Page 95 of So This Is War
I turn toward Coach Wood, who looks like he’s about to shove his clipboard up my ass. “She had a question,” I say, pushing away from her. “It was urgent.”
Coach Wood glances at Wylie. “Did you get your answer?”
“Yes,” she says.
“Then I suggest you leave.”
Unfazed by her dad’s harsh tone, she walks up to him, places her hand on his chest, and kisses his cheek before twiddling her fingers at me and taking off.
Well, fuck, that didn’t look good.
I nervously smile at him and start to skate away when he says, “Get your ass over here.”
Yup, didn’t think I was going to get away with that.
I skate back to the bench and say, “What’s up, Coach?”
He leans in and talks in a very dark, very scary voice. “Tell me right fucking now, is there anything going on between you and my daughter?”
“No,” I say so quickly that I repeat myself just in case he didn’t hear. “No. Nope. Nothing. Nada. Nothing at all. I swear.”
“Then why the hell did it look like there is?”
“I, uh, I don’t know. But I promise, nothing’s going on. I wouldn’t cross that line. I told you I wouldn’t, and I haven’t.”
His expression softens as he leans back now. “Did you give her the list I gave you?”
“Yes, that’s what she had a question about. We didn’t really get to talk about it all too much, so I messed up and forgot to give her suit measurements.”
“Are you sending her to the shop downtown?”
“Yes,” I answer.
“Good.” He eyes me up and down. “You haven’t been updating me.”
“Sorry, just trying to focus on the game.”
“Then get the fuck away from me and focus.”
“Yup. Got it.”
I take off and skate toward the boys, where they’re all stretching. When I join them, Eli whispers, “So . . . nothing going on with her?”
I sigh and start stretching my inner thighs. “Nothing.”
Chapter Ten
WYLIE
“Is he going to be mad that I’m in here?” Sandie asks as we watch the game on Levi’s large-screen TV rather than my computer in my tiny bedroom.
“He won’t even know.” I scrunch down on the couch and lean my head back against the cushion. “Ugh, wearing that bra was absolute torture today. Sure my boobs looked great, but that was so uncomfortable.”
“Beauty is pain.”
“More like horniness is pain.”
Sandie chuckles. “But it worked, right?”
