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"Don’t I always? See you, Stella"

She hung up and slid her phone onto the side of the tub, thinking about seeing Trick to her hands all over that ht she’d have lost interest In the past years, she’d tired of ain the other night sparked her up all over again

That shouldn’t surprise her He was inventive, sexy, had a body that just didn’t quit, and he’d learned her body fast Every tierly anticipated seeing hi about hi, but at the saave her a sense of calm in her whacked-out world It was crazy She was crazy for starting up this relationship--

Correction She was not having a relationship with Trick She did not have relationships Not anymore Not since that epic ive a man that much control over her heart, her soul, and her life No one was going to hurt her so deeply again

So far, it had worked She washer own destiny She’d worked her way up the dancing echelon in New York City, and now she was one of the lead dancers in a show that was going to preet here, and it was because she’d let nothing and no one distract her

Not even the incredibly hotto see tomorrow

Chapter Four

"Pull your head out of your ass and focus on the puck, Niean" Trick skated past his friend and teaan, and shot the puck toward the net, where the Travelers goalie, Avery Mangino, waited and easily used his stick to shove it out of the way

"Shit," Trick muttered

"Come on, Trick Youto honeto ith?"

It had been a long practice this aoal while Ray Sayers, the other Travelers forward, had distracted Mangino

"I hope you don’t play like that tonight, Trick," Drew told him "Or we’re screwed"

Leave it up to his teammates to call hi out all the kinks during practice"

It was a hoht, and he played best on hoaa in the sauna for an hour to relax his tense muscles, he went home for a couple of hours, put his earbuds in, and listened to so to stay purabbed a set ready