Page 70 of Rebel Secrets
My mouth dropped open, but I had no idea what to say to his question.Things between us were weird.Like, really fucking weird.Last night had made everything weird.
And yet I still wanted to answer.
“My family and I don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things.We have different opinions on, well most everything.”
“Like you living here.”
“Yes.”
“So, when’s the wedding?”
Was he serious?Would he actually consider going with me?
“First weekend in August.In the Hamptons.But you’ll be back at practice, won’t you?”
He shrugged, looking like he was actually considering it.Which he couldn’t be.“Not then, no.”
“It’s a little late in the season for a society wedding, but…” I shrugged and shook my head, my mouth feeling out of my control at the moment.“The McNamara family doesn’t adhere to rules, at least, not anyone else’s.Plus, I think she wants to nail him down before he changes his mind.Ooh, that sounded petty, didn’t it?I’m not usually like that but?—”
I snapped my mouth closed.Damn it, I was babbling.I’d been able to keep it under control for the past couple of weeks since I knew it annoyed Rebel.And I knew it shouldn’t matter to me if I annoyed him or not, but I’d wanted Rowdy and Tressy’s wedding to be stress free, and I certainly didn’t want to be the cause of any stress if there was some.So, I’d purposely tried to be, well, not so chatty.
It’d helped that I’d been hyperaware of Rebel for the past few weeks.
And look where that got you.In bed with the man and secretly wanting more.
I couldn’t look at him right now or everyone would know exactly what I was thinking.But I couldn’t not look at him.I flashed a glance his way and, yeah, he was staring at me, his expression considering.
Considering what?Me?
Oh geez.
I got up from the table, nearly knocking my chair over in my effort to get away.
“You know, I’m just gonna make sure the trays are refilled.I’ll be back…later.”
Then I headed for the fridge but not before I heard Rain say, “What did you do to Erin?”
I moved a little faster so I didn’t hear him lie.
ChapterNineteen
A week after the wedding
Rebel
“Rebel,how are you?I hope your brother’s wedding went well.”
“Hey, Coach.The wedding was great.Thanks for asking.”
Redtails coach Cory was on the other end of the line.Cory and I had known each other for years, though he was older than me by a decade.He’d never played for the Devils, but if you got paid to play hockey and you played in a certain area of the country for most of your life, you got to know the players no matter what league you were in.
It was how I’d gotten the call to play with the Redtails, even though I hadn’t come up through the ECHL.
I didn’t have a clue why he was calling, though.
“I’m glad to hear it.And look, I know this call is out of the blue, but I know you haven’t signed your contract yet.And I know the deadline isn’t until next week, but I wanted to touch base.”
And shit.I really didn’t want to have this conversation.I still didn’t have a clue what I was going to do about that contract.
