Playing for Keeps: An Enemies to Lovers Sports Romance by Stephanie Queen

Author:Stephanie Queen [Queen, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Tate

Sean and I don’t talk about it. There’s a tacit agreement between us that we keep the incident at Louie’s to ourselves. I owe him for saving my ass and I owe Louie. I’ll need to have a talk with Louie as soon as I can get out of this locker room and get over there.

Hunter and Gabe expect to go to Louie’s for the usual postgame dinner tonight and I need to get there before them to make sure everything is cool. To make sure I’m still welcome. To promise Louie that Chloe won’t be returning any time soon.

Stripping off my jersey, I’m not sure how I’m going to make good on that promise, but have to try.

“Good game,” Hunter says, leaning against my locker with his pads still on. I decide he’s not trying to be ironic even though I only played four snaps in the second quarter.

“Sure, if by ‘game’ you mean less than five minutes of one quarter.” But I smile because we won and the torture of preseason is over. Next game is official and it’s only four days away. Thursday night football, game one of the season. Hunter looks around the locker room, not going anywhere. It’s blessedly media free tonight. The press has been limited to the postgame press conference and catching up with whoever they can in the tunnel. Coach Marini has a postgame speech planned to transition the team with the final roster into the official start of the season.

“What’s on your mind?” I sit and take off my cleats.

“The dinner is on. Friday night.”

It takes me a beat to realize he’s talking about the matchmaking dinner, my blind date that Cat promised to fix me up with. Finally. I’d almost forgotten about it. Relief and a mix of other feelings simmer up, but I know I need this. Need someone to take my mind of damn Chloe Smith.

“Great.”

“We timed it so there would be plenty of time for recovery with the extra days after the Thursday night game.”

“Recovery from what?” I snort a laugh. “It’s just dinner. I’ll be drinking water.”

He wiggles his brows up and down comically and says, “In case you get lucky.”

I laugh full-out. “I’ve never been that lucky in my life. Not enough to miss practice the next day.”

Sean comes over dressed in his street clothes already because he probably didn’t bother with a shower, having never stepped on the playing field after the initial run from the tunnel.

“I heard the matchmaking dinner is on for Friday night.” He gives me a look.

“Quintanna just told me,” I say.

“You still cool with it?”

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

Sean shrugs and Hunter says, “Does this have something to do with the fiasco last night at Louie’s?”

I shoot a look at Hunter, who crosses his arms over his chest and smiles one of those I got you smiles.

“Who told you?”

“It’s all over social media, man. Don’t you ever check your Twitter feed?” Hunter shakes his head, still smiling so it can’t be that bad.

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