My breathing stops when I see Kylie standing there behind them. She leans into Lexi, who’s beside her, as she says something and laughs. Ariella is standing right next to my kids with Jagger in front of her. My kids bang on the glass as I skate to them and then Kylie’s eyes finally meet mine. My cock immediately starts to get hard, making my jock strap extremely uncomfortable. I quickly look away from her and knock on the glass with the tip of my stick at each kid. It’s been a month since I saw her, a month since I stormed out of her house. A month that I’ve done everything in my power to not think about her and it’s been working, until now.
She is, hands down, the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen. She is also, hands down, the best sex I ever had. And the biggest pain in my ass seeing as she’s the only one who can get me hot and bothered in one minute, then scathing mad in the next one.
“Daddy!” Nora shouts, jumping up and down, wearing a jersey with my number on it and the word Daddy across the back. The boys have aged out of that phase and now just wear a normal jersey with my name and my number. I smile at her, going over and grabbing a puck off the ice and tossing it up over the glass.
Shooting it a bit to the back, Kylie leans forward and catches it, right before it falls on the middle of Nora’s head. Nora looks up and laughs at Kylie as she smiles at her and hands her the puck. I take one more look at Kylie before I turn my head. She’s wearing acid-washed jeans with holes in the knees, a black tank top, and a short black leather jacket. Her hair is wavy and loose, and she has her purse across her chest. I skate away with Nora and her talking, and I get a tightness in my chest and then it’s replaced with anger.
I push it aside for the rest of warmups and we line up to take the ice before the game officially starts. Each of the numbers go up, with Jaxon being last, since he’s the captain. Kirby and I go before him since we are the assistant captains. I bounce on my skates, the adrenaline hitting me. “Let’s fucking go,” I say when they call my name, and I walk to the end of the carpet and then skate out. The spotlight follows me to the middle of the ice, where I hold up my hand and do a circle to the crowd before skating over to line up with the other guys. I look up at the family suite that I know my kids are in and try to find them, but there are so many people standing, I can’t see them.
Kirby skates on next and then does the same thing as me and then comes over to me, and I hold up my glove to give him a high-five. “Let’s do this, brother,” he says, and I just nod at him as Jaxon comes out and the crowd goes wild. “Such a show-off,” Kirby states, making me laugh. He skates to the middle, then to us, and then we finally get on with the game.
I line up in the middle, at center ice, with my stick in both of my hands, leaning forward with it on my knees as I skate in a circle like I always do before I take a face-off. “Okay, boys,” the referee says, “make it a clean game.” I listen to him and then the booming of the crowd is almost deafening as they wait for the puck to be dropped.
The announcer gets them even more pumped by saying, “Are you ready?”
My eyes go to the referee and then to his hand as he holds the black puck in it. My heart slams into my chest and I block out the noise, focusing on what I need to do. He drops the puck, and I win the face-off.
We fight hard and end up winning two to one. The end of the game has all of us skating to the middle of the ice and holding up our sticks. I look up and see Lexi holding Nora in her arms, bouncing her up and down as she points to me as Vincent is talking to Kylie about something, and I see him snort. I turn my head and skate off the ice, getting into the locker room.
“Good job, boys,” Jaxon encourages as the coach comes in and I slowly start to undress. My phone beeps with a message from Tessa, the babysitter.
Tessa:
Kids want to stay and wait for you.
Me:
Sounds good, I’ll be up as soon as I can.
Tessa:
Okay, Lexi said she can watch them if you want and I can take off.
Me:
Yeah, that sounds fine. Thanks for tonight.
I put my phone down and take a shower before getting dressed. I opt out of putting a tie on and, instead, just leave the top two buttons open. “I’m going to get my kids,” I tell Jaxon and Kirby, who just got out of the shower. “See you two later.”
I walk out and head to the elevator, stepping in and going up to the fourth floor where the suites are. I walk out and I give the security guards a chin up as I walk and open the door to the suite. Most of the wives are hanging around waiting for their husbands, and I see some of the kids sleeping on the couches. I spot Kylie sitting on the floor with her legs crossed, right next to Nora, the two of them coloring. “Hey,” I say, and Nora gets up and jumps on me.
“Daddy, you didn’t score,” she reminds me.
“I didn’t,” I try not to laugh, “but I tried.”
I kiss her head, and she squirms out of my arms. “I’m coloring with Kylie,” she tells me, and I raise my eyebrows at her as she goes to sit back down next to Kylie.
“I see that,” I reply and look over to see Vincent on his phone, sitting on one of the chairs, and Westley beside him on his iPad. Lexi is sitting with him as she watches what he’s doing on his iPad.
“She says I’m the best colorer she’s ever saw,” Nora announces and I just nod.
“Can I have a word?” I ask Kylie, who unfolds her legs and stands up. I see she’s wearing black-and-white checkered sneakers as I move over to the side, out of earshot of everyone.
“What are you doing?” I about hiss but keep my voice low so no one will hear us.
“What are you talking about?” She folds her arms over her chest and pushes her tits higher.
“I’m talking about you,” I point at her, “and my kids.”
