On the Fly by Catherine Gayle

Author:Catherine Gayle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: hockey, contemporary romance, sports romance, hockey romance

I’d been racing around like a madwoman getting Tuck and Maddie dressed properly for the Storm’s Christmas party. We were finally ready to go—other than getting the buttons on Tuck’s shirt aligned with the proper button holes—when it sounded like the circus was gathering in the hall just outside our door.

In the weeks we’d been living here, I’d never heard anything close to that kind of racket. My kids and I were the exception when it came to the average residents here—most of them were singles or couples with no kids. All in all, the building was typically fairly quiet.

Easily half a dozen pairs of feet were stomping around out there. Probably more than that, truth be told. I couldn’t make out what any of the voices were saying, but they were all talking over one another, multiple conversations going on at the same time.

Tuck’s eyes lit up, and he showed off his missing-toothed grin. “Hurry up! Let’s go see what’s going on.”

Leave it to my boy to be excited about a crowd. He was easily the most social of the three of us. Maddie and I were far more inclined to keep to ourselves and stick around the house. Tuck always wanted to be in the middle of the action.

He’d hardly ever been more excited than he’d been at the game last night, surrounded by thousands and thousands of screaming fans in a jam-packed arena. I would have preferred it to be more like the Winterhawks game we’d gone to, where at least half the seats were empty and we weren’t crowded on all sides.

I hurried through fixing the last of his buttons and handed him his coat. “All right. Let’s go see.” We’d have to go out in the hall to leave, anyway.

Tuck raced ahead of me to the door, pulling his coat on as he went but getting it upside down so it covered his head more than his torso. Maddie hung back closer to me and reached for my hand. I undid the dead bolt and checked all around for Pumpkin to be sure he wasn’t going to make a mad dash for freedom as soon as I opened the door. No orange ball of fluff in sight. He wasn’t a big fan of noisy crowds, either, so hopefully he’d stay put wherever he was right now. I opened the door, and chaos reigned.

“Hi!” Tuck shouted over the din.

Two adults and six boys of different ages were crowded around Brenden and Jamie’s door. Several of them spun around at Tuck’s greeting, and I knew immediately who they were—Jamie’s family. The boys all had his out of control hair, in varying shades of blond and brown, and several shared his dimples and easy smile.

Maddie moved closer to my side than she already was, almost plastering herself to me.

The oldest boy was almost a carbon copy of Jamie, easily as tall, almost as solidly built, and every bit as adorable when he smiled down at Tuck, who’d completely abandoned me and Maddie to go immerse himself in this crowd of Babcocks.

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