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I sigh. Okay, yeah, that’s kind of sweet, butsonot what we agreed to mere weeks ago. I fix him with a hard look. “You told me you wanted to be the one I call when things get messy, but you’re not letting me be that person for you.”’
He opens his mouth to argue, but then closes it without saying anything, no doubt realizing I have a point.
Offering a soft smile, I link my hands around his neck and glance up at him. “We’re in this together. And that means we share stuff—the good, and the shitty. I want to know everything that’s going on with you, even if you think it might upset me.”
He nods and brushes a kiss to my temple. “Deal.”
“Are you okay?” I ask him, getting to the reason I was so annoyed. Learning secondhand that he’d been attacked like that was absolutely gutting.
Finn just blinks at me. “Why wouldn’t I be?”
My brows shoot up. “Because you were attacked last week?”
He sighs, shaking his head. “I’d hardly call it anattack.Just a prank getting out of hand.”
“Finn…”
“I’m fine,” he says, but the clench in his jaw tells me otherwise.
I rub my thumbs along the back of his neck in what I’m hoping is a soothing gesture. “You’re allowed to be angry,” I say gently.
He lets his eyes fall closed, giving a frustrated shake of his head. “Of courseI’m angry. It fucking pisses me off to see kids just casually tossing words like that around. I mean, fuck, that’s the kind of shit we were spewing twenty years ago when I was at school. I thought we’d progressed and that kids today were supposed to be smarter than we all were.”
I offer a soft smile and cant my head back toward the locker room. “The kids out there all seem pretty switched on.”
The frustration clears from his features, and he smiles back at me. “Yeah, they’re pretty good kids.”
“And they absolutelyidolizeyou,” I tease. “I’m not sure whether it’s adorable or creepy, to be honest.”
“Adorably creepy?” Finn suggests with a quirk of one brow.
I let out a soft chuckle and tilt my head up to brush my lips to his. “Sure, let’s go with that.”
Finn pulls me closer, and the kiss deepens, but before we can get carried away I feel my phone buzzing in my pocket.
I check the text and then offer Finn a bright smile. “Genie’s here. Time to get to work.”
His brows creep up. “Work?”
“Duh. Making all your players runway ready.”
His eyes widen, wariness crossing his features. “How long is it going to take, exactly? They’ve got warmups they need to be doing.”
“Don’t worry, they’ll have plenty of time to get ready for the game,” I say sweetly. “But you know it’d make things go faster if you helped us…”
Finn’s brows shoot up and he huffs out a long sigh. “Steering into the skid,” he mutters.
I grin and take his hand, tugging him out of the office and into the locker room. Like some kind of spell has been cast, the second Finn steps into the room, all the players stop joking around and turn their attention to him. Yeah, definitely adorably creepy.
“Everyone, this is Ellie,” Finn tells them, gesturing to me. “She’s going to help you with your…plan.”
“Hey, I have a question,” a kid in the front of the group asks. He’s got platinum blond hair and is quite a bit smaller than the rest of the boys—probably no taller than I am. For a second I wonder if he’s the water boy or something, but then he continues, “Won’t the makeup just smudge all over the place once we start playing and our faces get all sweaty? I don’t want to knock the ball on because I’ve got mascara running into my eye or something.”
Finn looks at me, panic in his eyes. “That’s not going to happen, right?”
I offer them all reassuring smiles. “Don’t worry, I’ve thought of that. I’ve brought in an expert to make sure all your faces stay pretty throughout the whole game.”
On cue, the door of the locker room opens and Cass walks in, escorting my friend Genie, who’s wheeling a massive suitcase.
