Offsides (A Playing Hard Novella Book 3) by Marie Johnston

Author:Marie Johnston [Johnston, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LE Publishing
Published: 2020-01-06T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Boisterous noise filtered across the lounge. The Snowbirds had won, but it’d been close. Conner and the boys skated their asses off.

Now, they were in bed, and I sat at a big round table in the dark hotel bar with Grace to my right and Laurie to my left. Laurie’s husband and the other two dads in our group were playing a game of darts.

Grace took a swig of her beer. “I thought Coach Lennox was going to snap the sideboards before we got that last point.”

Laurie laughed. “Right? When Jordan got that penalty, I thought Coach’s glare would melt half the ice.”

Someday, I wouldn’t guiltily snap my gaze around the bar whenever someone mentioned the coach. I was meeting him in ten minutes so we could have sex in a bed with a side bonus of not worrying as badly about getting caught.

He’d texted me the room number and said he’d prop the door open so I could walk in. Explaining why I was knocking on a room that wasn’t mine would be harder to explain. Just like I didn’t want to lie to my son, I didn’t want to lie to my friends.

I wasn’t Kyle, but then again, I also wasn’t married. We had specific reasons for not sharing with anyone that we were seeing each other. Hayden had more riding on the line than I did. When I thought about it like that, I felt like less of a dirty secret.

My exit was planned, and I was counting down the minutes. There was another game in Fergus Falls. A perfect excuse to claim I needed a decent night of sleep before we had to travel again.

Grace turned to me. “So, how’s it been going so far?”

Laurie sent me a sympathetic look. “I was afraid we wouldn’t see you again until graduation.”

“Sorry about that, about not calling you back. I wanted to, but I didn’t want…”

“People all over your business,” Laurie finished. “I figured it was something like that. If it’d been Carrie…” She barked out a laugh and took a sip of her merlot. “Well, I wouldn’t have called to check on her. I would’ve been high-fiving Coach Lennox. I always thought he deserved someone better.”

Talking with Hayden about our exes was keenly different than this. This felt like gossiping behind his back. Laurie and Grace may have been worried about me, but how many others wanted to high-five Kyle about leaving me?

Grace leaned in and dropped her voice. “Did you hear that he got asked out at teacher’s conferences last year?”

“What?” Why hadn’t it occurred to me that he’d been dating? I believed him when he said he hadn’t been with anyone else. But that didn’t mean he wasn’t dating.

“I heard.” Laurie’s eyes glowed. “Her son’s a senior now, and he doesn’t play hockey. But she works at the bank on the corner.” Laurie nudged me. “He turned her down, and I heard she wasn’t the only one.”

“He’s been getting asked out? What does Mason think?”

They both shook their heads, and Grace spoke.

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