“What?”
“What? I’ve been wanting to tell you but you’ve been so busy lately!”
“Holy shit. You fucked and then started dating? Isn’t that kinda backwards?”
“Yeah, but it’s working out okay,” I say seriously, throwing in a little shrug.
“I slept with Daniel.”
“What?”
“Yeah,” Sully says with a wince. “It just kinda happened? I went into heat while at an away game and he helped me through it.” He looks up at me. “Right. So. I’m kind of an omega but the suppressants I use keep my scent toned down so everyone just assumes I’m a beta.”
“Yeah, I already knew that,” I tell him quickly, still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Sully and Daniel slept together. Sully has beenpiningfor a while over this guy!
“Wait, how’d you know?”
I tap my nose. “I can smell your suppressants.”
“Oh,” he says, still staring at me, waiting for my reaction.
“I cannot believe you slept together. Holy shit. How was it?”
“Pretty fucking good,” he admits, thanking the bartender for our beers and sliding mine over to me.
“And how are things now?”
“The same as usual,” he says with a pout. “Like we somehow just fucked as friends or something? I don’t know. It’s so stupid. Now that I’ve seen him naked, I am bona fidein lovewith him.”
“Have you thought about telling him that?”
“Yes! Give me a little credit here, Kei!”
“Then why haven’t you?”
Sully pauses, thinking for a moment before finally saying, “okay, so hear me out.”
“I’m listening,” I say slowly.
“He asked me to help him through his heat that’s coming up. You know, like a tit for tat or whatever. I can’t tell him I’m in love with him before that. He’s counting on me!”
“Oh my gods,” I say with a groan. “You’re both idiots. You don’t just go through your cycle with someone without having feelings for them!”
“Plenty of people do it!”
“This is dumb. You’re being dumb.”
Sully pinches my arm hard enough to make me yelp. “Yeah, Iknow,” he says finally, sticking out his bottom lip in a pout. “But I’m gonna do it anyway. Afterwards, I’ll tell him I’m in love with him. Or maybe I’ll wait until the season is over, that way it doesn’t get weird. If he hates me, I’ll have time to transfer to a new team or something.”
“Sully,” I say seriously. “I’ve seen the way that man looks at you. I think you’re too stuck in your head.Talkto him.”
“I will, I will! And if it all goes to shit, you better make room for me in that giant house of yours.”
I snort, shaking my head. “Of course. What else are friends for?”
Chapter Thirteen
Shiloh
