Hooked by Love (Bellevue Bullies #3)

Author:Toni Aleo [Aleo, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Toni Aleo
Published: 2015-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

“I thought your last name was Rose?”

She looks at me, her eyes unsure as she slowly shakes her head. “No, Rose is my middle name.”

“So it’s Haverbrooke?”

She nods, her eyes full of confusion, and I’m dumbfounded.

All I can do is stare at her.

What.

The.

Ever.

Loving.

Fuck.

Surely.

Surely, I heard her wrong.

But when I glance across the table at my brothers, hoping for some kind of answer, Jude is laughing from his gut and Jayden is crying with tears of laughter. But that’s not all. No, Baylor’s eyes are wide and panicked, and Coach’s mouth is still gaping open. Fuck, I have a feeling I heard her just fine. Which explains why my heart is jackhammering against my ribs, I can’t breathe, and I’m two seconds from a panic attack.

“Why is this a big deal?” my mom asks. “Why is everyone laughing? River, honey, what’s wrong?”

“It’s not—” Avery tries, but Coach’s voice goes over hers.

“Her dad is the commissioner of the NHL. Autumn, he runs…shit, everything!”

“Oh wow,” my mom says. “How awesome for you.”

“Hardly,” I hear Avery whisper, but I’m still unable to move.

Trying to process this, I close my eyes, hoping that when I wake up, this will all be a dream. It has to be.

“Jeez, Jace, you really know how to go big or go home, huh?” Jayden laughs, shaking his head as I look up to glare at him.

Not a dream. Shit.

“And I thought I was hot shit going after the first female in male college hockey. Ha! You topped me.”

“Shut up, Jayden,” Baylor spits, worry still in the depths of her wide hazel eyes. “But, really? Hockey royalty?”

“It’s not a big deal,” Avery says from beside me, but I can’t even.

“Ha! Yeah, it is,” Jude barks before looking back at me. “You know how to pick them, bro. No wonder you’re so confident you’ll go first! You have the fucking commissioner in your back pocket,” Jude wheezes, but then he pauses. “I don’t mean that disrespectfully to you, Avery. I’m just busting Jace’s chops.”

I lean on my hand, my heart still jackhammering. I feel Avery looking at me, but I’m still trying to believe this is happening. The commissioner? Really?

“He didn’t know,” Avery says then, which stops the laughter. I feel her shift uncomfortably in her chair, and all eyes fall on me. “It isn’t a big deal to me the way it is to you guys, so I don’t talk about it. I’m not close with my family.”

Silence falls over the table, and she is still fidgeting anxiously in her chair. I know I should say something, reassure her it’s okay, but it’s not. How could she not tell me something like this? Doesn’t she realize that is important information to give your hockey-playing boyfriend, whose dreams are to be in the NHL? I would never use her to get ahead, but shit, I would still want to know stuff like that.

“You’re right,” I hear Lucy say, but it’s very muffled since my heartbeat is hurting my eardrums. “And you shouldn’t have to.

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