and handle it ourselves, but we were too late—Brock said he already released the footage before the game started since I didn't live up to my side of the bargain."

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