Thin Ice by Stephanie Nichole

Author:Stephanie Nichole [Nichole, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kingston Publishing Company
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Camreigh

I thought I was prepared for this whole red-carpet situation, but I was wrong, so very wrong. The flashes, the hollering, and posing-- it’s all so overwhelming. Thankfully, Bodhi handles it so well it puts me at ease. Finally, I’m able to step away while Bodhi works his magic with reporters in front of the cameras. I watch him from the backdrop behind the red carpet where I’m waiting with his publicist.

As I watch him, I’m kind of in awe of him. He seems so comfortable in his own skin, so confident with his words, that’s something I envy. I’ve never been good with words; unless they are written. I was never the confident, social butterfly that he seems to be.

I also admire his love for these charities that he’s involved with. When he talks about them or hockey, he lights up in a whole new way. He’s something to witness. It makes me want to watch him play a game and that’s a lot coming from me. Bodhi is making me consider all sorts of things that I swore I never would.

Ever since that day in the dress store, I haven’t been able to not think about him and what he’s doing, what he’s feeling. It’s ridiculous really, because I’ve seen the girls that he normally keeps around for company. There’s been plenty of them and they all grace the Google search I did on him. I could say the most recent Google search was for research purposes, but it was completely selfish. I wanted to see him, so I did. Then my curiosity got the best of me and I added girlfriend to the search, and man did I get the pictures then. Pictures on top of pictures. It was a lot to take in. Then the realization that I look nothing like any of them hit me. He said we had an attraction that I was trying to deny, but what if his attraction is more of wanting what you can’t have? I have my doubts about his attraction now, but I can’t deny mine anymore. I’m over here falling for a jock, the one type of guy I swore I never would.

I sigh and step back around the backdrop to give myself a minute to get myself together. I’m being ridiculous. I haven’t actually fallen for Bodhi. I’m just spending an unusual amount of time with him. I’m seeing a side that I didn’t know existed. I had placed every athlete into this very stereotypical jock category that suited Zak just fine, and I went into this project assuming Bodhi would be the same, but he is very different from the idea that I had in my head. I just like the idea of Bodhi and not actually him. Or, at least, that’s what I’m going to keep telling myself.

I smell his cologne before he ever appears around the other side of the backdrop. He faces me and smiles. “You survived,” he tells me.

I nod. “I did.

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