“Most of the time you’re cock blocking any woman who gets near me, but suddenly you’ve never advocated so hard for me to fuck someone like you are her.”
“Is that what you think I’m doing?”
“It’s what I know you’re doing and maybe you need to ask yourself why.”
I barely stutter a response. Rush has never spoken to me this way before, and I’m not sure where it’s coming from but that doesn’t matter much right now, because Miranda is standing in the hallway close enough to hear us and the look on her face is haunting.
Imagine a puppy getting kicked in the face by a human it trusted and a human it loves.
I just wish the hallway would swallow me up whole.
What a shit first day.
Sixteen
RUSH
I train aggressivelyfor the rest of the day in an effort to punish myself for my behavior. It’s a bad habit I picked up from back in my high school days. I’m pissed mostly at myself because I reacted poorly today and hurt two women who didn’t deserve it.
Miranda was completely embarrassed by my comments that she overhead and retreated back to her office as quickly as she appeared. I don’t foresee us ever speaking again, and once Mia finishes her paperwork, I doubt she’ll speak to her either.
I’ve been nervous from the start for Mia to take this job. She’s the only woman in the PT department of an NFL team. She’s single, statuesque, fit, and a gorgeous woman who men are undoubtedly going to hit on. What I didn’t count on were my evolving feelings for her getting the way too.
Something is changing and I feel like captain obvious just gave me a hard elbow in the chest when I saw her chatting it up with Samuels. He’s the last person on earth I need sniffing up under her ass. Just a second ago, he was fucking Proctor’s mother. He’s a self-indulgent, woman-obsessed asshole with no boundaries.
I don’t want to shit talk one of my teammates to Mia, especially because she has to work with him, but I need to find a way to calmly squash this thing before it gets out of hand and I hurt someone. I think I just need a night to sleep on it and calm down.
I’m not the most strategic thinker when I’m angry, but perhaps fate has other plans for me today, because Samuels is headed directly my way and there can only be one thing he wants to talk to me about.
“You were fast as hell out there today,” he says, blowing smoke completely up my ass.
“Yeah.”
“So I just wanted to clear the air about Mia.”
“What about her?”
My hackles rise.
“I realize she’s your homegirl from college so I want to be respectful.”
Fuck me.
“She’s real hot and seems like a nice girl. I want to ask her out for a date.”
“She’s been working here for five hours and you want to ask her out already? That’s working fast, even for you.”
“Early bird gets the worm, man. If I don’t ask her soon, somebody else is going to.”
I hear ringing in my ears. There’s a competition to get at Bird first? If this is what I have to look forward to for the rest of the season, I’m going to kill somebody and the most likely candidate today is Samuels.
“I rather you didn’t,” I tell him.
“Did you hit that in school or something?”
My blood is boiling.
“You’re asking if I slept with her?”Fuckhead.“No, Samuels. She’s… she’s just a friend from school.”
