A Hockey Player's Proposal (Oh Captain, My Captain #2) by Lindsay Paige & Mary Smith

Author:Lindsay Paige & Mary Smith [Paige, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lindsay Paige and Mary Smith
Published: 2014-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Selene

Brody must've had a busy day because he’s already fallen asleep. My mind can’t begin to focus on any one thing right now. Where do I start? He bought me a car, admitted feelings for me, and then fucked me senseless. I don’t really know what to think. I want to talk this over, but it’s late and I rather not call Allison. Brody said we’re friends, and I need a friend. Rolling over to face him, I take a moment to cherish how adorable he looks sleeping. His lips are parted as he slightly snores and with his eyes closed, you can see how long his eyelashes are.

“Brody?” I whisper.

He squeezes his arms tighter, not opening his eyes as he sleepily says, “Yeah, babe?”

First baby and now babe? I would giggle if the purpose of me waking him up in the first place wasn’t looming over me. When I don’t say anything right away, he opens his eyes.

“Everything okay?” He squints, worried.

“I need to talk to my friend.”

That wakes him up. He tugs me closer, kisses the tip of my nose, and asks, “What’s up?”

I don’t know if it’s because of the sweet innocence of his kiss or because he didn’t ask what was wrong, but instead, ‘What’s up?’, but I get the urge to call Allison and gush over this man. Pushing that to the side, I focus on what I want to talk about.

“Can you be Brody, my friend, and not the Brody who’s spending the night and buying me a car? Just for right now.”

“Of course. Talk, Selene. I’ll listen.”

To make it less weird than it already is, I talk about him like he’s someone else. “Okay, so there’s this guy I know and like,” his lips quirk into a smile, “and he would like to date me.”

“But?” he questions goodnaturedly as if I’m not talking about us.

“I’m scared,” I whisper. “You see, he has a stalker who seems to have it out for me and it’s worrying me more than I would like to admit to him. It’s a disturbance between us that’s making everything even more complicated. But that’s not my biggest worry.”

“And what is that?” Brody is doing a really good job at looking like the concerned friend.

With a deep breath, I keep going. “He’s been hurt before and while I know I wouldn’t hurt him in that way, I don’t want to hurt him at all. Ever.” During my pause to evaluate his reaction, Brody speaks.

“I’m sure he trusts you better than anyone not to hurt him. So maybe you should let him worry about that.”

I close my eyes for this next part. “And what about me?”

“You should let him worry about that too.”

Ignoring him and the urge to smile, I continue, “There’s something else. He’s this big shot hockey player and that ties him to the one thing in my life that means the most to me. When we started sleeping together, I was worried that he was going to affect that, but he didn’t.

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