“And I responded.”
“Have you been spending all this time with Chloe?” Marcus gives me a cautious eye.
“Not all of it.”
They don’t need to know that it’s an outright lie. But they know my feelings, so I know one of them will call my bluff.
“Is she doing better after everything went down?” Bode asks instead.
Huh. They never drop anything, so it surprises me Bode sidestepped my answer.
“Yeah. She got her own place and is working on starting her own jewelry business,” I say.
“Wow. Good for her,” Noah says. “Good thing to distract yourself with after being dumped.”
I point a finger at him as I move to another weight machine to start leg exercises. “Technically, she dumped him.”
“Because he was cheating.” Noah rolls his eyes at me. “The same old Duncan. Only caring about himself and getting his dick wet.”
“Are we allowed to say that around Dax?” Graham whispers to Noah.
Noah pats him on the cheek. “You don’t know how to whisper. And Dax knows it.”
“Do I ever.”
On the one hand, if it hadn’t happened, Duncan and Chloe would be married right now. On the other, at least Chloe is single. Not that she ever wants to date a playeragain, but there might be a one percent chance in the next five-to-ten years she changes her mind.
Slim, but there’s a chance.
Again, another reason I need to move on.
“What are you going to do about it?” Jasper asks.
“What do you mean?” My brows furrow as I look at him, pushing the plate on the leg bar to work my hammies.
“You have feelings for her, right?” Jasper looks at me like I’m the idiot for not knowing this. “Are you just going to let her get away?”
“Right now? Yes.”
I start counting my reps to myself to not have to look at any of the guys. This is so not the conversation I thought we’d be having right now.
“Really? I would’ve thought you would have made a move on her by now,” Bode says.
“She just got out of a relationship. Give her some time,” Marcus says. “I have a feeling she’ll come around.”
“Really?” That has me stopping and sitting up. “Why would she want to date her ex-fiancé’s brother? She’s sworn off all men and hockey players.”
“Ouch.” They all answer at the same time.
“You have an uphill road ahead of you,” Jasper says, “but love is worth it.”
“Okay, did I miss something?” Bode sets his weights on the floor and rests his hands on his hips. “Why is Jasper all loved up?”
“The list of whose ass I need to kick keeps growing,” Jasper fires back. “I can want my teammate to be happy.”
“No, I want to know more about this too,” I agree. Anything to get the heat off of me and myvery slim chancewith Chloe.
“There’s nothing to tell.” Jasper finds one of the treadmills, jacking up the speed to ignore all of us.
