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The second reason I’m not in the spirit stands across the roo us Gray looks a in a cream-colored fuzzy sweater--not sure what it’s made of, but it looks so soft I want to bury my face in it

Preferably at chest level

She paired the sweater with a black skirt that cohts in a black and cranberry-colored plaid pattern With short ankle boots with a high heel she looks funky and elegant all at the same time

I want to eat her up but I can’t, because not one person in this rooether one , clandestine, and co, but we both know that we can’t do that again The risk is too great

Unfortunately, it becaly apparent after that rendezvous that our lives didn’t mesh well Not only did we have to keep our affair secret, but e did have time to meet, it was extremely limited due to my role as a father It’s not like I could invite Gray over to the house to irls, because I wasn’t even sure e had It wasn’t a fling, but it wasn’t a real relationship, and I’m not about to introduce someone to Ruby and Violet who really has no foothold insex at this point

And because I’o out and ht, but of course I couldn’t leave the girls And I couldn’t ask Kate and Zack to keep the for an entire night

It’s a coot to be with each other again was this past Monday e had an away gairls on a plane to Boston the day before and I was itching hard to get back inside of Gray Back inside her body, her brain, her heart--

No, wait Do I want in her heart?

I take a sip of aze around the huge room It’s packed with nearly two hundred people who represent the players, the ement, the executives, and even all of our subsidiary partners, along with their fahing… on probably a thousand dollars’ worth of catered hors d’oeuvre and drinking top-shelf liquor Because a hockey club is generally young, e of ten and they’re all playing with toys that Brian and Gray had bought and wrapped for them They were placed in a massive pile under a second Christmas tree that stood in the corner of the room near a monstrous hearth, and it et their gifts and have fun with the rest of the kids

Instead, I iave Hensley in the divorce settleine Sutter is there too on this Christmas Eve But I accept that Hensley has been in a relationship with him for almost a year now--albeit several months were behind ether for the long haul

I don’t see it, though Everyone thought Demi and Ashton would e difference is a lot, particularly when the man is just nineteen years old How in the fuck can he knohat he wants for the rest of his life at that age? While I don’t doubt he has strong feelings for Hensley, and hell, rowing the fuck up, and I’ap is just too big to overcome

I actually even feel a little sorry for her already, because she’ll be alone No husband, no boy toy, and no daughters except on planned visitation

My eyes sweep back over the crowd and I try a casual attempt to slide the atto take a chance that someone may see the passion between us

A passion that actually scares aet at each other I’d liken us to starved ani to fill eet satiated We fucked and fondled and talked for hours, and when she had to leave, I wasn’t ready for it to happen

I was bitter and pissed it had to happen

Gray was just sad and she apologized to s had to be

"Dude," I hear frorabs lance at hiulp of what I think is bourbon, sarilass on a nearby buffet table "I think I’m ready"

The mere fact that he just had to take a shot of liquor to steady his nerves indicates to me that he’s really not ready, but I’m not about to point that out to hied to Kate, I can see why he’s a little overwheloing to oofy and er," I say, and I watch as he walks over to the kids and takes Ben by the hand Ben, of course, knows about the proposal and I’ve been amazed the little man has kept this a secret from Kate He’s not known to hold secrets very well, and there is a long-standing pattern of hi his father about pranks that Kate tries to pull on him But so far, he’s kept his lips sealed