Page 133 of Game Changer
“I won’t, Molly.I promise you.”
Her lips tip up into a trembling smile and she touches her fingertips to my cheek.“Remember what you said, the night of the wedding?I mean, the non-wedding?”
“Uh…no.”
“You said sometimes not getting what you want can be a good thing.”
“Fuck, I am so smart.”
“I know.”She laughs lightly and presses a kiss to my chest.“You were right.Things worked out so much better.For all of us.”
I slide a hand into her hair and press her face to me.“Yeah.Things did.”I roll her to her back and rise up over her to peer down into her eyes.“I promise I will never cheat on you, Molly.If I’ve learned anything, it’s that I need to talk.If I’m ever feeling…I don’t even know, fuck, I can’t imagine wanting anyone but you, I love you…but if I’m not happy, I promise I will talk to you about it instead of doing something stupid.”
She nods, her eyes wide and glowing with love.“Thank you.”
“And if I don’t, you have my permission to smack me across the back of my head with a hockey stick.”
She smiles.
“Telling my dad I thought he cheated on Mom was hard.But it was worth it, to find out the truth.And to have a relationship with my dad, to be able to respect him again.”
Her eyes go glossy, her smile tremulous.
“Telling my mom I’m in love with you after I denied it to everyone was hard.But it was worth it too.”I kiss her.“Sodamn worth it.Tellingyou…was surprisinglynothard.”I smile wryly.“I hope I know now that even if it’s hard to talk about something, it’s worth it.”
Her throat works as she smiles and gives a tiny nod.“Thank you.”She touches my face.
“My whole family is crazy about you.”I nuzzle her ear.“Everyone’s been asking me about you.”
“Really?That’s so sweet.”
“You’re sweet.”I nibble her ear lobe and she shivers.“And I want to taste you.Everywhere.”
I proceed to do so.
27
Molly
“It’s the fuckening.”
Jax’s silence greets my comment.“What?”
“The fuckening.You know when things are going too well, and you don’t totally trust it’s going to last and shit goes down?That’s the fuckening.”
Jax falls over on his couch laughing.“Jesus.”
“It’s not a laughing matter.”I could cry over what I just read online.About me.I press my fingers to my mouth.“We thought things were okay with you and Steve about us being together.But we didn’t take into account the rest of the world.”
I found a blog online that posted about Jax and me being a couple, one of those “Hottest Wives of the NHL” things, and some jerkface commented and called me a hockey whore because I’d been engaged to Steve and left him at the altar to run off with one of his teammates.
It’s true, though.
“I’m sorry I’m embarrassing you.Both of you.”
The comments also implied that there was bad blood between Jax and Steve now, causing tension in the dressing room and on the ice.That part isnottrue.I think?Unless Jax hasn’t been honest with me…
“Christ, Molly.It’s not you.Haters are gonna hate.People will say all kinds of shit.You have to get used to it.”
