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No, it wasn’t. He simply liked her, right? He liked peanut butter too, but Matt never bothered him about that.

“So you’re in a…relationship?” Matt concluded, surprised. “That would change things, of course.”

He snorted loudly. “God, no.”

Matt’s brow furrowed.

“We’re not dating. We are merely sleeping together.”

“I see. You’re sleeping together and have feelings for each other.”

“Well…” He couldn’t say for certain. He had feelings. Lots of them. As for Lucy… “Maybe,” he finally replied vaguely.

“Okay, wait.” Matt raised his hands and spoke even more softly. “I don’t understand. You like her. You sleep with her and you see her, what? Twice a week?”

Dax scratched his chin. “Five times. So far,” he noted. “But it’s only been two weeks.”

Matt started laughing. Boisterously. Half of their teammates sitting nearby turned to look at them.

“What’s so funny?” Leon asked.

“Oh, Dax said something stupid,” Matt said lightly and waved it off.

“Oh, I see. Nothing new then,” the defender replied disinterestedly and left them in peace again.

“I don’t say stupid things,” Dax informed his friend, annoyed.

“Yes, you do. You spend most of your nights together, you like each other, yet you claim you’re not in a relationship. That’s ridiculous. Next, you’ll tell me you send a goodnight message every night.”

Dax remained silent.

“Oh shit, you do!” Matt grinned broadly. “Dax, why didn’t you just say so? Then I could have saved the friendly warning speech. You’re not fucking—you’re a couple.”

He opened his mouth in disbelief. “We’re not! We’re not dating. We’re only having sex!”

“So you don’t talk to each other? Don’t eat breakfast together? Don’t tell each other about your day?”

Perplexed, Dax opened his mouth. Of course they did. It would be strange to be silent when you spent so much time together. Besides, what else was there to talk about if not your day? But that didn’t mean that they were…did it?

“You should see your face,” Matt said, shaking his head. “You look like you did when you found out wombats pooped cubes. You’re also the only idiots who have never spent more than a few nights with the same person and so don’t know what a relationship is.”

“Wombats are just completely absurd—and I don’t understand. Isthatwhat you do when you’re in a relationship?” he asked, confused.

Matt snorted. “Dude, it’s like you don’t know the meaning of the word.”

Well…no! He had a relationship with his sister that didn’t really count and relationships with his hockey buddies, but…no, they didn’t count either.

“Shit,” he blurted out, rubbing his hand over his face.

“Yup,” Matt confirmed. “Welcome to the adult world.”

“But Lucy doesn’t think we’re in a relationship!”

“Well, she’s wrong.”

“But…” His throat went oddly dry. “But, I told her I didn’t want to date her. That I just want to sleep with her.”

“Well, you lied,” Matt said in his best professorial voice.

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