I smiled. “Yup. Innocent chirps.” I popped up on my feet. “Now, I’d like to get back to my warm-up.”
Gus nodded and skated off.
“Tell Dani I want to talk to her.” Jenzy gave me a pointed glare and then skated over to his net.
“What the fuck, Tucks?” Micah asked.
“What’s going on over here?” Dom asked, stopping next to Micah. “Did I see Jenzy try to hit you? You? One of the nicest guys in the league?”
I removed my helmet and shucked off my glove so I could run my hand through my hair. Ugh. I’d managed to make matters worse by running my mouth, but dammit, Jensen had pissed me off. Shit, I was going to have to tell Dani.
“And what’s this about you stealing his girlfriend? I didn’t even know you were dating someone,” Micah said.
“Uh, so I met Dani, hisex-girlfriend—I want to make that ex part clear—last Friday, and she asked me to kiss her. So I did.” I shifted on my feet. How much was I going to tell them?
“She what?” Dom asked, his eyes bright.
“You what?” Micah asked, his brows pinched.
“Uh, yeah. It seems they broke up and Jenzy isn’t taking it well. We struck up a conversation at a bar that night, and when Jenzy walked in, Dani asked me to kiss her and pretend we were a thing to get him to back off.”
“Whoa.” Dom chuckled. “Well, I guess that was nice of you to help her out.”
“So now what? Are you fake dating? Real dating?” Micah asked.
I shrugged. “I haven’t spoken to her since that night, but I’m going to have to fill her in. Shit. Why can’t that assclown take a hint?”
Micah smirked. “Because he’s an assclown. It’s a shame that goalies can’t be touched. He deserves a punch to the face.”
“Don’t get a penalty,” I said.
He shrugged. “Anything can happen on the ice.”
But the only thing that happened was us losing the game four to three. I swore I could see Jenzy smirking at the other end of the ice when the final buzzer rang out.
Chapter 3
DANI
Belinda poked her head into my office Wednesday morning. She’d had to stay home with her sick son for the last two days, and it was her first day back in the office.
“Hey, you’re back. How’s Jasper?”
“Much better and at school, thank god,” she said, taking the seat across from my desk. “When’s your first client?”
“Not for another forty minutes.”
“Same, so catch me up. How was your weekend? And make it fun because I spent most of mine holding a puke bucket and watching way too many YouTube videos about playing Roblox. Why do kids like watching other kids play video games so much?”
I chuckled. “No clue. And it was fine.” I took a long sip of my nutmeg-spiced iced coffee. Sugar on Top made the best coffee in town. I’d grabbed an iced snickerdoodle cookie for later, too.
“Bor-ring. Nothing happened after I left you at Reilly’s?”
Not unless you count kissing a total stranger to piss off my ex.I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about that kiss, even dreamed about it more than once.
“Girl, spill.” Her demand pulled me out of my head.
“What?”
