False Start by Evelyn Stacey

Author:Evelyn Stacey [Stacey, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

9

Madison

I sat there, at my desk, and ran my eyes over the article one last time. Did it say everything I needed it to? I was pretty sure it was as perfect as it was ever going to be, but now that so many people were reading my pieces I was finding myself going extra-hard on the editing, making sure that there wasn’t a single thing anyone could pick me apart for. Working in the football world was hard enough as it was, given how much pressure and money there was going around at the best of times, but being a woman in the industry and covering a player as hyped as Jack meant that everyone was constantly going over my articles with a fine-toothed comb to prove their dumb points about women not knowing jack-shit about football.

But I was pretty sure the match report was perfect. I had only seen the match a few hours before, and I had come straight to the office afterwards even though it was late at night; the thought of sitting around in my hotel room trying to distract myself was far too dangerous, especially when Jack had just invited me out for a drink. I had been running through his offer in my head, wondering if I should call him and take him up on it, but I knew that would just wind up with the two of us in bed once more and the last thing I needed was to throw that complication into everything else that was going on.

I submitted the article and ran my hands through my hair. It had been hard to remember every detail of the game, given that Jack had been right there next to me the whole time; I could vividly remember the feeling of his leg pressed up against mine, the comforting pressure of it, the promise that if I just shifted this way or that he would make room for me at once. We seemed to fit together, our minds just melding perfectly – he knew almost as much about football as I did, the two of us swapping facts and figures like they were a second language. I had been trying my hardest to focus on the game in front of me, I really had, but it had been impossible when I had been silently urging him to reach out and take my hand, lay his fingers on my knee, state his claim in some way.

But I would have shot him down if he had. I had to. I had to stand my ground, the way I’d promised myself I would. Whenever I found myself leaning a little too close, letting my mind wander a little too far, I reminded myself of what Marina and Eleanor had told me and that I had a vibrator at home and I didn’t need him or anyone to satisfy myself. Even if I couldn’t stop staring at his mouth and remembering how it had felt between my legs.

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