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I turn to see a woman wearing a white buttondown dress shirt and black pants her hand covers her mouth.
“You’re really enjoying those mini cheesecakes,” she cackles removing her hand. She’s beautiful with long brown hair and warm chocolate brown eyes. Her smile is sincere, and her red lips are sexy as hell.
“I’ve never tasted anything so good in my life. That base is to die for. What is it? Some sort of graham cookie crumble?”
“Are you a baker?” she asks.
I laugh. “No, I just know a good dessert when I taste one.”
“My boss owns the catering company who catered this event. She is quite the baker. Those are her mini mango cheesecakes. Have you tried the dulce de leche ones? They’re my favorite.”
“There’s dulce de leche?” I ask unable to contain my excitement. I’m like a kid who has their hand in the candy jar with no repercussions.
The woman points to another table. “Right here.”
My eyes widen and my mouth waters. I pop the bite size morsel in my mouth and the flavor bursts on my tongue. “Oh, that is good,” I groan. These cheesecakes are freaking orgasmic.
“You really like your desserts,” the woman laughs.
“I’m a professional athlete. I eat clean most of the season. We’re in the finals now and my good buddy just got married. This is me celebrating,” I explain. I better slow down on these mini cakes. As good as they are they are also sweet, and I am starting to feel nauseous.
“What sport do you play?” the woman asks.
“Hockey,” I say dryly as if it’s no big deal. .”
“Are you guys famous or something? I’ve never seen so many guys above six feet with your build in the same room at the same time before,” she says.
“I mean I don’t know if we’re famous,” I scratch my jaw. I’ve never liked the attention of being a professional athlete so it’s nice she doesn’t know anything about hockey.
Brett walks over. He’s my best friend on the team even though he’s five years older than me. We grew up next to each other. I was friends with his younger brother and our moms were good friends. When I drafted to the Rangers it was him who showed me around. I even lived with him for the first year until I figured everything out with living on my own since I drafted right out of high school.
“Hey bro,” Brett says interrupting.
I nod at my friend who can also be a pain in the ass.
“What’s your name?” he asks the woman I’m talking to. I didn’t even get her name yet and he just swoops in and bam.
“Taylor,” she replies with a warm smile.
“Nice to meet you, Taylor. I’m Brett. I see you’ve already met Kaleb,” Brett says being a pushy jerk.
“We were talking but I didn’t get his name. Nice to meet you Kaleb,” she says bating her lashes. She’s pretty and sweet.
“Nice to meet you too, Taylor. Ignore my pushy friend,” I laugh.
Taylor laughs too.
“I’m not pushy,” Brett argues.
“Yes, you are,” I argue back which is the wrong thing to do with Brett.
“Are you guys going to dance?” Brett asks looking between us. I want to kill him. Ever since I told him I was a virgin he’s being an annoying aggressive idiot.
“Actually, I’m on the job,” Taylor explains.
“That’s okay,” I smile. I eye Brett willing him to walk away because him supervising how I am picking up a girl isn’t helping. In fact he is ruining any game I have.
“Brett, I think Matt is calling you,” I lie, and I physically turn him around and push him in the other direction.
