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“I’ll be there Did you finish reading the binder?”

“Most of it I’ve jotted down some ideas we can talk about e meet ”

“Aweso that, Alex ”

“No proble iven you a few reasons to do that ”

She giggles into the phone and fk, if that isn’t like the best sound ever “Okay, go get so over me like soft cotton “I’ll see you Sunday ”

“Good night,” I tell her

“Good night, Alex ”

When I disconnect, I quickly set the alaret up at 5 A M and then flip off the la the room into darkness

It’s funny how ht had started so shitty, yet ended on such a positive note How can a thirty- s

Hockey! That sport I fking detest

But for some reason, whenever I talk to her about it, it’s fun It actually o so far as to say that the conversation brought ht

Fucking joy I can’t believe I’d use that and hockey in the same sentiment

I’ to understand that perhaps I need to peel my blinders back a little bit My dad molded me out of muscle, bone and raw talent but as he pushed me forward, he never let me look around at the world He never let me form my own opinions He never let ood at the age of sixteen to join the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, reatly My hatred for the sport had already been cemented, and I didn’t know any way to find happiness in hockey

That is, until tonight, when I spent half an hour teaching Sutton about the ga to watch azillion questions afterward, and it will be my pleasure to show her all about my sport

I don’t knohat it is about Sutton that sets her apart Maybe it’s the way she refused to judge me when I first met her in her office Or maybe it’s the way she lives her life with such zest It could possibly even be the fact that the girl is smokin’ hot and I’m seriously attracted to her

Whatever the reasons, I like Sutton Price I like her a lot and for probably a million other reasons I probably like hers

I close ers on my face, and drift off to sleep

Chapter 10

Sutton