Total pages in book: 124
Estimated words: 115838 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 579(@200wpm)___ 463(@250wpm)___ 386(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 115838 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 579(@200wpm)___ 463(@250wpm)___ 386(@300wpm)
“There is no way in fuck you would be able to be a sister wife.” He laughs. “You have trouble sharing your fries with me, you think you’ll be able to share a man?”
I look up at the ceiling. “Good point,” I mumble. “I could have a reverse harem. Or the opposite of sister wives is brother husbands.”
“What are you guys talking about?” Ariella comes back and sits beside Jaxon.
“Do you know Tori is dating?” He looks at her and she looks at me. “She has a boyfriend.”
“I don’t have a boyfriend,” I quickly refute. “I’m just saying I could have a boyfriend.”
“But do you have a boyfriend?” Ariella leans in and quietly asks me. “Are you and Seth a thing?”
I make a grimace. “No, we are just friends.” I shake my head.
“So who are you dating?” Jaxon gasps out.
I push away from the table. “Okay, I’m leaving,” I look at both of them, “and for your information, I am dating.”
He nods his head like “I’m sure you are.”
“You are so lucky you need both feet to do your job, or else your toe would be wearing my heel,” I warn, turning now and stepping away from my chair.
“You aren’t leaving, are you?” Seth asks me and I nod my head.
“It’s been a long day. Stick a fork in me, I’m done.” I smile at him.
“Well, at least let me walk you to your car,” he offers. I nod at him as he puts his hand at the base of my back, very much like Zane did before, but again, no romantic feelings surface.
“I think I’m good,” I reply before we walk out the door, “lots of people outside.” I point at some of the guys outside shooting the shit. “But thank you.”
He leans in and kisses my cheek. “Thank you for everything,” he says, and I just nod at him as I walk out of the restaurant and see a couple of the players there with Zane. His eyes are now trained on me, and I don’t think they’ve left me all night. “Night, boys,” I say, avoiding looking at him. “Thanks for today.” I head to my SUV, put it in reverse, and drive away from him and his eyes.
twenty-one
Zane
I pull into the parking garage and see Clive pointing at one of his guys coming from the side. I stop my car right next to him. “Hey, Coach,” he says once I open the door and step out.
“Hey, Clive,” I reply to him, “you’re going to be joining us, right?”
He nods his head. “Sure thing.”
“Good. I can’t wait to meet your wife,” I tell him, and he smiles big as he gets into my SUV and goes to park it.
I walk into the arena and there are people everywhere. “Hey,” I say, making sure I stop and say hello to everyone. “Thanks for coming,” I tell them. When I had this idea of doing a Family Day to build community within the team, I had no idea what went into the planning of it. But Jill took off with my idea and now everyone who is associated with the team has been invited with their family. Everyone from the kitchen staff to the players are here with their families. From the last head count, it was three hundred and forty-seven people.
“Hey, Coach,” Eric says from behind me, and I turn to look at him. He walks in with his wife and daughter.
“Hi,” I reply and smile at his daughter, then nod at his wife. “Thank you for coming in on a Saturday night.” She smiles. “I know it’s not often we have Saturday off, and now he still has to come to work.”
“It’s not work,” she counters. “He’s been looking forward to this for a couple of weeks.”
“Good.” I put my hand on his shoulder. “He’s my left hand and sometimes part of my right hand.” He nods his head at me. “I’m going to go and see if Jill needs anything from me.”
“She did mention a weekend at the Four Seasons including spa treatments.” Eric chuckles and I turn to walk out to the back of the arena and out to the tent-covered area. We were going to do it inside, but there were too many things coming in that it was easier to just do it behind the building, where there is an empty football practice field and we do off-ice drills out there when we can.
I look around to see long picnic tables everywhere. The one thing we did was make sure there were at least enough chairs for everyone, even though we didn’t think everyone would be sitting at the same time.
On the side there are six food trucks all set up to feed us, everything from burgers to tacos to funnel cakes and churros.