Cheap Shot by Kat Mizera

Author:Kat Mizera [Mizera, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kat Mizera

18

Sloane

I dressed for dinner in my own room since that was where most of my stuff was. The truth was I needed a little time alone to think. I was beyond annoyed at my brother since Johan had told me about their exchange on the beach, but unsure how to approach the subject of Johan and I…dating? We’d had a breakthrough last night, something I wanted to build on, but things like that took time. And time wasn’t something I had an abundance of. With my brother involving himself, it seemed like I was being forced to make a decision I wasn’t sure I was ready for.

Was I comfortable with going public so soon? Letting our inner circle know we were dating? That was hard to answer because I was leaving. The only question was when.

Impulsively, I called Harper.

“Hey!” She answered on the first ring.

“Hey.”

“I saw on Instagram that you’re in Cancun.”

“Yes. Decker and Eden invited me to come along. Half the team is here, so it’s been fun so far.”

“You’re actually allowing yourself to have fun?” she breathed, a touch of sarcasm in her voice. “Be still my heart.” She knew better than almost anyone how hard I was on myself, though she didn’t know the details of what I’d gone through.

I laughed. “Stop it. I have fun.”

“Right.”

“That’s why I called,” I said after a moment, sliding the post of a diamond hoop earring into my lobe. “Do we have a timetable yet?”

“We don’t. I’m sorry. Until the next hearing, I don’t know when I can officially take over the team. I’ve made some moves behind the scenes, though.”

“I need to ask you a hypothetical question.”

“Oh boy.”

“If I was involved with someone on the team and wanted him to be traded to the Phantoms, could you make it happen?”

“If things go our way in court, sure. But we’re a long way from that, and it depends on who the guy is, his current contract, the salary he’d want… there are a lot of variables.” She paused. “Are you dating someone on the team? Johan?”

I bit my lip as I put the second earring in.

“Yes, but no one knows. And my brother is being a fucking Neanderthal. He told everyone I was off-limits when I got here. And I guess he’s seen that Johan and I are friends, so—”

“I have to look him up again because I can’t picture his face.”

“That’s because the only face you ever see is Gabe’s.” Gabriel DeLugo was the back-up goalie for the Knights and Harper’s ex-husband. She didn’t talk about him much, but on the rare occasion his name came up there was always something in her voice that gave me pause.

“Gabe knows I plan to trade for him the minute I’m able. And he’s not happy about it.”

“Really?”

“Yup. And that stays between us. You can’t tell anyone. Not your brother, not Johan. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes, and I have to be able to trust you with this stuff.”

“Of course. I won’t say anything.

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