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"Welcome to the team, my man," Garrett says as they all shuffle down a seat to let me take the one on the end
"Thanks Good to be here," I tell him
"Are you all moved in?" Alex asks as he leans forward on the other side of Garrett to look at et done sometime next summer"
"Say the word, dude," Zack says from the other side of Alex "I bet Sutton, Olivia, Kate, and Gray could get you unpacked in about two hours flat You provide pizza and beer for us all, we’ll get it done"
"Yeah," I drawl out with a grin "Not about to have ood," Garrett says "Gray is just a normal chick when she steps out of the GM’s office"
And speak of the devil, Gray Brannon walks in alongside her father, the team’s CEO, Brian Brannon, followed by Coach Pretore and the rest of the coaching staff Ryker Evans brings up the rear, his eyes pinned to wife’s ass The voices in the roo their way, and then apparently planned withoutThe claps increase in staccato and volu out, and then a low chant, "Gray, Gray, Gray, Gray"
I stand up and do the saive kudos where they’re due Gray Brannon turned this tea opposition from players, coaches, executives, and fans across the country
Gray actually blushes, slides a grin to her dad, and then holds up her hands to quiet the tea back down, she says, "Okay, you big jerks, trying to ?"
Everyone chuckles, and then her eyes harden It’s tiain this year," she says with not a hint of egotism in her voice "Any questions?"
Dead silence until soht we are"
"Exactly," she says, leveling a beaeous chick No wonder Ryker fell for her "Now, that’s all I have I’ll turn it over to Coach Pretore"
Gray and Brian Brannon both step back and lean against the wall Coach Pretore steps up to the podiureat teaot a better team this year But we must be humble and realize that it still takes hard work, perseverance, and unification as a tea to work you harder than you’ve ever worked before, and you’re going to begto reach deep into your gut for every gaanization Areeet out on the ice Coach Pretore scans his ot some new members to the team Let’s take a moment so I can introduce them"