Power Play by Avon Gale

Author:Avon Gale [Gale, Avon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63477-244-0
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

THE SPITFIRES played well as the calendar inched toward Christmas, and whatever Misha was doing with Drake for those extra practices was clearly paying off. Drake was focused in net, and while he wasn’t quite his usual fiery self, he seemed to be at least on top of things. There were no more parking lot encounters with shady men—or at least none that Max was there to witness.

Belsey spent most of the early part of December vacationing in Cabo San Lucas with Anna, the marketing intern. According to Kim, the actual marketing coordinator, Anna didn’t appear to market much of anything but her ass in tight skirts. But Kim said it was for the best, since Anna kept Belsey too busy to interfere with her attempts to market the Spitfires in a way that didn’t involve injury or bench brawls.

Max assumed that Belsey would also be too busy sexing up interns in Cabo to worry much about the Spitfires, but that wasn’t true. One of the annoying things about Belsey was that he wasn’t a hands-off general manager. He liked to check in and see how things were going. He just didn’t think he needed to stay in the same country or respect things like international time zones to do so.

Max worried about leaving Misha for Christmas, but he promised to go to his brother Scott’s house in St. Paul and had to leave his broody Russian boyfriend at home. He knew Misha would have been more than welcome to join them, considering how much both his parents liked him. But Max had no idea how to bring that up or whether he should tell his family about Misha before dragging him to holiday functions. Because if he did that—when he did that—he didn’t want there to be any doubt they were together.

Max’s brother, Scott, was older than Max by four years. While Max took after their mother and was tall, athletic, and somewhat academically challenged, Scott was more like their father. He had a shorter, leaner frame and a talent for math and science. Scott was a seventh grade math teacher, and without him Max probably wouldn’t have passed math when he was in the seventh grade.

Scott’s wife, Vanessa, was a warm, friendly woman with a beaming smile who always seemed to be pregnant. Max had two nephews, a niece, and—as he learned soon after putting his luggage down—another on the way. Damn it. He should have brought Misha after all. He could have just snuck his announcement in with Scott and Van’s.

Vanessa and Suzanne Ashford had been close since the first moment they met. As Max watched the two of them giggling in the kitchen, he wondered again if his mother had liked Emma.

She’d been perfectly nice to Emma. But Max couldn’t remember ever finding the two of them laughing or enjoying each other’s company. And he wasn’t sure he’d ever seen Emma talk that much to Vanessa either. Scott had been married to Vanessa for almost ten years, and in some ways, Max knew her a lot better than he’d known his own fiancée.

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