JP bit his lip.
“Your husband’s teammate thinks you’re hot.”Mike wrinkled his nose, twisted his lips.
Ian smiled, the expression a little warmer than he’d love, but nothing JP could bitch about.“Thanks, Castle.I appreciate.”
“Castle?”Mike blinked hard enough JP could swear he heard it.
Angus nodded.“Name’s Castlewood.Castle’s better than Woody.”
“Not that we don’t use that when he’s being an ass.”JP just had to share that little tidbit.
“You’re just jealous that I have a prodigious?—”
Ian cleared his throat.“How is your puzzle, Petey?”
“So fun!”
JP felt his cheeks heat, and he gave Ian a glance that he meant as an apology for not being more careful with the kids in the room.“How about we play some cards?”
“Sounds perfect.Mike, can you shuffle?”Ian winked at him, relaxing back into his chair.“Rummy?Spades?Hearts?”
“Not poker; Woody cheats.”JP sat back, waiting for Angus’s spluttering to start.All in all, it was turning out to be a great visit with the man.
ChapterTwenty-Seven
Ian had to admit, he’d been worried about Angus coming over.
He didn’t want someone convincing JP to head back to Florida, not when the decision was so new that it wasn’t set.
But it had been a great visit — Angus was retiring, was looking for property here, and had left with a pinched looking Michael.
JP was reading to Tori, and he’d taken Peter, who had fallen asleep before the second page, his son just worn out by the day with goodbye to grandparents and Angus’s visit.Tori was not asleep yet, he could hear her asking JP all sorts of questions about Angus in particular and hockey in general.
“—so you putted the puck in the hole?—”
“Net.”
“In the hole net?And?—”
JP interrupted.“Just the net.”
“You putted all of them?”
“What?No.I put a lot of pucks in but?—”
“No.”
Ian peeked in to see Tori frown.
“You putted in all the holes.”
“Baby, it’s a net.”
She rolled her eyes.“With holes.You do that, and the goaler-hockey-puckers says no goes to make a hole in the net with the pucker.”
JP made a strangled noise, and then, “Something like that.”
He decided to rescue JP.“Ladybug, the nets come with the holes in them already.”
