Unadulterated Something by M.J. Duncan

Author:M.J. Duncan [Duncan, M.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-23T23:00:00+00:00

“You gonna let them go early?”

Emma’s stomach flipped at the feeling of Campbell’s breath against her ear, and she licked her lips as she glanced over at her. “Why? Big plans tonight?” she teased.

“Not really. Just supposed to have dinner with this woman I work with,” Campbell drawled. She was clearly trying to look put-out by the whole thing, but the laughter dancing in her eyes ruined the effect. “Honestly, I don’t know why I agreed to it, but—”

Emma chuckled and looked back at their teams that were running through three-v-two drills at each end of the ice. For as quickly as the days passed in a crush of lectures and meetings and practices and life in general, the overwhelming rush of time seemed to slow whenever she was with Campbell, and she found herself addicted to the moments where it was just the two of them and the rest of the world all but disappeared.

Which was a problem.

Not because Campbell was, well, Campbell, but because she was still overthinking. She had come to terms with the fact that she had somehow, unexpectedly, developed a rather significant crush on her most prolific rival. The problem with that lay in the fact that they were colleagues who, essentially, lived on a very small, very nosy island, and if she did something about her feelings and that something went badly, there would be no escaping it.

She liked Campbell. She liked the friendship they’d developed. And, as improbable as it might have seemed at the beginning of the school year, she wasn’t at all sure if she could handle losing that.

So instead of just reaching out and pulling Campbell close enough that she could taste her smile like she’d caught herself daydreaming about when they’d sat together at lunch, she scoffed and said, “Nice try, Jordan, but I distinctly recall it being your idea to skip the dining hall tonight and order Chinese. Or was that just an excuse for you to get access to my Prime account so you can see the last episode of Good Omens?”

Campbell shrugged, her smile was unapologetic as she said, “I plead the fifth.”

“Of course you do.” Emma looked at the clock behind the near goal. There was still close to half an hour left on their final practice of the week, but with a five-day hiatus on the horizon for Thanksgiving break, there was no reason to make the kids log a full session. “But sure. Why not,” she said, finally answering Campbell’s initial question. She blew her whistle to get the team’s attention, and held up a hand when the girls stopped what they were doing to look at her. “That’s it for today. Those of you who aren’t leaving tonight for the weekend, I’ll be in the weight room at seven tomorrow morning if you’d like to get another lifting session in. It’s completely voluntary—and I really do mean that in the ‘you don’t actually have to come if you don’t want to’ kind of way and not the ‘it’s really not a choice’ kind of way.

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