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Chapter6

D O N AL

After Lauren had gottenme settled in with the team doctor, she’d taken off to deal with the mess in the kitchen. Presently, my foot was immobilized in a walking boot while we waited for the results of the emergency scan they’d performed. To pass the time, I was thumbing through my Twitter feed when I heard the creak of the door. Thinking it was the doctor returning with an update, I looked up to find Lauren hovering uncertainly in the entrance.

“Hey you,” she said, her voice filled with sympathy. “Anyword?”

“Not yet,” I answered, glancing at the time on my phone. “Come in and wait with me? Should be another ten minutes orso.”

“You sure?” Her eyes were filled with hesitancy as she glanced back over her shoulder. “Maybe I could go get Eoin or Tadhg instead?”

“I don’t want them,” I said, my voice turning gruff. “I wantyou.”

She smiled then, a slight tilting of her lips, as she crossed the threshold.

“Close thedoor.”

She halted. “Really?”

“Yes, really.”

“That won’t look weird to anyone?” she asked, all the while reaching back to grab the handle. Her mind was telling her to be cautious, but subconsciously her body had already agreed to play withme.

“I don’t care what it looks like,” I answered honestly. I was tired of sneaking around and pretending I wasn’t into her. And besides, right now I just wanted to feel better and I knew she could help. “I’m in a fuck ton of pain, I’m frustrated as shit, and I want you to come here and kiss me until I forget the sorry state of my career.”

She smiled fully then, the apples of her cheeks rising. “Well, why didn’t you say so?” She pulled the door shut and made her way to me. Carefully settling herself between my spread legs so as not to bump my foot, Lauren wrapped her arms around my neck, her fingers tangling in the hair at my nape. “How bad is it really?” she asked, her eyes flicking betweenmine.

“Bad,” I replied, spanning her waist with my palms. She’d ditched her chef’s jacket and was wearing a tight black t-shirt that plunged into a deep v, showing off the soft swell of her breasts. My eyes lingered there for a moment before I raised them back up. There was no point in hiding the truth from her as she’d know soon enough. “I’m not going to play again this season.”

The truth was, every other season in the future was in question too. The orthopedist had performed the scan as an official way of diagnosing the problem, but I already knew what it would reveal: I’d re-ruptured my Achilles. This time though, I didn’t know if there was any coming back from it. If the most skilled surgeon in the country hadn’t been able to fix me the first time around, why would they try again? Especially since I was pretty low on the team totempole.

“Is there anything I cando?”

Was there? I mean, aside from kissing me senseless, from letting me lose myself inher.

“I believe you promised to kiss me until I couldn’t remember my name, much less my problems.”

“Ah, that does sound familiar,” she whispered, her face drawing close as her eyes fellshut.

And then her mouth was on me, the soft give and take of our lips sliding together making my heart race and my dick throb.

“Touch me,” I begged against the softness of herkiss.

Lauren’s hand slid from my neck and snaked between our bodies, finding its way to my cock. She rubbed the heel of her palm against my bulge and I canted my hips into her embrace.

“More,” I urged, guiding her slim fingers down the front of my pants.

“Gentle,” she admonished. “My burns.”

Shit. Fuck. Damn.

I’d wanted to lose myself in her and I very nearly had. But in doing so, I’d forgotten all about her problems, her injuries. “I’m sorry,” I said, releasing my hold onher.

Lauren kissed her way down my jaw and into the crook of my neck. “It’s fine. Just a little tender.”

“You don’t have to dothis.”

“I know I don’t have to,” she answered, “but I want to. Let me make you feel better, Donal.” She traced her fingers over my bare skin until she found the underside of my cock. When she caressed the exact right spot, my hips bucked forward and I hissed.

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