Cold as Ice by Cassandra Carr

Author:Cassandra Carr [Carr, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Menage a Quatre (M/F/M/M), Menage Amour
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2012-03-11T22:22:45+00:00

Chapter Eight

A few days later Carter watched helplessly as another goal got by Leo. What was with him today? Normally both of the Intimidators’ goalies were solid and dependable. Leo was anything but dependable today, though. Tom was screaming from the bench, and Carter figured Leo’s night was over. He was right.

The other goaltender, Scott, came in to the game, and the team hunkered down to try to score. They were down by three with a little less than half of the game left. Carter left the ice and collapsed on the bench, pulling much-needed oxygen into his screaming lungs, when he saw a flurry of movement out of the corner of his eye. He and the other guys stood up to see what was happening, but Carter couldn’t see what had caused the commotion.

Then he heard words that made his blood run ice-cold. “Leo’s down! Leo’s down!”

What the fuck did that mean? Leo was on the bench. How could he be down? Play had been away from the bench, so he couldn’t have gotten hit with a puck or something.

He turned to Luc, who was a few inches taller. “Can you see?”

“No. I’m going over there.” Luc hopped over the boards and skated to the opposite end of the bench. He was the captain and Carter wasn’t surprised he wanted to be there if one of the guys was in trouble, which it certainly appeared Leo was. The team doctor scrambled out of the stands. Play had long since stopped, and as Carter looked around at his teammates, he saw expressions ranging from fear to disbelief.

“He just collapsed! Fell backward,” one of his teammates said to another.

“They used the smelling salts and he didn’t even move. Shit,” said another.

Carter knew stuff like this happened—guys collapsing on the bench. Hell, a few years ago Jiri Hudler had almost died in Detroit, and Ondrej Pavelec, a goaltender who was playing in Atlanta at the time, had gone down right in the crease during a game and things had been pretty dicey for him, too.

Shit! Is Leo dying?

He and the other guys had just been to the commitment ceremony for Leo and Scott and their woman, Kelly, a few months ago. He couldn’t die!

“What’s happening?” he demanded to no one in particular.

One of the assistant coaches turned to him briefly. “Looks like he fainted, but they’re not taking any chances.”

Carter chewed on his mouthpiece as he watched and waited. Scott had shouldered his way between everybody and was trying to lean down despite the heavy goaltending equipment he wore. Carter saw Kelly hightailing it toward Leo and shouted, “Kelly’s coming!” He didn’t want her to be unnecessarily upset if Leo didn’t look so good. Carter still couldn’t see the other man and had no idea if he was even conscious.

Scott must’ve heard his shout because he looked into the stands. He held up a hand, presumably to stop her, but Kelly pointed at the usher, who shrugged and helped her down to ice level.

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