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With the party easing towards its conclusion, I wound up standing with the dates There was Aoalie Orsen’s date, whose naht

"Who are you here with?" Orsen’s new little friend asked otten that question I opened my mouth to explain that I wasn’t with anyone, but catty Amy beat me to the punch "She’s here with everyone," she snickered

Lovely Airlfriends who’d never liked nify A irritated

"Oh," the newco"

"I hear that it is," Amy practically hissed

I tried not to roll irlfriends didn’t knohat to do with me They didn’t like how often I saw their boyfriends naked They didn’t like wondering if I’d ever been naked with their boyfriends The price of being me was that my reputation often preceded me As a matter of fact I had hooked up with Trevi once, before he’d o I didn’t even remember the details

The Aht I kept reat job The bench is the best seat in the house for the gairlfriends, it was es Because hockey eso out

A few feet away, Trevi and Orsen were deep into an argument about the Bruins’ prospects this year "You can’t say that there’s a hole in their lineup," Orsen argued

"You’re right" Trevi chuckled "It’svoid is here" I held up et ’em," Orsen said "Coach’ll probably kick us out soon, anyway It’s almost ten" He strode off toward the beer table

"What’s shakin’ Bella?" Trevi asked, draining his beer in preparation for the next round

"The usual Trying to get the fresh to pick a topic for my senior thesis How about you? Is it true that the Blackhawks are taking a look at you?"

Trevi grinned "They’re lookin’ Doesn’t ood feeling about it," I told him with a friendly squeeze of his ar bitter But I was excited about his prospects whether she liked it or not There were several scouts circling the tea the season in the nu to be snapping up some of them

See? Everyone had a plan but uys!"

I turnedinto Coach’s yard Michael Grahauy I had ever really fallen for And -- because I had a perfect record for romantic disaster -- the second one to break my heart

"Wealoud what I had been thinking "Don’t knohy you had to take up sports writing when I could use you on the blue line"

My favorite ex-defense what?" I stood on tiptoe to give him a kiss on the cheek, careful not to lean in too far I didn’t want to get trapped in aI’d struggled to overco "I spent four hours on the river with the crew teaht I was just there to watch, but one of the heavyweights had a knee that was bothering hiet in here We’ll show you what crew is all about’" Chuckling, Graha is hard My abs will never be the sao I would have offered to kiss it and make it better Unfortunately, somebody else had that honor these days I plastered a save a little swerve, because the guy just looked so freaking happy

Gone was the broody Grahahthearted creature as alnizable to me but for the familiar bulky muscles and his icy blue eyes The Graha that moved He was dark and a little jaded, like