“I’ve never been to a hockey game before,” she replied.
I tried to give her my best puppy-dog eyes. “Then you have to come. It’s the best sport ever. I’ve been playing it since I was four years old. You’ll love it, I promise.”
“I don’t have a ticket,” she worried.
“Don’t worry about it. I’ll make sure there’s one waiting for you at the door when you get there.”
“Okay, deal,” she agreed.
“Besides, as my girlfriend, isn’t it your duty to come cheer me on at games now?” I asked.
“Don’t push it, Luka. Or you might lose those bonus points,” she said as she punched me lightly in the shoulder while laughing.
“Eh, I’m sure I can score enough today to keep me afloat,” I replied. “Maybe I’ll even let you pick out a movie to watch this afternoon.”
“You better or you’ll end up with negative points instead because I’m always stuck watching action flicks,” she warned.
“Why is that?”
“Because Lexi has the same taste in movies as all my brothers, so I’m usually out-voted whenever we go see one,” she complained.
“Well, since you’ve promised to be my girlfriend, spend the day with me and come to my game tonight. Then I guess the least I can do is let you have your pick,” I offered.
Aubrey rubbed her hands together with excitement. “Even if it’s a chick flick?”
“Even then,” I sighed. “My little sister makes me watch girlie movies sometimes too, so I’ve learned how to suffer through.”
“Well, then I guess we have a plan for our day,” she said.
Chapter 7
Aubrey
Luka had to go to the rink early because it was a game day, so I decided to stop by Lexi’s apartment before heading back to the dorm to get ready. I sent her a quick text before I walked next door.
“Geesh! Don’t get your panties in a twist,” Lexi huffed at me as she opened the door after I’d banged on it.
“You’re so slow,” I complained.
“Give a girl more than a minute’s heads-up before you come knocking and maybe then I’ll answer faster,” she quipped back at me.
“Yeah well, I’d have to be wearing panties in order to get them in a twist,” I said with a smirk on my face.
Lexi yanked my arm and pulled me into the apartment. “What the hell happened last night? Last I knew, you were on your way over here to talk to me about Luka and then I get a mysterious text saying you weren’t going to make it over. And now you show up without any panties on?”
“About that,” I started. “I did make it to the building at least. In fact, I made it all the way up to your floor. Only then I got a surprise.”
“A surprise that left you going commando the next day?” Lexi asked, apparently impatient for me to get on to the good parts of the story.
“Yup,” I said. “When I got off the elevator, he was in the hallway.”
“That sounds like a really good surprise to me,” she said.
“For both of us,” I agreed. “Luka thought I’d relented and was here to see him, and before I knew it, he’d dragged me into his bedroom.”
Lexi’s jaw dropped open. “Damn, that’s hot.”
“Hot enough that it wasn’t easy to say no again last night,” I admitted. “And even hotter this morning when I walked in on him in the shower. Ohmigod, melt-my-panties-off-my-body hot.”
“So why keep saying no?”
This was the question that had been rolling around my head this morning.
“It’s hard to explain. At first, part of it was that I wanted to make sure Luka didn’t think I was a slut. Since he’d heard that I dated around a lot, I felt like it was important that I not just fall into bed with him right away,” I told her. “Especially because I didn’t do that with most of the guys I dated before either. Regardless of what the word on campus might be.”
Lexi rolled her eyes at that. “You know guys like to exaggerate.”
“And it never really mattered to me before. But with Luka”—I paused to gather my thoughts—“everything is different. Somehow, it’s all just more. Does that make any sense?”
Lexi had a dreamy look on her face when she answered. “Oh yes. I definitely get the idea of knowing that a guy means more even before you’ve slept with him.”
“I was also a little worried because it’s been a while since I’ve slept with anyone, and part of the reason I’ve kept my bed empty is because of how things turned out last time. I never wanted to feel the way I did seeing a guy I’d slept with, who I might be stuck with forever as my baby daddy, out with another girl while I was thinking about taking a pregnancy test,” I confessed.
“And you wouldn’t have to worry about that with Luka because you’ve made a commitment to him,” she reminded me.
“And that’s part of why I think I’m ready,” I admitted, both to her and myself. “We’ve been dating for a little while now. The chemistry between us is undeniable. I know I’m not just a rebound for him after the mess with his ex. We had the talk about being exclusive this morning, and the sound of him calling me his girlfriend sent chills down my spine in a good way. And I really, really want to sleep with him.”
“Sounds to me like you’ve made up your mind,” Lexi said.
“Yeah, did I mention how much I want him?” I asked. “God, I could just lick him like my own personal lollipop all night long.”
Lexi had just taken a sip of pop, which she spewed out of her mouth at my oversharing. “Jesus, Aubrey. Give a girl a warning before you shock the hell out of her.”
“Sorry,” I offered.
“So not sorry,” she mumbled under her breath as she cleaned up the mess.
“How is it that, when you decided to sleep with Drake the first time, I offered you brilliant advice, but when I decide to sleep with Luka, you give me a hard time?”
“Has hell finally frozen over?” she wondered aloud. “Is Aubrey Silver coming to little old me for advice about her sex life?”
“Oh, shut it,” I grumbled. “It’s not that crazy when you think about the fact that you’ve been getting it regularly from Drake for the last year while I’ve been on an extended dry spell.”
“Hell yes, she’s been getting it regular from me,” Drake muttered as he strolled into the kitchen.
“Well shit, this wasn’t a conversation I planned to have with you around,” I grumbled.
“That’s okay,” Drake said as he pulled Lexi close and nuzzled her neck. “Just pretend like I’m not here.”
“You aren’t exactly easy to ignore,” Lexi sighed.
“Well, then skip the conversation, let Aubrey go do whatever she needs to get done today, and come back to bed so I can make sure you get it from me again,” Drake said slyly and bit down on her neck with a growl.
Lexi stepped away from him and swatted at his shoulder. “Down, boy.”
“And this is why I didn’t move in with you guys,” I said, laughing at their antics.
“Ah, but just think—you probably would have gotten to know Luka much better before now if you had and your dry spell would already be over,” Drake pointed out.
“Shut up, Drake,” Lexi growled at him as I blushed. “You’re totally embarrassing Aubrey.”
“What?” he asked. “Was I supposed to pretend like I didn’t hear your whole conversation?”
I looked down at the floor, torn between the desire to die from either laughter or embarrassment. “That works me for me.”
“Go,” Lexi ordered as she pointed at the door. “You’re stuck on honey-do duties after that.” She handed him the shopping list from the fridge and shoved him towards the door.
He went along with it but stopped before leaving. “I get why you don’t want me to be part of this conversation, Aubrey, because it’s kind of awkward for me too. But for what it’s worth, I don’t think you need to worry about anything with Luka. Just give him the green flag and go along for the ride
. Guys aren’t super complicated. He just wants you to say yes.”
“Drake—” Lexi spit out as she pointed at the door again.
“No,” I interrupted her. “Thanks, Drake. It is super awkward, but I appreciate your sharing a guy’s point of view with me.”
“Well, then I’ll leave you with one more word of wisdom. Lingerie,” he said as he walked out the door, shutting it quickly so Lexi didn’t slam it in his face.
“So, that was awkward,” Lexi sighed. “Sorry. I should have warned you that he was still here and has really good hearing.”
“Well, at least we know my advice to you last year when you went to his parents’ for Thanksgiving was good and he appreciated what I told you to pack,” I said in a feeble attempt to stop myself from thinking about what just happened.
“Oh, I had no doubts about that,” Lexi said dreamily.
“So what type of lingerie does one wear to a hockey game?” I asked.
“I’m not sure, but my guess is the sexy kind,” Lexi offered.
I could practically feel the wicked gleam that was shining from my eyes as I thought about what I would wear tonight. “Then I guess it’s a good thing that that’s the only kind I own.”
“Tonight’s the night for sure?” Lexi asked.
“Oh yes,” I agreed. “Tonight is definitely the night.”
By the time I made it to the hockey rink, I was incredibly turned on. I’d spent the last two hours thinking about the upcoming night and getting ready to blow Luka’s mind. I took extra time in the shower making sure I shaved all the important parts and then some. I massaged in my favorite Victoria’s Secret body lotion so my skin was super soft and smelled sexy. I repainted my toes with another coat of the bright-red polish I’d used last and decided to do my fingernails in the same color. I’d caught Luka staring at my toes this morning, so I thought he liked it. And that he’d like it even more when my nails ran across his skin and my hand wrapped around his cock. Guys were visual creatures, and I wanted to send him into sensory overload tonight. I was dying to make him lose control.
Plus, the color went very well with the bra and panties I’d selected. They were cream silk with red lace trim. They were incredibly sexy but not very practical, which was perfect for what I had in mind for tonight. The panties had cream ribbons that tied on each of my hips, and the clasp on the front of my bra had a small matching bow. It made me feel like a present Luka could unwrap later.
Each selection I’d made while getting ready tonight had turned me on even more because I knew I’d been making them with Luka in mind. Any lingering uncertainties had already been wiped away as I pulled on the tight-fitting Blythe College hockey shirt I’d bought at the bookstore on my way to the dorm from Lexi’s. The combination of my bra and the V-neck of my shirt did excellent things to my tits. I’d have to be careful bending over at the rink or I might accidentally flash someone with more boob than I’d intended.
I paired the shirt with my favorite jeans and knee-high boots. I’d seen Luka staring at my boots before, and based on the fact that Jackson had insisted on calling them my ‘stripper boots,’ I could guess what had been running through his head when he’d been doing it. By the time, I’d been ready to go, I’d felt ready for anything tonight threw at me.
I’d decided to walk to the rink since I planned to ride back to Luka’s apartment with him after the game. It was a beautiful night out, and I had hoped the walk would allow me to cool down from being so hot and bothered. My ticket was waiting for me at will call just like Luka had promised, and he’d managed to get me a seat right behind the bench on the glass.
“Hi,” a pretty redheaded girl who was already seated greeted me. “Are you Aubrey by any chance?”
“Hello,” I said, returning her greeting with a smile. “Yes, I am.”
“It’s so nice to meet you,” she replied. “I’m Lucy. My boyfriend is the goalie who’s playing in net tonight.”
“Nice to meet you,” I said as I offered her my hand to shake.
“I usually drag one of my friends out to the games, but I was so excited when Alex asked me if Luka could have one of my tickets tonight,” she said.
“I appreciate you letting me steal your friend’s seat.”
She waved away my thanks. “Oh, trust me. It’s nothing. You’re probably doing me a favor because most of my friends prefer to come to games when Alex is riding the bench because I’m always a nervous wreck when he’s in the net. Now I don’t have to worry about pissing one of them off. Or try to pretend like I’m not freaking out all night so they don’t get mad at me and end up biting all my nails off or something.”
“Feel free to be as worried as you’d like with me here,” I reassured her. “I don’t mind. I’ve never been to a game before, so I won’t even know when to be concerned for Luka.”
“A hockey virgin?” Lucy squealed and then looked at me apologetically. “Sorry. I tend to be inappropriate from time to time. Feel free to ignore me as much as you’d like or let me know if my big mouth starts to get to you.”
“Now why would I do that to the girl who’s going to help me pop my hockey cherry?” I teased.
“Oh thank fuck you aren’t prissy. A lot of the other girlfriends are, so I never hang out with them. It just sucks that it took Luka until his senior year to find you or I could have had someone fun to hang out with all this time,” she lamented. “But at least we met so early in the season.”
“Is Alex a senior too?” I asked.
“No, we’re both juniors,” she replied. “We’ve been together since freshmen year, so I’m not one of those hockey bunnies who moves from player to player.”
“Hockey bunnies?” I quizzed, surprised by the reference.
“Yup,” she quipped. “And boy oh boy, am I excited to see the looks on their slutty faces when they realize that Luka is off the market again. Not that he’s given them the time of day before, but with him finally being single this year, I know some of them were hoping to get their nails into him.”
I lifted my hands in the air in and made a cat-claw gesture with my pretty, red nails. “Too late. I’ve got mine in him already and he likes it that way.”
“I’m sure he does,” she replied as the team got ready to get onto the rink.
I didn’t have to wait long to find Luka amongst his teammates. He had a big “A” stitched onto the front of his jersey, and when he turned to say something to one of the guys, I saw that his number was five. It made me chuckle because it turned out to be a very lucky number for me since he was my fifth tutor. He flashed me a grin when he looked towards where I was sitting in the stands and I felt my panties melt just a little bit more.
“Oh yeah. He definitely likes you right where you’re at,” Lucy said, drawing my attention away from the ice. She turned her head to look farther up to a group of girls who were glaring daggers down at us. “And the bunnies already seem to know who you are. You definitely disappointed lots of girls tonight who had their sights set on catching Luka now that he was single.”
“Too bad for them that I’ve snapped him up seeing as his ex was stupid enough to let him go,” I muttered, returning their glare for a moment.
“Yeah, I heard from Alex what his slut-bag ex did to him. Never got to meet her, but the girl had to be crazy to pull a stunt like that on a guy like Luka,” she gossiped.
“Lucky for me though,” I reminded her.
“True enough,” she agreed.
“You’ve been coming to games for the last two years and never met Kat?” “I know it sounds weird, but from what I heard, she never came to campus for any of his games. Never went to any of his away games, even when they weren’t too far from her school. And never went to any of the tournaments, which are a hell of a lot of fun,” Lucy answered.
Her answer blew me away and gave me a little more insight into Luka’s relationship with his ex. I’d wondered how he could possibly have put their breakup behind him so quickly, but it sounded like they’
d already started to grow apart way before then. It made me sad for him while it also made me feel even more hopeful for what was building between the two of us, because there was no way in hell I’d ever take him for granted like that.
“I hope I can make one of the tournaments then,” I said.
“You’re here tonight and have only been dating Luka for what a week?”
I nodded in response.
“There you go, then. I bet you will,” she said before turning to blow kisses at a guy on the ice. “That’s my Alex.”
I watched the guys skate during warm-ups. Luka was a tall guy, but he looked huge out there on his skates with all his gear on. Every once in a while, he’d glance up at me with a grin on his face, making it clear that he was very happy I was there to catch the game. Knowing that his ex hadn’t bothered to come to any over the last three years and seeing for myself that it pleased him for me to be in the stands cheering him on, I made myself a promise to catch as many games as I could.
Lucy proved to be a godsend because she was able to explain all the rules to me because they were so confusing. The refs blew the whistle so often that it was hard to tell why they did it each time. Lucy tried to tell me about not being able to cross the blue line when the puck wasn’t in the offensive zone or else you’d be called for being off-sides. Since Luka was on defense, that didn’t seem to be a problem for him. But sometimes he would send the puck all the way across the ice and the other goalie would wave his teammates off so the ref would call Luka’s team for icing. So many darn whistles blowing.
I was impressed by how well everyone skated. They were so fast on the ice, but I was stunned by how hard they hit each other. Luka seemed to be particularly good at checking other players when they came onto his side of the ice with the puck. He spent a lot of time on the ice with Jason, skating out at the same time as him. You could tell they’d played together for a long time because they seemed to know what the other one was going to do before it happened. They switched sides of the ice, back and forth, depending on where the puck was and who could get to it fast enough.
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