Coach's Challenge by Avon Gale

Author:Avon Gale [Gale, Avon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-766-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

TROY’S PLANS for New Year’s Eve included a six-pack of beer and a puzzle. Not Dalmatians. He’d finished that one and had indeed framed it and given it to Gabe for Christmas. His plan was so lame he didn’t say anything about it to anyone. He’d made sort of a habit of spending New Year’s Eve on his own. Maybe it hadn’t been by choice at first, but there was something to be said for facing the end of one year and the beginning of another with the only person you could really count on—yourself.

Shane apparently had other plans for the both of them.

After their last game of the calendar year, Shane dawdled in the locker room until everyone left—everyone except Quinn, who was trying to entice Troy to come to some singles party with him for New Year’s Eve.

“I’m sure there are other gay people there,” he said before Troy could tell Quinn to go fuck himself. “I mean, I don’t know for sure, but maybe some of those guys would be into experimenting if they didn’t find a girl?”

Troy just stared at him until Quinn mumbled, shrugged, and gave Troy his usual meaningless, affable smile. If Quinn were an animated character, he’d be some kind of weasel.

“Have a—see you next week,” said Troy finally, unable to wish Quinn good luck at a singles party. He might not want to sleep with women, but he certainly wouldn’t wish Brian Quinn upon them either.

“You too, Coach.”

“I thought he would never leave,” Shane said when it was the two of them. He leaned against his locker, hair wet from his postgame shower, and dressed in his suit pants and an undershirt that was so thin, Troy could see the ink of his tattoos beneath it. “So. You got plans for New Year’s?”

“Didn’t you hear? I’m gonna go hang out with Quinn and the straight people.”

“That sounds like a terrible band,” said Shane with a grin. “Quinn and the Straight People. Quinn and the Straights.”

Troy snorted a laugh. “Not an appropriate comment about one of your coaches. But true.”

Predictably Shane just rolled his eyes. “Lighten up, Coach. You didn’t answer me.”

“You don’t think I’m going with Quinn? He implied there may or may not be other gay people there.” Troy noticed something in Shane’s expression. Some flash of—what? Not jealousy. Jesus. That was the last thing they needed. This arrangement of theirs, this poor-decision sex, was bad enough without adding anything else into the mix. “Wasn’t planning on doing much of anything. Why are you asking?”

“I got invited to a party with some of the guys.” Shane shook his head and pulled on a sweatshirt.

“Sounds like a much better invitation.” Troy wondered if he should go ahead and tell Shane no way right then or let him make the offer Troy knew was coming. The offer he absolutely, 100 percent should not accept.

“Actually I got a better invite for you. You ditch Quinn and the Straights, I’ll ditch my teammates, who will probably get too drunk and puke, and then you and me can fuck in the New Year.

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