Taking a Knee by Sean Ashcroft

Author:Sean Ashcroft [Ashcroft, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lgbt, Gay, Romantic Comedy, Literature & Fiction, Sports, genre fiction, gay romance, Gay & Lesbian, romance, Fiction, MM, 1056
Amazon: B01MA5JYRJ
Goodreads: 32701145
Published: 2016-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Joe was exactly as Noah remembered him—tall, dark, and gorgeous. His smile was still capable of lighting up a room, and it was directed straight at Noah the moment he saw him. Everyone in the locker room looked over to see who the new guy was.

Noah rushed in for a bone-crushing hug, laughing the whole time. Sometimes, he wished things had worked out between them, but what they wanted from life was too different. Joe was always flying off to some business meeting far away, and Noah, well… he valued quiet evenings in front of the TV too much to deal with it. Joe had told him once that he was never going to settle down, not until the Grim Reaper caught up with him. That was the moment Noah knew their relationship wasn’t going anywhere.

He was glad they’d stayed friends, though. Especially right now.

“You haven’t aged a day!” Joe enthused, pulling back from the hug to look at him, keeping both hands on his shoulders. Joe was an intensely physical man, and Noah had always liked that about him. He liked to be touched.

“It’s been less than a year since I last saw you, so I hope not.” Noah grinned.

“So I hear you’re married now? Is the lucky sonofabitch here, or…?” Joe looked around for a likely candidate. He was in for a surprise.

“That would be me,” Jace said, offering his hand. Joe shook it enthusiastically. He was obviously not heartbroken that Noah had moved on, which was good. Noah had experienced enough jealousy lately to last him a lifetime.

“I hope you know how well you did.” Joe beamed at him. “I tried to snatch Noah up when I had my chance, but he wouldn’t have me. You must be something really special.”

“He is,” Noah said. Jace was special, though Noah was sure now that he couldn’t see it. After their conversation about being afraid of approaching people, Noah realized that Jace wasn’t really aware of how wonderful he was.

He would have loved the opportunity to show Jace exactly what he thought of him, but Jace had been quiet and distant since the incident with Rafe. Noah had put it down to processing and figured Jace wasn’t the kind of guy who wanted to talk everything to death all the time.

It seemed more important than ever to win this game, though. That would almost certainly help Jace’s mood.

“So what do they call you? Out there, I mean?” Jace nodded in the direction of the stadium.

“Destructo Joe.” Joe grinned. “You’ll see why.”

“Get dressed.” Noah instructed, pointing to Joe. “I have to give a pep talk.”

Noah climbed onto one of the benches in the middle of the room and whistled loudly to get everyone’s attention. Most people at least nodded in acknowledgement, which he knew was as good as he was going to get.

Team captain he might have been, but he’d lost a lot of support over the last few weeks because of all the crap that had gone on. He needed that back if they were going to come out on top this season.

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