Here We Go by Shannon Stacey

Author:Shannon Stacey [Stacey, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945426025
Published: 2020-01-18T18:30:00+00:00

“Tell me about moving to Boston,” Will said.

Kristen looked up from the haddock she was squeezing lemon juice over and cocked her head. “What do you mean?”

“I don’t know. It’s a little weird, I guess, that I know a little bit about you already because of your brother. I know your family’s from Michigan, for example. But I don’t want to know the stuff that’s in his bio. I want to know about you, if that makes sense.”

“I guess it does, because I felt the same way when I decided not to do a Google search for your name,” she said, smiling at him. “Though I have read your hockey bio, of course.”

“There’s honestly not much more to know than what’s in my hockey bio, I guess. Parents and a younger sister and her family in Ontario. Remind me to show you the twenty-thousand or so pictures and videos of my nephew I have on my phone.” His face lit up when he talked about his family, and she liked that about him. “His name’s Billy because he’s named after me, and he’s four. Already a bruiser on skates, of course.”

She laughed. “Of course he is.”

“So, did you move here when your brother did?”

She nodded. “Well, not right away. I stayed with friends to finish high school when Erik signed with the Marauders.”

“Because your dad went with him even though you were still in school.”

“Stop making that face or people will think you’ve been sucking on this lemon. But yes, Lamont came to Boston with Erik. I hated being so far away from him—my brother, not my dad—so I applied to Boston colleges, and here I am.”

“I’m surprised you and your brother are so close.”

She shrugged one shoulder. “We just are. Just like nobody knows the badass Cross Lecroix likes to read biographies and squeals like a guinea pig when in the passenger seat of a car, there’s a side of Erik Burke nobody else really gets to see, either.”

“Hey, now. I did not squeal like a guinea pig and, even if I did, it was merited. You drive like you were born in this city.”

“Thank you,” she said, even though he clearly hadn’t meant it as a compliment.

“If he got traded, would you have moved?”

That was a tough question. “I don’t know. I know I didn’t like being half a country away from him, so I would have considered it. But I also fell in love with Boston pretty quickly, so it would have been hard, so let’s just be thankful for the Marauders.”

“No,” he said, and they both laughed.

“You were with a couple of teams before the Harriers, but you’ve been there a long time. Has your family considered moving to Baltimore?”

He shook his head. “No, because even to me, Baltimore isn’t home. I mean, it’s a great city, and I’ve enjoyed living there, but home is home. Throw in the fact it’s an entirely different country, and it was never really considered. They come down for big games, though, and stay in a hotel or get an Airbnb near my condo.

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