Page 3 of Risky Play

I groaned.

Cally. That was one hundred percent a stupid hockey nickname.

Because of course he was a hockey player at my hockey-playing brother’s wedding. If he played with Noah, that meant he was off-limits. Or rather, I was off-limits. Hockey players didn’t break the code. If they did, there was hell to pay. I’d seen it so many times before growing up in hockey culture.

Dinah squeezed my arm. “Ask him to dance later.”

“What? No! Noah would flip out.”

At the sound of his name, my brother turned to us with a smirk. “What are you two scheming about over there? What would I flip out about?”

Dinah gave him a sweet smile, and it was like a light switch got flipped because my brother looked like he would do anything she said. Holy shit, Dinah was the alpha in their relationship. “Oh, babe, Maddie told me great news.”

He furrowed his brow. “What?”

I opened my mouth, not sure what she was playing at, but she beat me to it. “She’s moving to Philly.”

“What?” Noah snapped, and I immediately had my hackles up.

“I’m transferring to Franklin U,” I explained.

The crease in his brow deepened. “What?”

“C’mere you,” Dinah ordered, and she pulled his face to hers to meet him in a long kiss. I gagged because I’m pretty sure I saw some tongue again. Ew.

When I quit trying to throw up in my mouth, I realized what she was doing. She was distracting him for me. Dinah was the best! Rox figured out what was going on, too, because she grabbed my wrist and led me over to the bar to grab herself another drink.

“So your brother does that whole big brother protective bullshit thing?” the older woman asked.

I sighed. “Rox, he scares every dude away. Every single one!”

She tried not to laugh.

“How did TJ take it when he found out about you and Benny?” I asked.

Hockey players not breaking the code? Yeah, Rox’s partner Benny did that with her.

She grimaced and took a sip of her drink. “Terribly. He heard us having sex.”

I felt my eyes bulge out of my head. “What?”

She shrugged. “Whatever, it was good sex. I’m not ashamed of it. But then he punched Benny in the stomach and drank him under the table. The next day, TJ and my dad made him bag skate while Benny was hungover. He said it was worth it.”

“Aw!” I cooed.

She smiled. “He’s a big softie.”

“Who’s a big softie?” a deep voice rumbled behind us.

“You are,” she told him with a big smile as he leaned down to kiss her. Benny was the biggest guy on the team, but Rox was on the tall side, so he didn’t have to bend that far. Not like my brother and his pocket-sized wife.

Benny eyed the two of us as he wrapped his arm around Rox from behind and kissed her neck. I was so jealous. I wanted a guy to look at me the way Benny looked at Rox. Like he couldn’t wait to peel her out of her clothes later. Why couldn’t I have that?

“What are you two up to?” he asked.

“Getting Maddie out from under Noah’s watchful eye.”

He snorted. “Noah? The nicest person I’ve ever met?”