Page 32 of A Heart Worth Finding
“What is your damage?” Kenzie asked. “Does this have anything to do with a certain big, sexy goalie?”
“Can you even call him sexy?” Jessica asked. “Isn’t that against some sort of bro code?”
Kenzie gave Jessica a criminally offensive side-eye and said, “I suppose it would be if I were abro. But I’m not, so it’s not really an issue. Plus,” she added, craning her neck to glance around the groups of people making their way to Munn’s various entrances, “it’s not like Aiden is around to hear me. And I don’t hear you denying that Jack DeLuca is sexy.”
“He’s not,” she said, the lie weak to her own ears.
Kenzie leveled her with a blue-eyed glare, reminding Jessica so much of Kenzie’s brother in that moment that she nearly burst out laughing. “Get real.”
“Okay, fiiiiiiine,” Jessica conceded. “He’s…arguably the best looking guy I’ve ever laid eyes on.”
“HA!” Kenzie shouted, and several heads swiveled their way. “I knew you had a thing for him.”
“I don’t have athing,” Jessica protested. Although…nope. Not going there.
“You totally do,” Kenzie said, grinning widely. “There’s clearly something there. The way you guys looked at each other at that tailgate…”
Jessica winced then quickly schooled her features into indifference, but Kenzie caught her regardless.
“Fess up, Daniels.”
“Okay, fine! Jack and I know each other.”
“How?”
“We met in Mexico on spring break our senior year of high school.”
“Oooooooh,” Kenzie crooned. “A vacationship. I love it. What happened?”
“We had fun for a week, then the vacation bubble burst, we didn’t stay in touch, the end.”
“Fun, huh?” Kenzie asked with a suggestive eyebrow wiggle. “What kind?”
“Notthatkind of fun, you perv,” Jessica said with a laugh, shoving Kenzie away.
This time, Kenzie didn’t catch the untruth.
“I’m missing something here,” Kenzie said, turning to face Jessica in the queue to enter Munn, eyes narrowed and searching Jessica’s face.
“You’re not missing anything.”
Kenzie’s gaze narrowed further, but then the arena attendant was scanning their tickets and they were breezing through the door, and Kenzie’s attention turned to the atrium above them, seeking out her brother’s name.
Over the years, Jessica had gotten very good at lying about how much Jack DeLuca really meant to her, and it would take a lot more than Mackenzie Jean’s prying to break her.
“Aiden is such a shit,” Kenzie said, though the smile on her face belied her words.
“What’d he do this time?”
“He’s up in the press box,” Kenzie said, nodding to the boxes hanging over the rows of seats opposite the arena from them.
When they looked up, Aiden waved happily.
“What the hell is he doing up there?”
“I guess he’s about to join the radio broadcast,” Kenzie said, blowing out a puff of air. “He better hope Coach doesn’t find out. He’s already in hot water with this suspension. It would kill him if it got extended.”
Truthfully, Jessica didn’t see why such a big deal had been made about a very attractive and well-built college athlete running around naked, but it wasn’t her call to make.
