Goal Line (Madison Howlers #4) by Camellia Tate

Author:Camellia Tate [Tate, Camellia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

DATING ANNIE WAS definitely going well. They saw each other once or twice during the week and then spent a day together over the weekend if neither of them had other stuff on. Annie had come to a few more of Devon’s games, too. It was a good start to a relationship. Devon felt happy. It must’ve showed, too, because the guys teased him about actually smiling sometimes.

“So is it her?” Ricky asked as they all changed after training one afternoon.

It took a moment for Devon to realize he was even being spoken to. When he blinked at Ricky, the guy rolled his eyes. “The girl we met outside the restaurant? Short, brunette, pretty eyes?” he listed. Devon supposed that was a fair enough description of Annie. He was tempted to argue that she had a pretty everything else, too.

“The girl who almost broke up with me because you told her I’m only dating her because of her name?” Devon clarified. Ricky’s eyes widened.

“No!” he exclaimed sounding genuinely surprised. Devon hadn’t brought it up before, mostly because Devon didn’t bring stuff up. Annie hadn’t broken up with Devon. She had actually let him explain. But he could easily imagine how much worse it could’ve gone.

“Wait, what happened?” Blake asked, throwing his dirty shirt towards his sports bag.

Out of the corner of his eye, Devon saw one of the rookies who’d been with Ricky that night shuffle. He didn’t blame any of them. If he had, Devon would’ve brought this up before - but he wasn’t going to act like it hadn’t been a shitty thing of them to do. Yes, Annie needed to know that Devon wouldn’t date her if her name didn’t match his soulmark but... He didn’t really think his teammates were the ones who should’ve told her.

“We didn’t mean anything bad by it,” Ricky defended straight away. Devon shook his head. He did know that, but that wasn’t really the point. He appreciated that Ricky looked genuinely apologetic.

Devon saw that half of the guys near them were waiting for an explanation. He cleared his throat. “Annie and I were on a date, these assholes walked by and asked if her name was Antonia since I wouldn’t date her if it wasn’t.” Devon shrugged.

He saw a few of the guys visibly flinch at that. At least he wasn’t the only one to think that was a pretty dick move. “Somewhat understandably, Annie didn’t really appreciate me only dating her for her name.” Which was not what Devon had been doing. But that, too, was not really the point here.

“We really didn’t mean it like that, Dev-O,” one of the rookies piped up.

“It’s still a fucking shitty thing to say to someone’s date,” James commented. The rookie looked down. Devon always enjoyed seeing just how much respect James and Hayden tended to get just for being older and playing centers. He had been on the team pretty much as long as either of them had and he never got those sorts of reactions.

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