Page 13 of The Captain's Curfew
And the season hasn’t even started yet.
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Violet
Logan Carter is ridiculously easy to mess with.
I don’t even have to try that hard.A little teasing, a bit of sugar-sweet defiance, andbam—instant scowl.
It’s almost too easy.
But what’s not easy is the way he looks at me when he thinks I don’t notice.
Like when I was making breakfast—if you can call peanut butter on a spoon breakfast.I caught him watching me, his gaze dark and unreadable, the muscle in his jaw twitching like he was gritting his teeth so hard they might crack.
I don’t know why it sends a thrill through me, but it does.
And I know I shouldn’t push him.
Logan is off-limits.
He’s my brother’s best friend.The team’s captain.The king of rules and discipline, which makes him the worst possible person to develop a crush on.
Not that I have a crush.
I did—past tense.
I had a massive, ridiculous, embarrassing crush on Logan Carter from the time I was sixteen until… well, until right now.But it doesn’t matter because he doesn’t see me like that.
I’m Declan’s little sister to him.Nothing more.
Which is probably for the best.
Because Logan Carter?
He’s the kind of man who could ruin me.
Logan left.
Not that I’m surprised.The man practically ran out the door, like spending another minute in my presence might kill him.
Which, honestly?Rude.
I know I’m a lot.I talk too much, push too hard, and have a terrible habit of making people uncomfortable when I sense they need it.But Logan?He’s been avoiding me since forever like I’m some walking test of his self-control.
And okay, maybe I am.
Not intentionally.Not really.
I just like messing with him.
It’s fun watching Mr.Captain Serious struggle to deal with my existence in his perfectly structured world.And if I pretend that the way his deep, gravelly voice sounds when he tells me no doesn’t send a thrill down my spine?
Well.That’s my business.
I grab my laptop and sprawl across the couch, pulling up the team’s social media pages.My first official task as the new Maple Creek Thunder social media manager is to find a way to make this team look less like a bunch of intense, brooding hockey players and more like a team fans can connect with.
Which is… a challenge.
