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“Fine. You didn’t know he was married.” Ryan glanced over at her. Could she really be that naïve? “So, how did you say you met Andy again?”
“He came in with your press liaison and a couple of other players to discuss the team volunteering where I work, and we kind of hit it off.”
“Where do you work?”
“I’m the coordinator at Kidsplay.”
“Like the kids’ sports program the team is partnering with?”
A smile split across her face. “Yeah, I found out this week that we were chosen. It’s going to be so amazing for those kids.”
“And I guess hooking up with Andy was a nice perk. He must have really gone to bat for your program for them to pick it. Nicely done.”
“Okay, seriously, you need to stop the car now.”
“What? Why?”
“Are you flipping kidding me? You just called me a whore.”
“No, I didn’t?”
“Oh my god, are you serious? Stop the car.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. We’re almost there.”
“I said stop the car. Now.”
“This is so dumb,” he muttered. “Don’t you think you are being a bit dramatic?” He pulled the car to the side of the road and stopped.
“No, I don’t. What I think is you are a judgmental jerk. You just met me, and yes, I’ll admit it wasn’t under the best circumstances, but you don’t know me. So you can take your ride and your holier than though attitude and shove it.” She pushed open the car door and slammed it shut behind her.
The cars behind him honked its horn to get him to move. He watched Peyton storm off down the street and debated going after her.
“Move your car, asshole,” a voice yelled from a vehicle behind him, followed by a long horn that quickly was matched by several other vehicles following suit. Fuck it. He glanced over his shoulder and threw the car into gear.
He looked over at Peyton stomping down the street as he drove past. His chest tightened. Was she right? Was he being a judgmental asshole? Probably. But what did he have to go on? She was sleeping with a married man.
In this day and age when you started dating someone, it was just common practice to look the person up online. There’s no way this woman hadn’t done the same thing with aprofessional athlete. Come on. Before his sister had dated Pete, she’d practically cyber-stalked every guy she ever dated to make sure he wasn’t some kind of weird serial killer. Then and only then would she consider meeting him in a very public place for coffee. Peyton couldn’t tell him she didn’t do the same thing. She might try to play the victim now, but there was no way she hadn’t done her research. He wasn’t buying it.
He rubbed his hand against his chest. So why did he feel like such an asshole?
Fuck. Because he’d been a dick.
Whether or not he had that opinion, he shouldn’t have voiced it out loud. He’d been raised better than that. Shit. And now that the team had agreed to partner with her organization, it’s not like he’d never see her again. They were going to have to work together at some point.
Guess he was going by the youth center to make amends. Apparently, Andy wasn’t the only one needing to buy some flowers for a certain gorgeous blonde.
Monday morning Peyton pulled her car into a spot outside the youth center and got out.
“Pey—ton,” a voice called from the group of teens resting against the side of the building. “Morning, what are you all doing here so early?” she asked as she walked up to the five boys.
“School was canceled. Some threat or something, so we’re hoping we could mess around in the gym,” Jesse the ringleader of the group replied.
“Mess around? No. Use the weights appropriately? Yes.”
“Ah shit, Pey, you know that’s what I meant.”
“Oh, I know.” She made eye contact with each of the boys and smiled at the group. “Depending on who else shows up today, maybe we can get a pickup game going later or something.”
