“Well, fuck him,” I hiss.
“Yeah,” she muses. “That’s where this all started.”
Shaking my head, I strap myself in. “Just drive before I change my mind about all this.”
“You won’t,” she says confidently.
63
KODIE
“She’s wearing your number,” Linc shouts over to me where I’m warming up before our game against Seattle.
I know.
I know Casey has turned up to my game wearing my fucking number again.
There might be close to eighteen thousand people in this arena, but the second I stepped out onto the ice, I could only see one.
Well, two. It helped that they were together once again.
I swear, they’re colluding behind my back to torture me as much as possible.
I don’t remember them ever sitting close before. But then I guess, I never really noticed Casey before the masquerade.
Fuck knows how. She’s so beautiful she lights up the entire room.
I guess I was just following the rules before.
“I’m confused,” Linc states, making me roll my eyes. “She’s up there with your name on her back as if everything is okay, and yet you’re still a miserable motherfucker, so…”
“There’s nothing to sort out,” I mutter. “I fucked up. We…” I shake my head. “She’s not mine, and she can’t be mine. There’s nothing else to say.”
He laughs, but there isn’t much humor in it.
“Want to say that like you mean it?”
“Storm,” I warn.
“What?” he asks, skating up next to me where I’m stretching out my hips. “I hate to fucking say this, but—” I scoff. Linc doesn’t hate to say anything. He just says it how it is with zero fucks given. He narrows his eyes at me, his signature smirk playing on his lips. “You were a better person while you were fucking her.”
A spray of ice hits my face, and I groan when I look up to see Killer smiling down at me.
“Holy shit. You’re fucking someone?”
“Brilliant,” I mutter before turning my back on them.
I realize my mistake instantly, because that puts me directly in Casey’s line of sight.
Sutton waves at me with a beaming smile splitting her face.
I focus on her, using her excitement to fuel me.
Do not look at Casey.
Do not look at?—
All the air comes rushing out of my lungs as my eyes shift to her.
