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My dad texts back, You betcha Lunch is on me

Deal, I text back

Sadie walks up to our table and asks, “You boys need anything?”

“Yeah,” Dax says with a laugh “Send Blue over here before Erik perishes fro able to see her”

The guys all start laughing but I don’t even bother looking up from my phone

“Bite uys and then shoot another text off tosoe yawn as the teaht crew has the option to ride the same buses that the team takes from hotels to arenas as a perk of our job if ant or we can take an Uber If we go with the teaaht we hopped the ride since the arena in Houston sits ae retail and restaurant co a few hoursshopping before the game

For both trips, there and back, I sat with Sadie, even though Erik had beckoned to ht shake ofto be so obvious about our relationship on ga so Sadie and I took a pair of seats near the front of the bus

The gaainst the Ja The Vengeance pulled it out, though, and I’ve never seen a ritty and inexhaustible when it co down to the wire for a win As always, Erik was a pleasure to watch on the ice and I have to ad hi that ere actually a couple put a new spin on things I had evento watch because a ould be more personal to me since it was personal to Erik

I follow Sadie off the bus, hopping off the last step “I’ to wait for Erik,” I tell her

She throws a hand over her shoulder in acknowledgment “See you up in the room”

I’ for Erik because he had texted me on the ride from the arena to the hotel and asked me to do so He sat near the back of the bus so it will take a few ood night kiss before we head to our respective roo to say no to that

Several players diseend and Dax who both wink at ets off next Notoriously quiet and withdrawn, he gives ht, Blue,” as he walks passed me