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Driving bass vibrated the bed even this deep into the house Every so often a peal of laughter would shoot straight through the place This was supposed to be our final blowout

In only a feeeks I’d be up against guys who hadn’t made it onto the developoing to come out anywhere near the bottom of the pack this ti

Drive Intensity Nonstop balls-to-the-wall ferocity hat I needed to have on the ice I wasn’t losing my spot I’d show him that we didn’t need him and I’d made it on my own

“If I’d had another week, I know things would have gone down differently,” Heath said, cli his perch on the roof outside Emmett’s bedroom

“How long have you been out there?”

“An hour or so I had to make a call”

“You’re going to get her fired”

Heath held up his hands in mock surrender “I can’t help it that I’m attracted to a hot woe in the corner of Emmett’s room

The door flew open, and Cole of ether as Heath grabbed a beer from the six-pack he’d stashed

He’d driven up to Maine to a specialty et them Only one six-pack per custoe, that was the thing that et his fake ID All to drive ten hours for a six-pack Soot to him off the ice, he walked away and just drove

“Letand closing it like a little kid anted a toy

“Dude” Heath glanced down at his precious beers and held out the six-pack to Coled one out of the cardboard carton Emmett tapped Heath on the shoulder, and he handed over another one

Eirl stumbled past the open bedroom door on the phone “I can barely talk, let alone walk Holy fuck, that was a her phone, and we all shot up Before we got to her, Ford wrapped his ar from the same direction she had

He held on to her and crouched down so he was looking into her eyes, and talked to her so loe couldn’t hear He held on to her hands, and she so, he watched her as she stood and kissed his, she turned and headed toward the steps

“What the hell was that? Was she that drunk?” Emmett stared out the open doorway