Delay of Game by Tracey Richardson

Author:Tracey Richardson [Richardson, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594935268
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2017-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Eva watched her tape-to-tape pass to Dani bounce off her stick and sail wide into the corner. In frustration she smacked her own stick against the ice and shot a look at Alison, who quickly looked away. Dani was about as focused as a five-year-old kid on a sugar high. It was the third consecutive pass she’d outright missed. Passes that should have been easy to corral.

On the next drill, Dani’s lack of concentration sent the entire line in offside. Once again Alison, who would have had a stroke if it’d been anyone but her precious Dani screwing up, didn’t seem to notice.

Eva skated to Dani and tried to cool her temper before she spoke. The team was supposed to be getting tighter, cleaner at this point, not sloppier. The Olympic Games started in a little less than two weeks, and if her line didn’t get its shit together, the three of them were going to be busted down to the fourth line. “What’s up, Comps? You seem distracted today.”

“I’m fine,” Dani hissed and peeled away.

Great, Eva thought, she won’t even listen to me. Alison was being of absolutely no support. She was so sick of all the drama and bullshit. She didn’t remember it being this emotionally exhausting twelve years ago in Nagano or eight years ago in Salt Lake. Well, okay, maybe it was this bad, but she knew one thing: her patience, her ability to let things roll off her back, had diminished over the years.

She leaned against the boards, watching the next line of forwards execute the power play drill perfectly—the way her own line should have done. A curtain was slowly lifting in her mind, because for the first time she could remember, she could envision a future that didn’t include ever playing competitive hockey again. The picture was a bit gauzy, very much unfocused, but it was there. And it wasn’t entirely because her body was breaking down from all the wear and tear, nor because of all the drama and stress. Mostly it was because her needs, her desires, had begun to shift and change, taking on new shapes. Niki’s reappearance in her life made her see that there was much more to life outside the hockey rink. She’d been stubborn, selfish, too immature to realize it the first time around with Niki. A glory seeker, an adrenaline junkie, that’s what she’d been those years ago. More recently too. But the sun didn’t—couldn’t—stay at high noon all day. And she no longer wanted it to.

Her thoughts drifted to what it would be like coming home to someone at the end of the day, sharing her life with that person—the big things and the little things, the highs and lows and everything in between. Where she didn’t before, she was beginning to understand the appeal of building a life with someone, of becoming something that was bigger than herself. A vision of Rory floated through her mind, and she smiled. What would

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