Body Checked (Salt Lake Pumas #2) by Camellia Tate

Author:Camellia Tate [Tate, Camellia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Will

God, I was so stupid.

I’d promised myself not to get involved with Lacey. The way she made my heart skip a beat every time I saw her, I knew she was dangerous. Her pretty eyes and soft lips played on my mind all the fucking time. So of course, I had to go out and sleep with her.

Waking up with Lacey in my arms had been... God, it had felt so good. For a moment, after I woke up, before my brain was fully there with me, all I could think was how nice it felt to have her so close. My body spent from good sex, I’d listened to her soft breathing for a while.

Until my brain did catch up with me.

And then I did something even stupider. I left before Lacey had woken up. Snuck out of her place, without as much as leaving a note. It was... cowardly. As was the fact that I then didn’t go to pick Vega up for a morning run.

Avoiding Lacey was a ridiculous plan, I knew that. Yet that was all I could bring myself to do. I didn’t want to... hurt her. And somehow talking to her seemed more likely to do that than just... not.

Despite knowing how shitty that was, I couldn’t help it.

So I threw myself into training with as much energy as I could. The guys were almost as excited to have me back as I was excited to be back. Being on the ice made everything better. For as long as I was skating, I couldn’t be thinking about Lacey.

Of course, that wasn’t a solution; I wasn’t always on the ice. Even if I wanted to be. So I had to come up with other distractions. Tonight, that was having Luke over. I’d cooked us a meal, something that was always more challenging when Luke was involved since he was allergic to a great many things. I was excited to have found a new recipe. I didn’t often try new things, but I’d figured it might distract me.

“So, how is it?” I asked after Luke had taken a bite.

From behind his doggy gate, Teddy gave a soft growl, like he wanted to answer the question, too. I ignored him, partially in hope that not acknowledging him there might discourage him from breaking down yet another doggy gate. Two weeks after Lacey had installed it (again), Teddy was almost tall enough to tower over it.

“It’s good,” Luke answered, dipping his lamb into the sauce that I’d made. “How come you cooked something different tonight?” Damn it. I’d hoped Luke wouldn’t ask that question.

But he’d been to my house often enough to know that I usually only cooked chicken. I prepared it in different ways, but tonight I’d wanted something I would have to actually concentrate on. And a meat I didn’t often cook with had seemed the best way to achieve that.

“Are you wooing me?” Luke teased, batting his eyelashes at me. “Because your lamb is good, but it’s not that good.

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