Attacking Zone (Utah Fury Hockey Book 4) by Brittney Mulliner

Author:Brittney Mulliner [Mulliner, Brittney]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2018-11-07T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Wyatt

I passed the puck back to Erik and paused in the center of the neutral zone, watching. Practice was the last thing on my mind, and I knew it was coming through in missed passes and careless mistakes.

Kendall was holding back. I couldn’t figure out why. Was it just her personality to be less open as I was? Was she hiding something? Was she really not interested in me?

No. I knew she was. She’d made that obvious. There was just something else.

She would tell me when she was ready. I couldn’t force it out of her, and I didn’t want to. When she was comfortable she would open up. In the meantime, I had to prove she could trust me. I wanted her to share with me. I wanted us to be able to lean on each other. We’re both on our own here. I wanted her to know that she didn’t have to be alone, or feel lonely. I wanted to be her person to lean on.

I was turning into a sap.

“Get your head in the game, Hartman.”

I ignored Coach and focused on getting the puck away from Malkin. We were playing a scrimmage and I’d yet to score. This was not me. I couldn’t let Kendall distract me. She made me promise her I would tell her if she did. I wasn’t going to put that on her. If my playing suffered it was my own fault, not hers.

I got the puck and turned in one motion. I broke past Brassard and Malkin and sprinted to the other end. No one else was around, so I took aim and slapped the puck into the goal. Olli shook his head and took a sip of water.

The guys playing on my team slapped my back and helmet, but I didn’t feel like celebrating. I was slipping out of control and I needed to reign it in. This close to playoffs was not the time to get sloppy.

Maybe I should tell Kendall I needed to focus for the next few weeks. She would understand. Hopefully.

I finished off the rest of practice without getting yelled at again and headed home. I needed time to relax and get a break from the team.

I just sat down when a knock sounded at the door.

Perfect.

I stood and went to the door and swung it open.

“Hi.”

Kendall stood in front of me with two white plastic bags in her hands. It was like Deja vu from the other night.

“Hi?” I glanced curiously at the bags.

“I know I probably should have called first, but I was hungry, and I figured you probably would be too. My house is too quiet so I wanted to see if you wanted to eat with me?”

She seemed so nervous which was strange. I thought we were past that. Our date had been great. Didn’t nerves die out after the first kiss?

“Yeah, of course.” I stepped back and let her in before shutting the door behind her. “What did you get?”

She walked straight to the kitchen and started opening the drawers.

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