Cross Checked by Love: An Enemy to Lovers Hockey Romance Novella (Blue Line) by Carolina Mac

Author:Carolina Mac [Mac, Carolina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Saturday, October 7th.

Georgia

I woke up when I heard the knocking on the door, and I hoped it wasn’t Jax again. I liked him a lot, but I had to get ready for work and there was a part of the song I was working on that I wanted to fiddle with a little more. Hard to do your best work when somebody is staring at you.

I ran to the door and opened it a bit roughly because I wasn’t in the mood for company. Jax had already used up too much of my practice time.

“Howie. Didn’t expect to see you standing there. What do you want?”

“Nothing, Georgia. I don’t want anything. Just came to apologize for the way I’ve been acting. Been a little out of my head since I first saw you, and I acted like an asshole… and I’m sorry.”

“I’m also sorry about the way I reacted when you hurt Jaxon. I hardly know him, but it just caught me the wrong way and made me so mad that you would hurt another person on purpose. Moreso—a guy on your own team. I think that’s what put me over the edge.”

Howie’s hand went to his face, and he winced. “I’m on a two-game suspension so I can’t play tonight even though I want to.”

“Jax mentioned it.”

“Would you be okay with it if I came to Jerseys and just sat there? Promise I’ll be on my best behavior.”

I laughed. “Public bar. Anybody can come in for a beer as long as they don’t disturb the peace.”

“I won’t.”

He glanced past me and saw my guitar and banjo both on their stands. “You play both of those?”

“Yeah, and a little piano, but it’s at home in Ohio at my parents’ house and was too big to bring in my Honda.”

He smiled and I had forgotten how cute he was. “I play bass guitar and sing a bit. Music is my first love, but I got into university on a hockey scholarship, so I have to try to balance it out.”

“No kidding? You’re a musician? I never would’ve guessed that.” I don’t know why I did it, but I opened the door a little wider and let Howie Lintz into my apartment…voluntarily.

On my guard, in case he tried to touch me or make any other stupid moves, but he didn’t. He sat down and asked me all kinds of questions about my music and the songs I wrote, and how long I’d been trying to get a start in the music business. We talked and talked, like real people, and time just flew.

“I’d love to play one of your songs with you, Georgia. Sometime you have a couple of hours when we could get together.”

“That might be fun. I don’t know any other musicians here in Austin and I don’t have anybody to practice with. I’m practicing hard alone right now because I talked to Dooley O’Rourke at Jerseys, and he said he’d try to free up a couple of hours for me this week.

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