Smoke Signals by Catherine Gayle

Author:Catherine Gayle [Gayle, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Catherine Gayle
Published: 2015-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

A FEW WEEKS passed, and I still couldn’t convince Tori to go through with the therapies Dr. Rodriguez had recommended. She’d been going to the studio for some ballet classes, and I’d been working out with Hunter and Dima to get ready for the season, but otherwise nothing had changed. She was still trying to convince me that her pain didn’t matter and I should fuck her in spite of it, and I was still bound and determined that I couldn’t do any such thing.

The one improvement, at least in my opinion, was that Tori had stopped attempting to get things started while I was sleeping. She’d taken to trying to jump me while we were both fully awake, instead.

I didn’t mind that she was throwing herself into it wholeheartedly. In fact, she’d started doing it while Hunter, Tallie, and Dima were around us sometimes, so that was only going to aid our cause in terms of convincing whoever needed to be convinced that we were in this for more than just a green card. The problem was that I was horny as hell all the time, now, and couldn’t do anything about it. I didn’t care how okay she told me it was—I would not be the one to cause her physical pain.

It was the middle of August now, and a few of the guys with school-aged kids were starting to show up and get settled. School would be starting next week. With them in town, it meant there were a few more showing up at the gym…and getting on the ice with us. So far, we weren’t skating too hard. Mainly we just wanted to get our skating legs back, which was never easy after a summer off the ice. Ours had been a long summer, too, since we’d finished last season in the basement of the league and hadn’t even had a whiff at the play-offs.

Anyway, now we’d added a couple guys to the mix. Jason Stewart, better known as Stewie, and his wife had three kids in elementary school. Mike Oslow’s oldest daughter was starting kindergarten this year. Ox was a guy I knew from my rookie season with the Storm, but he was new to the Thunderbirds this season.

Andrew Nash showed up a lot earlier than the rest of the guys, too, even though he didn’t have any kids in school or any other solid reason to be in Tulsa in August…only he came without his wife. “The divorce just went through last week,” he explained. “Didn’t want to stick around Oshawa right now.” Drew was one of the team’s alternate captains. He’d been distracted as hell through all of last season, though. I supposed going through a divorce was a good reason to be distracted.

“You never said a word all of last season,” I pointed out over a meal. “Had no fucking clue your marriage was on the rocks.”

He shrugged it off, like it was no big deal. That was how things tended to go with the T-Birds.

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