Page 95 of Hot Puck
“Kind of. He’s their guardian. I adopted them.”
“All of them?” Blake asks. “Not just Candace?”
“All of them. Chase wanted them to have security. And with no other relatives, if something happens to him…” I shudder.
“The only thing happening to that man is he’s going to keep our goals against low and get us through the Cup finals.” Blake’s fierceness blazes in her eyes. “We will play for the Cup. I feel it in here.” She palms her chest.
“Beck is pretty sure they’ve got what it takes to go all the way to the finals.”
“Walker agrees. Although he doesn’t talk about it much. I don’t think he wants to jinx anything.”
“I’ve been studying the other teams. We’ve got a better than most shot at the Cup. Although, like Coach, I’m not ready to proclaim we’re getting it. I’ll be happy with making it to postseason,” I say.
“We’re already guaranteed that,” Blake says. “Even if we lose?—”
Oakley slaps a hand over Blake’s mouth. “Hush!”
“I know.” I grin. “So, lunch?”
“Let’s do it. I’m starving.” Cami rubs her belly. “And I’m eating for two now so not somewhere with healthy salad. I want a burger and fries.”
“Frankie’s!” The rest of us say.
“Oh, yeah.” Cami looks down at her hand where it rests on her unborn child. “Little Bit, you’re going to love Frankie’s.”
“Little Bit?” I ask.
Cami chuckles. “Yes. Whitney keeps asking how big her baby brother is, and Beck kept saying ‘a little bit bigger than last time you asked’, and I thought it was the perfect way to refer to this one seeing how we are not finding out what we’re having.”
“So, she’s not asking about a brother because you found out?” Oakley asks. “But I thought you were going to find out.”
“Changed our minds. Life has so few good surprises. This one is the goodest of the good.”
“Is goodest a word?”
Cami eyes me with a raised brow. “Does it matter?”
I shake my head. “No. What matters is getting you and Little Bit fed.”
Sliding her arm through mine, she says, “Let’s go. We can take my car seeing how I won’t be drinking any wine.”
“I can drive too.” Oakley grins.
“Nope, I’ll drive.” Cami steers me out of my office. “We’ve got a stop to make on the way.”
“Oh?” Oakley follows us, Blake behind her.
“Yes. You need to know for sure, so first we head to a drug store for a pregnancy test. If you’d told me before I drove here, I could have brought you one of the ones I have at home.”
“Why do you have them at home?”
“Because once I figured out I could be pregnant, Beck bought every brand the drug store had on the shelf.”
“Bex bought them?” Blake laughs. “Lord, I can see it. That tall streak of serious standing there trying to work out which one to get. It would have taken him a good ten minutes to give up making a decision and toss them all in his basket.”
“Yep.” Cami grins. “According to Whitney, that’s pretty much how it went down.”
We’re all laughing as we leave my office. And even though I’m still worried about how I feel about Chase, I’m glad my best friends pushed me to confront my behavior. It doesn’t matter that I haven’t figured out what to do, because regardless of what I do do, I know these three women will be at my side.
