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A groan tightened the back of my throat. I yanked off my gloves and rubbed the back of my neck. “I can’t stop thinking about her.”
I waited for Zachary to tell me to get my head out of my ass. When he didn’t, I angled a look his way and caught him frowning while staring at Lucy. She turned just enough to catch his gaze and then jerked around, the pink in her cheeks darkening to a rosy hue. She rubbed her hands together and pushed them between her thighs as her throat worked on a hard swallow.
Zachary’s breathing changed, turning heavy enough that his entire body moved with each exhale.
“Fuck.” I punched him. Hard. “You like her too,” I hissed into his ear.
He snapped around and leaned away from me. “Keep your voice down.”
I punched him again, until Coach looked over and shook his head at us. The warning in his eyes was plain, and I held up my hands to show him I understood. As soon as he turned away, I punched Zachary in the leg. “You like her. What the hell, man?”
“It’s nothing.” Zachary rubbed his leg where I’d punched him and grimaced. “You wouldn’t understand.”
Oh, man. I was seriously going to beat him to a pulp for that one. “Don’t tell me what I do or don’t understand. I know I slept with her once, but I’m not done with Lucy. There’s a wholesomeness about her that I can’t get away from.”
Zachary’s jaw clenched and his knee bounced up and down. “I get it.” He tipped his chin toward me but kept his gaze on the ice. “She’s something else.”
“Did you two hook up?” I didn’t know where the question came from, but the way Zachary’s gaze shot straight to Lucy was a dead giveaway. “What the actual fuck? You slept with Lucy after giving me hell for it?”
His knee continued to bounce, the pace increasing. He rubbed his gloved hands over his head and caught his helmet when it fell off his knee. “It wasn’t like I meant for it to happen.” He scowled. “It was your fault, actually. If you hadn’t said all that shit about her liking all of us, I never would have made a move.”
“But you did. You made a move on her.” Damn. I wanted details, but then I’d have to tell him about my night with Lucy, and that wasnothappening. Few things were a secret between me, Lennox, and Zachary. This was one of them. “And you’re not done either, are you?”
His refusal to answer me was as much of an answer as if he’d punched me in the chest and tore out my insides. My heart gave a funny twist and I palmed it.
“What does this mean?” Zachary asked. He shot another look at Lucy, and then back at the ice. “This is crazy. We can’t. I mean, even one of us sleeping with her is bad enough. But this? I mean…” Frustrated, he trailed off and punched his fist into his thigh three times.
“Ohhh.” The wounded sound from the crowd drew our attention back to the ice.
The score was even. We’d missed the other team scoring twice against our stand-in goalie.
We were headed up shit creek without a paddle. We couldn’t lose our second game of the season. I mean, we could, but it would be horrible for the team’s morale. Several teammates on the bench shot dirty looks toward me and Zachary. Yep, we were in trouble with the team too. They knew something was wrong, and they blamed us for the sudden turn in the score. I didn’t blame them. I’d do the same thing in their situation. They’d seen me and Zachary almost start a fight with each other on the ice. That shit didn’t fly if we wanted our team to stay solid.
I knew what Zachary was thinking. It was all my fault because I couldn’t stop looking at Lucy. Well, now Zachary couldn’t stop looking at her either.
“What are we going to do?” I asked Zachary when the noise died down enough that we could talk without shouting.
He shrugged and knocked his helmet against his knee. The guy really could not sit still for five seconds, much less ten minutes. “What can we do? We both like her. She likes both of us.”
I had one idea. It was crazy, but it might work. Did I dare say it out loud? Zachary might laugh me right out of the box. Then again, what’s the worst he could do? He could tell me I was crazy. That people didn’t do that in real life. I leaned in close. “We could share her.”
My teammate twitched so hard that his elbow caught me square in the gut. I’d think it was on purpose if not for the way he spun around to face me with his eyes wide and alarmed. “What the fuck did you just say?”
I shushed him with raised eyebrows and a shake of my head. “You heard me.”
“That’s not…” He blinked. Glanced at Lucy. When he looked at me again, a hard glint burned in his eyes. “Explain.”
Well. Shit. “It’s not like I have it all worked out in my head or anything. We could.” I stopped and licked my lips. “I could take her out some nights and you could take her out other nights.”
Zachary took his time thinking about what I’d said.
I leaned past Zachary and caught Lucy watching us. Her concerned expression warmed my heart. I lifted my eyebrows at her and almost winked. But then her dad looked our way and I tried to appear nonchalant as I straightened out my legs and checked my skates. The timer ticked down. We’d be back on the ice in five minutes, if Coach allowed us to go back out. From the daggers he continued to shoot our way, that was uncertain.
“There for a second, I thought you meant we’d sleep with her at the same time,” Zachary said it with a scoff, like the idea was ridiculous.
The image of the two of us buried balls deep in Lucy at the same time gave me an instant semi.
I almost believed Zachary didn’t feel the same way until he suddenly shifted in his seat like his pants were too tight. I knew mine were. “I wouldn’t be opposed to that.”
