Page 1 of Slick Handling

CHAPTER 1

VAUGHN

“C’mon, just smell my ball sack.” Griffin is on the bench of the locker room, his cock cupped behind his hands, as his balls swing dangerously close to my face.

I can already smell him.

The sweat from hockey practice mixes with his normal scent of whiskey and spices. It should be way grosser, but he’s one of my pack mates and his scent has that feeling of home in it; even if it comes from his sack.

However, his balls dangling close enough to my lip to be a mustache is not what I want to see right now.

I escape by ducking under his leg.

He loses his balance, tumbling dramatically onto two of our teammates. They promptly drop him onto the floor as he sighs like they let him down.

“How the hell am I going to know if I have a yeast infection if no one will smell me and let me know?”

“Why would you even have a yeast infection? Isn’t that like a girl thing?” Joel, our right winger, makes the rookie mistake of engaging with him.

Something that Griffin buys right into.

“At that Sorority party on Saturday I made the mistake of sleeping with the-”

I tune him out as I get dressed.

My body aches from a grueling practice and my mind is going over the plays that Coach had me looking at before we hit the ice. I want to spend some time reviewing more video before the game on Friday. It will get my head clear and ready to play.

We’re facing Evansville University.

It’s a big deal this weekend since they’re our biggest rivals. The games always end with at least a couple of guys getting suspended for fighting, but we always play harder knowing that we were going up against them. Something about them just gives us that boost.

A clap of hands makes me look up from tying my shoes, and a groan leaves my lips without me meaning to do it.

Coach is standing there with the medical staff, which means I'm not getting the time to review videos like I want to, unless I delay my sleep tonight and study the video at the house.

Everyone in my pack plays hockey. So watching the video won’t be a studying tool for me, but a running commentary and people fighting over rewinding clips.

When I review tape, it’s to see how the other team interacts together so I know, when paired against different lines, what to anticipate. Griffin likes to watch tape of our own team, so he can find holes in our own plays to fix. McKinley checks to see how other teams score, and what part of his net is going to get the most action. Thankfully, Apollo isn’t on our team this year, because he needs a full picture of everything and can’t stop himself from explaining everything.

My pack may be good at hockey, but they are excellent at annoying me.

“Okay boys, we need to do some blood draws before the game. There was an incident last week, at another school, where a few Alphas went into ruts during the game. We need to make sure that we keep everyone safe out there.” The three Betas that are on the team all smile because they know they can just leave.

Lucky guys.

McKinley smiles at me, giving me a little wave as he slides on his jacket. His dark brown hair is still wet from the shower that he just took and he strokes at his beard. The one that was trimmed down from the trip to the barber shop he insisted he needed this morning. It had made him late for his first class, something Apollo would warn him about later.

Prick knows I want to watch the game tape tonight and now he was going to hog the TV.

Jokes on him.

As our goalie, he spends too much time looking at the other teams tapes to see what plays they use, and what tricks they might get up to. However, if I say it’s for the team, Griffin will side with me and we’ll have to watch what I want.

McKinley’s the Beta of our pack. The pack that we just formed Junior year and now in our Senior year, are really making plans for what our pack life is going to look like when we graduate.

Even though he’s a Beta, he’s built big. More lean muscle on his 6’3 frame than the bulk that some of the rest of us have. He says that it helps him move around better on the ice, but I think he just likes to stay pretty. Something that gets him attention from our other two pack Alphas.

We met during our Freshman year of college and he just clicked with me and the rest of the guys.

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