“I’m not the one who brought up her name.” Tanner waggles his eyebrows.
Nolan sighs. “Do you want him to beat the shit out of you?”
Tanner smirks. “He can’t. Coach forbade him from hitting me.”
Brock grins. “Only on the field.”
He steps toward Tanner, who scurries away. “You can’t catch me!”
I return my attention to my box. “What the hell am I supposed to do with a thousand pairs of socks?”
“Wear them.”
I glare at Corbin. “There are enough socks in here for my entire lifetime. Probably several lifetimes.”
He shrugs.
“Figure something out. I’m hungry,” Brock grumbles before traipsing back to the locker room. Corbin and Nolan follow him.
“Aren’t you going to help? You’re the assholes who ordered these.”
Nolan winks. “But you’re the one who signed for delivery.”
Notice he didn’t deny ordering them.
Where the hell am I going to get rid of this many socks? I grin when an idea hits me. I bet Otis could use some socks. And maybe his teammates as well.
If I hurry, I can catch Addy at home. I can get a fix of my songbird before she goes to work.
I’m quickly becoming obsessed with her. And I don’t care. Addy is the woman for me. I’m falling for her. I don’t care how fast it happened. She’s the woman I want to spend my life with.
I need to figure out what to do after training camp is over. And I will. Because I’m not letting her go.
I rush toward the locker room, but before I can enter, Coach Knox steps out of his office and into my way.
“We need to talk.”
A shiver travels down my spine. He’s not happy.
“I know I screwed up in practice today, but I—”
He holds up a hand to stop me. “It’s not only today. You’ve been distracted a lot lately. And you missed a practice.”
My stomach drops. I don’t want to let the team down. This team is my family. Football is my life.
“I explained why I missed practice.”
“You need to handle whatever’s distracting you.”
“Handle?”
Addy isn’t a problem to handle. She’s a person. The woman I’m falling for. The one I want in my life. Permanently.
“I’m serious, Gage. Get your head in the game. Lose the distraction. Or you’ll lose your position on this team. Not to mention sponsors.”
He walks off before I have a chance to respond.
Fuck. Is he right? Is Addy affecting my game? Should I let her go before I lose everything?
