Bet on Ice (Boys of Winter Book 9) by S.R. Grey

Author:S.R. Grey [Grey, S.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

Second Thoughts

From the time I leave my house to the moment the team and I land at our first destination city—Chicago—I feel weird.

It’s like I’m having some kind of an existential crisis.

Fuck, my mind is filled with second thoughts.

It’s kind of like yesterday but worse.

Now that I’m away, I’m more worried than ever that Cricket and I are moving way too fast.

We were quick before in our decisions, but it felt okay at the time.

Now, though, it’s different.

It’s like we’ve hit hyper-speed and there’s no going back.

I think maybe our saying “I love you” to each other has freaked me out.

Dating exclusively is one thing, but putting those words out there is something else entirely.

It makes everything bigger, more official.

And it leads to more—like moving in, like m-m-marriage.

Fuck.

I absolutely do love Cricket, though.

And when she told me last night for the first time that she loves me, my heart soared.

So why is all this uncertain crap in my head?

I just don’t know.

Maybe it’s the extraneous stuff going on—like this road trip and how the hockey world is approaching the trade deadline.

I know for certain that the Wolves will be trading someone.

There’s talk that they’d like to acquire a more skilled centerman for my line.

The guy we have is all right, but Blake and I would probably produce a lot more if we had someone better at center setting up plays for us.

Rumor is the Wolves are looking to acquire a guy named Sebastian Alderman. He’s big and strong and quick on his skates. He makes a lot of good plays too. He’s also known for being daring. He’ll fight anyone, do anything. The dude is fearless.

I hope we grab him from the Panthers.

Since we’re down a guy this road trip, I’d like to see him get signed quickly. He could join us right away since my linemate Blake suffered a minor lower body injury during that last home game.

He’ll be okay to play in about a week, according to team doctors, but the powers-that-be felt it best to have him stay home.

That’s why he ended up scheduled for the event today with Cricket.

Anyway, if we pick up Sebastian, it’d be great.

He plays center, where we desperately need him, but he can also fill in at right wing.

It’d be cool to have him fill in for Blake.

But I guess we’ll see what happens.

For tomorrow night’s game against the Blackhawks, Coach Townsend is having a guy from our farm league play Blake’s position.

I have a feeling as soon as we acquire someone better, that dude will be sent down.

But enough about that…

The rest of this afternoon is shaping up to play out like a normal road trip day when we have no game.

And it does.

After we check into the team hotel, the guys and I grab a light lunch down in a conference room that’s been set up special for us, observing all our dietary needs.

After lunch, we head over to the practice facility for some ice time.

That goes fine, as expected.

When

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