Page 91 of Risky Play

“Well, look who it is!” he exclaimed.

I gave him a head nod. “Hey, Ty.”

He pointed between me and Maddie. “You two ran out at the Halloween party, and I couldn’t grill you about this.”

I rolled my eyes. “Fuck you, man.”

He cackled like the dick he was. Maddie looked amused. He nudged her. “Your boy’s so sensitive. You've been chaining him up in your bed? Is that why he’s been ignoring me?”

Maddie's cheeks went red at his joke.

“Ty,” I warned.

“What? There’s nothing wrong with a little bondage. Don’t be prude.”

“He’s not,” Maddie managed to squeak out while trying hard not to laugh. God, if only Ty knew.

Ty waggled his eyebrows. “Oh, really?”

“Stop it. What you want, asshole?” I asked.

“Come to the hockey house and party with us tonight.”

I looked over at Maddie, silently asking her, and she shrugged.

“You can bang each other later. I haven’t seen you in weeks,” Ty whined.

I shook my head at him. “Dude, you’re needy.”

“I am. Hey, Lu-lu said she’s coming to visit soon. This is practice for when she gets here.”

I gave him a stern look. “You’re not, under any circumstances, taking Luna to a kegger. You got me?”

He nudged Maddie. “He’s so easy to rile up. Come on, you fools, let’s go!”

He whirled away as quickly as he came.

I stared at the empty space where he had just been sitting, and Maddie giggled. “Is he always like that?”

I groaned. “Unfortunately. We don’t have to go if you don’t want to.”

She gave me a bright smile. “I’m down. Could be fun.”

“Alright, then let’s go.”

Truth be told, I felt like a dick ignoring Ty, and he kept hounding me after seeing each other at the Halloween party when I collected Maddie. He put on that party boy front, but Ty was still hurting over his breakup. People assumed because of his personality, he was a douchey athlete who fucked anything that moved, but Ty and Elsa had been together forever. He’d never admit it, but he had really loved her. No offense to Elsa, but I don’t think she ever felt the same way.

“Let’s go,” Maddie insisted. “We never hang out with your friends.”

To be fair, we didn’t hang out with hers all that much either.

“Okay, let’s roll.”

I helped her with her coat and slid her hand in mind. We found Ty outside waiting for us, and we walked together to the hockey house.

We could hear the house from a mile away. I did enough partying as a hockey player that I don’t think I missed much from not having the college experience. We walked inside, and Ty screamed at the top of his lungs that the party had arrived.

I shook my head.