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A flight attendant brings Camden a drink and he lowers his tray. She passes the glass across me and I smell bourbon. I should order a drink, but I’m not feeling it tonight. Instead, I ask her for a mint tea.
“Lame ass,” Camden teases before taking a sip from the highball glass.
“Fuck off.” I put my earbuds in so I can’t hear any reply but I do see the smirk on his face. Flipping through my music library, I choose theWhite Album, set it to shuffle and bop along to “Blackbird.” I lower my tray and move over to my text messages.
Glancing around, I see Camden’s engrossed in his own phone but other players are brushing by me, so I’m careful when I pull up the string I have going with Kiera. Within the various messages we’ve sent each other since I left on this extended road trip yesterday are a few sexy pictures. She’s fucking brilliant at sexting and never sends me anything outwardly obscene, plus she never shows her face. It might be just her breasts, plumped up in a sexy bra. She sent me one last night of her lying back on her bed, feet on the floor. She had on a tank top and I could just see the swell of her breasts and the skin of her lower belly, but that wasn’t the focus of the picture. Kiera had propped her phone against something on her bedside table so most of the view was of her hand down the front of her panties. Her legs were slightly spread and I couldn’t see anything explicit, but it was the message that came with it.
Thinking of you while I do this.
You can be damn sure I jerked off in the shower this morning to the image saved in my head.
What has me going to the text thread is not to look at her pictures but to reread the messages. Short little conversations, out-of-the-blue funny statements and memes. The last one came in as I was getting ready for the game tonight. It was short and sweet and dirty.
Good luck. Help my brother get a shutout and I’ll give you a blow job that will have your eyes crossing.
I grin as I reread that, especially since Drake got the shutout. Of course, the woman already has my eyes crossing every time she touches me, so it’s not like she’s promising something new. It’s more of a good reminder to both of us that while we’ve leaned into the friendship a bit, it’s still all about the benefits with us.
I didn’t respond to that message because I didn’t have time. We were getting ready to head onto the ice for warm-ups before the game and I’d only done a quick check of my phone.
Admittedly, I was checking to see if she’d texted, but I truly didn’t have time to respond.
I do so now, knowing she won’t see it until morning. She’s in deep slumber on the East Coast.As requested, I helped your brother get a shutout. Can’t wait to collect.
Grinning, I scroll backward through the string, unable to stop smiling at some of the silly conversations we’ve had.
Kiera:I was wondering, and since you’re a friend, I’m sure you can fill me in… what’s up with dudes and the chin lift when you see each other?
Me:Aah… the chin lift. That’s some deep stuff you’re asking about.
Kiera:I thought it was just a greeting.
Me:I’m not sure your female brain can comprehend the way our male brains work. We are all about simplifying things and we can carry on entire conversations between chin lifts and head nods.
Kiera:Wow… I never realized the male species was so brilliant.
Me:Honestly… we’re not. You know how you’ll be talking to us, then you ask a question, and we respond with “Huh?”
Kiera:Yeah. You weren’t really listening.
Me:Wrong. We heard you, we’re just buffering so that the answer we ultimately give is what you want to hear.
Kiera:I can’t with you.
She added a string of laughing emojis and I’d rather not dwell on how much it pleased me that I made her laugh, even if only digitally.
All of it… the conversations via text, the ones at her house the two nights I spent with her this weekend… all silly, light and without much depth.
In other words, it was safe.
And yet, I find myself missing her. Mostly, I’m missing the sex, which has easily become an addiction. Kiera is wild and uninhibited. There’s not a shy bone in her body and nothing she’s not willing to try. She’s every man’s fantasy.
But I also miss being with her because she’s comfortable to be around. No strong expectations, she’s funny as hell and I feel good in my soul when I’m near her. If I were so inclined to settle down, Kiera would be the type I’d consider. Maybe.
Christ, it’s going to be a long week. After we play the Blizzard, we’ll head to Edmonton and then Calgary. We don’t get back to Pittsburgh for another week, and I know the first thing I want to do is see Kiera.
We had not made plans so I shoot her another text.Got plans on the 19th?
I send it off and don’t offer any more. I hope she responds that she’s free—then I’ll make the move to ask her to do something, which will most likely be me asking if I can come over to her place to fuck her. Maybe dinner before if she wants.
