Final Play: A Fake Boyfriend Vacation by Eden Finley

Author:Eden Finley [Finley, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

III

OLLIE AND LENNON

Chapter Fourteen

OLLIE

Nothing puts your relationship under a microscope faster than everyone around you taking giant steps forward.

Noah and Matt are going to be parents, Talon and Miller are getting married, and Damon and Maddox are … well, they’re staying Damon and Maddox.

It works for them.

What Lennon and I have has been working for us.

I’m happy. So happy.

Then why is there something in the back of my mind telling me that I shouldn’t be happy and content with what we have? That I should want more.

In the last three years, we’ve been there for each other while we’ve both gone through a lot in our professional lives.

Lennon gave up his dream job of working for Sports Illustrated to take a shitty media position with my team so he could be with me. That only lasted one hockey season before he was re-offered his dream job but for a position where he could be based out of New York. He also still has his running feature of queer athletes for the magazine and has been killing it. With more and more athletes slowly coming out of closets, he has a steady stream of articles to write.

He’s even been headhunted to audition for on-air positions with different networks, but he hates public speaking and keeps turning them down.

Meanwhile, I’ve worked my way from being a player with one of the highest assist records in the league to being one of the highest scorers. I’m becoming invaluable, and Stanley Cup whispers have been happening for the last three seasons. We’ve made the playoffs every year since I was traded to the team.

And yeah, it probably has a lot to do with teamwork and trust on the ice, not my trade, but try telling that to my superstitious teammates. They’re convinced I’m New York’s good-luck charm, and hey, I’m not going to fight that kind of praise.

I’m a gay man on an NHL team, and I’m respected.

Lennon and I are excelling in all aspects of our lives, so it’s not surprising that I’m disgustingly happy. I’m so happy I feel guilty when I hang around Soren because his life is a mess right now.

Yet, Noah has managed to create this tense vibe with one simple question.

It feels like I’m on a third date and I’m being asked “Where is this going?” even though it’s Lennon and we’ve been together for three years, not three dates.

When Lennon leans in closer to me and asks if I’m ready to go to bed, I almost want to say no. Because with Noah’s taunt in the air, I get the feeling we’re headed for a long discussion about something I have no idea about.

Which makes me wonder if this is something I should have been thinking about the past three years.

We’ve spoken about the future, have maybe mentioned marriage in passing, but we’ve always said our careers are more important and that it would be a future discussion.

I haven’t really thought about it since.

When my ex, Ash,

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