“They didn’t stutter, take it off.”
He grins and pulls the base layer over his head in one motion. I try to swallow, but nothing seems to be happening. He is cut to perfection.Am I drooling?I sure as hell hope not. The noise of the team screaming as he swings his shirt high above his head like a lasso pulls me back to the situation. I should not be perving on that man.
“Work it, Fish!” Bouch yells from the bench.
And he does. He drops into some kind of hip roll that has no business being that coordinated, then flips into a press-up on the ice, showing off his muscular arms. Next, he shifts into the move that has made all the girlies swoon during warmups as he dry humps the ice. His teammates urge him on, while the girls continue to film. The internet is going to go wild for this. He then jumps up and skates backward, shirtless, soaking in the praise as he rubs his hands all over his toned body.
“Best day ever.” Billie giggles.
He then skates over into a slide that has him spraying me with ice and him on his knees in front of me.
Evan slow claps from the bench. “Awesome work.”
“Thanks, glad someone appreciates the art.” Fish grins.
He’s panting as he looks up at me. “Did I pass, or do you want more?” And the way he asks ‘want more’ sounds as if he is asking for something else. I’m flustered suddenly and can’t find an intelligent comeback to him.
“You’re good,” I tell him as I turn on my heel and skate away, my face feeling like it’s on fire.
“Put your clothes back on.” I hear Emmett call out to him.
7
FISH
The group chat goes off before I’ve even left the building.
Bouch: I can’t believe that happened.
Nelly: Fish got owned by a girl.
Felix: That’s not just any girl. That’s a St. Pierre.
Pierre: Proud brother moment right there.
Fish: She got lucky.
Evan: She got lucky five times?
Fish: Yeah.
Sully: Wait, what happened? I was at physio.
Bouch: Fish challenged Collette to a shooting contest, and she destroyed him.
Sully: You challenged Pierre and Felix’s sister to a shooting contest? The girl who grew up with Pierre and Felix, the top scorers in the league.
Fish: When you say it like that.
Sully: Please tell me someone filmed it.
Nelly: Oh, it gets better.
Evan: The bet was, if she won, he had to do a striptease on the ice.
Sully: He didn’t.
Nelly: He did.