Defending Your Heart: A Friends to Lovers Hockey Romance (Rules of the Game Book 2) by Emma Tharp

Author:Emma Tharp [Tharp, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

Alex

“We had a great time,” I tell Cora the next day on our phone call. Sprawled out on the couch, I lie back and get comfortable. “He got us front row tickets. I think Kingston’s sweat hit me at one point during the concert.”

She laughs. “Sounds like it was a good night.”

“It was. Everything felt right with Cole. It was easy and fun.” My belly does butterflies even thinking about how good it felt being in his strong arms.

“Ooh, that’s exciting,” she says. Her voice gets muffled for a second, like she has the phone away from her ear, but I can hear her tell someone that she’s talking to me.

“Is that Derek?” I ask.

There’s the sound of liquid getting poured into a glass. “Yes, he just got home from practice.”

“Can you ask him a question for me?” I bite on my bottom lip.

“Sure, let me put you on speaker.”

“Hi, Derek,” I say, hoping I don’t sound as nervous as I feel.

The background noise of a television gets lower and lower. “Hey, Alex. I heard you and Cole went to see Lawless last night.”

I can’t help but smile. Cole told Derek about our date last night. “That’s what I wanted to ask you about. We had a really great time, but…”

“But, what?” Cora says.

“Well, it seemed like Cole was holding back. Is there something I should know about?” I’m beating around the bush, but I don’t know how else to ask the questions on my mind.

Derek lets out a soft laugh. “What do you mean?”

Standing up, I pace back and forth in my living room. “It’s just that I thought at one point he might kiss me and he didn’t. It seemed like he wanted to, but he was in his head. What I want to know is,” I sigh. “Is there some kind of team code about not dating anyone else’s ex? I can’t remember if Marcus mentioned something about that in the past.”

“Normally there is, but in your circumstance, you should be able to do whatever you want with whoever you want considering what Marcus did to you. He doesn’t deserve the same courtesies as everyone else since he’s a liar and a cheat.”

I let out a breath I didn’t even realize I was holding. “Good to know. Thank you, Derek.”

“You’re welcome. And for the record, Cole is a good dude,” Derek says.

“I know he is.” A smile spreads across my face and my heart warms.

“Okay, you’re off speaker now,” Cora tells me.

“Thanks for that. I had to know. I wanted to kiss Cole so bad last night.” There, I had to get it off my chest. I sit back down on the couch and cross my legs.

“Why didn’t you?” Her tone is cajoling. I can see her now as if she were here with me, wiggling and squirming in front of me, coaxing me to tell her.

“Well, what if he’s not interested in more than a casual date here and there? He’s a little bit hard to read.

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