Breaking Out by Samantha Wayland

Author:Samantha Wayland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loch Awe Press
Published: 2018-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

David stomped down the tunnel to the locker room, jostling the guys around him and making a racket. They’d won the game, thanks to an amazing shot by Kieran in the last three minutes. David had gotten the secondary assist on that goal, and he was still glowing with satisfaction.

Good hockey always made him feel better. Lighter. Sometimes it even let him sleep for a few more hours than he would be able to otherwise. His ribs and hips hurt from a couple hits—both received and given—that were probably ill-advised for a man his age. Or any man, for that matter. But he was never going to admit to that. His legs were tired, his arms sore, his head quiet and happy.

Most nights after a game, he’d go to a bar with the guys, have a beer or two, and eat something deep-fried and disgusting. Tonight, he was racing toward the showers for entirely different reasons.

Nothing in the world sounded better than getting home and climbing into bed with Mati and Reese. Maybe they’d fool around. Maybe they wouldn’t. Either way, he’d pull them close and sleep.

He was charging back out of the shower room, one hand holding his shampoo, the other clenching the towel around his waist, when Kieran hip-checked him into the wall.

Ouch.

“What’s your big hurry?” Kieran asked with a sly grin.

“I have people to look after,” David said loftily.

Kieran wasn’t buying it. “Oh, yeah? I heard you took a vacation.”

“I did. I’m really enjoying this leisure time. You were right, I needed a break.”

“You’re full of shit. Don’t give me that. Tell me what’s really going on.”

David looked at the rest of the team—most of whom were doing a poor job of pretending disinterest—and pulled Kieran down a couple rows of lockers. Not that it would make a big difference in an echoing room full of nosey motherfuckers.

“I didn’t want to be paid for this one,” he said quietly. “It didn’t feel right.”

“And what exactly have you been feeling this week?” Kieran asked with a ridiculous leer.

David rolled his eyes. “It’s not—”

“Don’t lie to me, David Zapetti.”

“I’m not lying. But I’m also not going to kiss and tell,” he hissed back.

“Ha! I knew you had a thing for Mati the moment I saw you two on that couch.”

“No. Well, yes. But…fuck. Not just Mati, okay? It’s both.”

Kieran’s eyes widened. For once, he appeared to be speechless.

David rubbed his arm over his face to clear the drops streaming from his wet hair and to give Kieran a moment to absorb that. “Jesus Christ, I feel like I’m in junior high,” he muttered under his breath.

Chance came around the corner. “You should try being married to him.”

“Hi, honey!” Kieran said, a smile lighting up his face. He tilted his lips up for a kiss with the absolute confidence of one who knows their partner finds their ridiculousness endearing. “David was telling me all about what is going on with him and Matilda and Reese.”

“And you,” Chance said, somehow sounding both affectionate and exasperated, “were about to give him the shovel talk.

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