Page 2 of Lucky Laces
Not even if I did a million squats would I have an ass like that?—
But that’s not the point.
Jason’s hand is on the woman’s ass and as I follow the swirling lines of my fiancé’s tattoo up his arm, losing them beneath the sleeve of his tee…
My stomach sinks further.
Because the man who is supposed to be mine and mine alone is kissing the woman in his arms like he’s going to devour her whole.
He’s never kissed me like that.Not even during our most heated moments.
Never.
But he’s doing it tonight with another woman—during the highest point in my career.
I’m coaching my first NHL game, and I’ve busted my ass for fuckingyearsto get here.
And my fiancé is sucking some random woman’s face.
In the same building I’m coaching.
With twenty-thousand plus people in attendance and who knows how many millions watching at home on TV.
Pain ripples through me, and it’s all I can do to stay standing.
He’s cheating on mehere.
Now.
The whistle trills, and I jerk my gaze back to the ice, focus coiling through my insides, frosting over the hurt, but not doing anything for the pure, unadulterated fury filling every cell, every muscle fiber.
It’s, unfortunately, not a new feeling for me.
Not just with Jason—but with the other men in my life too.
So, I do what I always do.
The only thing I’ve ever been abletodo.
I channel it.
Then I reinforce it with the knowledge that in four-ish hour the asshole who hurt me this way is going to be out of my life.
Forever.
Four-ish hourslater
“You could give me some grace!”Jason cries, trailing me through the house.“I moved out here for you and I’ve had a hard time making friends.”
That freezes me in place for a second.
But only a second.
Because the idiotic statement sparks my fury, lighting the fuse, sending it smoldering toward explosion.
And it’s nearly one in the morning.
The game took three and a half hours and my job doesn’t just end when the buzzer rings.There are interviews to give and debriefs to have with my coaching staff, plans to be made for the upcoming games and analyzing what went wrong and right.I need to touch base with specific players who need the one-on-one contact and the training staff to make sure I know the state of the roster’s health.
