Confessions of a Former Puck Bunny (Taking Shots) by Madsen Cindi

Author:Madsen, Cindi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult; romance; NA; Cindi Madsen; Entangled; Embrace; hockey; hockey player; sports romance; tutor
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

Everyone glanced our way when we walked into the diner. Several hockey players, along with a mix of the promised girlfriends, occupied three tables near the back where a flat-screen TV hung.

“Ox! You made it!”

The guys nodded and bumped fists like they hadn’t just been at practice together.

Then all eyes turned to me.

Ryder put his hand on my back. “You guys know Lindsay?”

I waved to everyone, the awkward sensation turning my head fuzzy, although I tried not to let it show. So I’d flirted with, fervently made out with, and/or slept with several people in the room. Back in the day Beck and I flirted here and there, but the night I’d drunkenly thrown myself at him, he’d called me a cab home instead.

Luckily just the old me has to be embarrassed about that. The current me still felt the heat climbing up my neck.

Then of course there was Hudson. I’d made peace enough with that whole situation and him and Whitney and all, but it didn’t exactly erase the weirdness. Especially since he knew that I’d been in love with him at one point, and so did she, and ugh. Weird.

Daniel Kelly, number sixteen, a guy who toggled between center and winger, and I had done the booty call thing several times through the past few years. He was a total player, but nice enough, and he had a way of telling you good-bye afterward that didn’t make you feel like you had to do a walk of shame.

Ryder pulled out the chair next to Megan for me, and I settled into it. He sat on my right and squeezed my knee, I assumed because he could see the apprehension on my face and was trying to put me at ease. I didn’t think I’d ever be at ease in this crowd, but the gesture warmed my heart, so I smiled and covered his hand with mine.

The owner came over and took our order. He didn’t write a thing down, which made me wonder if he had a superhuman memory or if we’d get the wrong food.

Beck stood and inserted a flash drive into the side of the TV. “Okay, let’s see what’s so great about Minnesota this year, and then we’ll figure out how to destroy them.”

The game played out in front of us, everyone making comments here and there. Megan was pretty into it, but occasionally Lyla and Whitney would lean over her and talk to me about other things like classes or this dueling piano bar they liked to go to. They promised to call the next time they went to Howl at the Moon so that I could go along and check it out for myself.

Our food came halfway through the first period. The team onscreen was undeniably good, and they scored several points on the team they were playing.

I moved the ketchup bottle that Ryder kept pushing my way as a joke back toward him and then said, “Watch their second line. Everyone’s so focused on the wingers and the forward, but then that D-man comes through, and…boom.

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