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“Do people take a lot of pictures and stuff with you guys after the game?” she asks in a slightly shaky voice.
I pull out of my parking spot. “Sometimes. It depends on the night. Don’t worry though; I won’t leave your side,” I assure her. “We don’t have to go if you don’t want to. Seriously, I will drive somewhere else.”
She furrows her brow. “No, I want to go. And I don’t want to be the reason a Nighthawks tradition is broken.”
“Are you sure? I don’t care what anyone else thinks, Nikki, only you.”
She rests her hand on my arm and takes a deep breath. “I’m positive. Plus, I want to meet your friends.”
“You got it. And don’t get too excited.” I chuckle. “They have a tendency to be assholes. But they’ll be nice to you and accept you right away. I know that for a fact.”
“They haven’t even met me yet,” she says worriedly.
“They don’t have to. I know they will love you for exactly who you are. And on the insane point-zero-zero-zero-zero-one percent chance they don’t, I’ll make them.”
“The same way you, uh, showed that guy on the ice earlier?” she asks.
“That was different. He was quite literally asking me to do it,” I say as I pull into the parking lot of End Zone.
“He asked you to hit him into the boards so hard that he couldn’t get up for a minute?” she retorts, and I can’t tell if it bothered her or not.
Throwing the car into park in a spot, I turn and face her. “He said how sweet of an ass you must have and how he would have you on your knees for him. I gave him a warning to watch his mouth, and he decided not to listen. No one gets to talk about you like that. Ever. I won’t tolerate it.”
She looks at me, taking shallow breaths with a big doe-eyed stare and parted lips. Silence builds between us as she continues to look at me while a war seems to be going on behind her eyes.
But then she is flying over the middle console, grabbing my face, and kissing me aggressively. Like she can’t get enough of me—and I fucking love it.
I cup her cheeks in my hands and kiss her just as hard back. This girl fucking owns me.
The sound of our lips smacking together fills my ears. The sound of heaven.
I run my tongue across the seam of her lips and feel them lift into a smile against mine right before she pulls away slowly.
I contemplate saying fuck it and taking her away from here, anywhere but into a room full of people. I want to keep her just to myself. If we stay alone any longer right now, I’m going to rip her fucking clothes off and devour her, but I don’t want to rush her.
“Ready?” I ask her, and she gives me a sharp nod.
She grabs her purse and gets out of the car, giving me a second to adjust my suddenly snug boxers.
As I step out of the car, the cool air seems to help calm everything down, including the bulge in my pants.
Nikki stares at the building with wide eyes.
“What are you thinking?” I ask her as I reach her, and we start walking toward the entrance.
“It just looks very busy in there, is all. I’m not used to such…crowds,” she says quietly.
“It’ll be okay. I’ve got you,” I assure her as I open the door for her, letting her step inside before me.
Kos finds my stare from across the room, and I glance down to Nikki to give him a heads-up that she’s here. Then, hopefully, he’ll give the rest a warning to behave. But the more hockey players you add together, the wilder we seem to be.
Nikki looks up at me as we make our way through the full bar toward our tables. I nod and smile at her. Taking her hand in mine, I interlock our fingers.
For the time it took me to look down to her and back up, the entire team has turned to look our way with faces of excitement and shock. They couldn’t be any more fucking obvious if they tried.
Laura is sitting next to Kos and looks like she’s vibrating in her damn seat. She’s so excited. Dear God, maybe this was a mistake. I laugh to myself. They’re a lot to take in when you first meet them.
“Oh, oh, oh. And who is this, Costy?” Brett asks, and I know damn well he’s doing this for show since he knows all about her.
