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Ugh.
Irritation rippled through me. I didn’t want to be thinking about their stupid bunny scale. It was a disgusting display of misogyny upholding the stereotype that college guys were nothing more than shallow, sex-obsessed dumbasses who thought more with their dicks than their brains. That the girls who lusted after them were nothing more than sexual objects put on the earth purely for their entertainment.
Part of me had a good mind to go down there and applaud him for proving himself every bit the player I’d heard he was. But I didn’t want to embarrass myself or the girl he was currently entertaining.
So I lay there, trying my best not to listen. While one hundred and ten percent absolutely not wondering what it must be like to be one of them.
The pretty popular girls.
The cheerleaders and the puck bunnies.
The girls who always got the guy.
I thought I’d been that girl once. That my luck was finally changing. That for the first time in my life, a guy saw past my body hang-ups, my imperfections and my flaws and only saw me. But it was all a lie. He’d only been settling until something better came along.
He’d been my forever boy, and I’d been his good-enough-for-now girl.
And the kicker was, I always knew.
Deep down, I knew I wasn’t good enough for him. I’d wanted so much to believe it, though.
I’d wanted it to be real.
I’d wanted—
“Fuck, Fallon, yes. Yes, baby.”
Oh. My. God.
Noah was with her—the girl from earlier.
I don’t know what disappointed me more. That Noah was exactly like I’d assumed him to be.
Or that I even cared.
CHAPTER 8
NOAH
“Yes, yes… fuck, yes.”
“That’s how you do it, baby!” I leaned over and high-fived Mase while Leon and Ward cried into their controllers.
“There’s no way you just pulled that off,” Leon complained. “We were five points ahead.”
“The scoreboard says otherwise.” I grinned, flipping him off.
I’d been hanging at Lakers House all day. Connor had taken Ella to the beach, and Austin had a thing, and I didn’t want to be home alone with Aurora. Not after the other day outside Joe’s.
We’d been avoiding each other—or more so, she was avoiding me, which suited me fine. Aurora Hart got under my skin in a way most girls didn’t. And I didn’t like it.
Sure about that, Holden?
I silenced the little voice of doubt. The only thing I needed to remember was that she was Austin’s sister. She couldn’t be more off-limits if she tried. Besides, she took serious issue with hockey players and their sexual habits. I’d heard her and Austin arguing over the guys’ puck bunny scale. Schooling him on what a bunch of misogynistic horseshit it was.
It didn’t surprise me Connor had told her. He couldn’t keep his mouth shut about anything since he convinced Ella to give him a second chance. It was probably all part of her plan to overhaul the team’s approach to women, sex, and dating.
“How are things at casa de la Hart?” Ward asked. “You fucked the sister yet?”
