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For the remainder of our date, we made love underneath the stars. Soul-churning, heart-rendering sex that had me breathless by dawn. I never found the perfect time to confesseverything to Mal and I knew that soon, it would come back and bite me in the ass. But tonight, I let myself bask in the precious moments we shared tonight.
Not once regretting a single thing.
52
MAL
Today was my first official day that I’d be back out playing on the ice. Initially, I thought I was beyond fucking ready to get out there again, but when the day had finally arrived, all the eagerness that I anticipated wasn’t there.
Instead, there was nothing.
For so long hockey became my distraction. Through the countless games, practices, meaningless fights, I found myself stuck in a life that I thought I deserved.
One of no purpose and extreme loneliness.
But then out of nowhere, Doe came along in the midst of a time I thought I had it all figured out. When I had thought I was better off without anyone in my life. And just like a hurricane, she tore down all my sturdy walls until all I could see, all I felt, was her.
Even now as we sat on the couch, all I could look at was her. Sitting with her legs crossed, holding a computer in her lap, I found the simplest of mundane things the most fucking precious to watch.
She wasn’t dressed up, she wasn’t doing anything that would have caught my eye, but by her just being here in my house,taking up space and making it hers, it was something I knew I would never forget.
“I can feel you staring,” she said over the screen of her computer without looking at me.
“Can’t help it, so you better get used to it.”
Her head tilted to the side as she finally peered at me.
“You make me nervous when you do that.”
Nervous?
I laughed.
“Why?”
She then rolled her eyes dramatically.
“Because it’s distracting having someone like you look at me.”
“Someone like me?”
She sighed.
“Someone extremely good-looking that makes it hard for me to concentrate.”
My chest flared out from her comment.
Fuck, would she be upset if I distracted her even more with my mouth on her cunt? I had a feeling she’d let me, but not willingly at first. She’d make me work for it.
“What are you working on anyway? You’re on that thing a lot,” I asked, and suddenly her cheeks flushed.
My curiosity immediately piqued when I caught the pinkish hue blossom on her cheeks.
“Just work things. Commenting on videos, uploading photos to the team’s Instagram account. Nothing exciting.”
I wanted to believe her, and a part of me did, but there was still that unsure side of me that had me questioning it. So for now, I let it go.
I went back to watching a video on my phone when suddenly Doe got up and set the computer down onto the couch beside her. She had walked off into the direction of the bathroom andjust when I was about to change the video I was watching, the sound of vibrating filled the air.
