Meet Your Match (Kings of the Ice) by Kandi Steiner

Author:Kandi Steiner [Steiner, Kandi & Steiner, Kandi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kandi Steiner
Published: 2023-07-06T23:00:00+00:00

No One But Me

Maven

I bailed on my date before he had the chance to order dessert.

My emotions were so tangled up I could barely hold down what I had eaten, let alone consume anything more. So, with a polite kiss on the cheek and a hug, I parted ways with Damon and headed home.

Home.

That made me laugh.

The fully furnished condo I was staying in with giant windows, a sweeping city landscape, and a bed far too big for only me could hardly be considered home. It was my clothes in the provided dresser, and my toiletries in the bathroom, and my usual food in the fridge. But it wasn’t my small bungalow near the beach. It wasn’t my garden or my macramé wall art or my compost ready to be put to good use.

Still, it did bring me a small comfort, and I sighed when I kicked my heels off once I was inside.

I poured a glass of wine, which I wasn’t entirely sure I wouldn’t regret in the morning. We had a game the next day, and that meant I’d be up early reporting on all of it. My head was already pounding from the night’s events.

But not as much as my heart.

What was even happening?

I sank into one of the leather armchairs in my living room, crossing my legs and attempting to relax. But I didn’t sit there for more than sixty seconds before my thoughts started whirring, and I couldn’t make sense of a single one of them.

I wanted to feel victorious, to bask in the glow of having succeeded in what I’d had planned for the evening.

But the look on Vince’s face, the way he’d tongued his cheek and nodded like I’d disappointed him…

It left me feeling sick.

Before I knew it, I was up and out of the room, out of my new home, taking the elevator up a few floors and walking barefoot down the hall to Vince’s door.

I knocked hard three times, knocking again when he didn’t immediately answer. I didn’t even know what I was doing. I didn’t know what I would say. Did I still want to fight? Did I want to apologize?

Did I want to fuck?

I knocked again.

When he didn’t answer, and it was suspiciously quiet inside, my heart leapt into my throat. I immediately wondered if he’d gone out, found someone, and gone home with her.

Then, I immediately chastised myself for caring, because the whole point of tonight was to cement how not his I was, and yet…

“He’s at the gym.”

I jumped at the unexpected voice, a little scream slipping from my lips. When I turned and found Jaxson at the opposite end of the hall, I sighed.

“Jesus, you scared me. You live here, too?”

“Nah, just dropped something off at Carter’s,” he explained. Then, he repeated his earlier sentiment. “Vince went to the gym, the team one at the arena. Third floor.”

I nodded, swallowing. “Is he okay?”

“Why wouldn’t he be?”

Jaxson arched a brow, giving me a pointed look like he wanted me to confess something.

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