The hockey captain & the single mom

Chapter two

I got home from the rink just after seven in the evening, and since coach had convinced Penny to get Emily and Nikki to come out, I’m not going to lie I was buzzing. I don’t know why I’ve taken such a liking to her I mean yeah she is stunning, and most guys would kill to be with her but the last woman I was remotely interested in was my ex and that ended three years ago.

The second I saw her with the camera hanging around her neck, I was hooked. I got some good information about her from Penny and Blake when I was skating around with her phone, but that’s my little secret for now.

I ate some food and got a shower dressing in black suit pants with a white dress shirt, I spread my rings out over my fingers and stepped into some black formal shoes. Carl had told me in the locker room that Nikki had gave him her number, so he is going to let her know where to meet us tonight.

I’ve drove round to Carls as I don’t drink during the season but him and some of the others might have a drink or two, plus we are going to Penny's tomorrow night, so I've got make sure these idiots are on their best behaviour in case coach finds out.

Carl is sitting with a cocky ass grin on his face when I walk in, this makes me instantly suspicious.

“Dude, you got it bad” huh not what I expected

“What you on about?” I ask placing myself on his sofa

“Here” he says handing me his phone, I turn the screen to see a photo off myself looking over Emilys shoulder at the photos she had taken, and I have a s**t eating grin on my face, Nikki must have taken it. I shrug handing him his phone back

“Doesn’t mean anything” is all I say, and he raises a brow giving me a knowing look, he’s been my best mate since we were six years old, s**t!

“If you say so” he chuckles before walking over to his bedroom.

Anthony and Dale are getting an uber to the bar, so I drive over with Carl. The bar is packed it’s not usually this busy on a Friday evening, we find Anthony and Dale in a booth and head over.

We’ve been here for an hour when Carl heads over to exit and I know he has gone to meet Nikki and Emily by the smirk on his face when he got a message. I had already decided I'm going to play it cool with Emily the last thing she probably wants is me getting all possessive so quickly.

My previous statement went out the window when I saw Emily walking towards the booth, she is wearing a red dress with no straps it ends just above her knee and hugs every stunning curve perfectly, the black heels she is wearing are high enough to make her at least five inches taller, her brown hair is curled and to be honest she looks like she has just walked straight out of a magazine.

The smile she is wearing is what attracts me the most, she really is breathtaking. As she steps up to booth she leans in wrapping her arms around my neck which shocks the s**t out of me to be honest

“Thank you for all the stuff for Blake, he’s going to love it” she says close to my ear so I can hear her over the music, coach and I got the team to sign a jersey, a kids stick, a cap and a backpack for Blake.

“You're more than welcome, plus he said he’s going to show me all his Panther pictures tomorrow” I laugh as she slaps my bicep before taking a seat next to me. Carl and Nikki came from the bar with more drinks and Nikki shoved Emily closer to me so her and Carl could fit in, I'm guessing Nikki did it on purpose by the smirk on her face.

After about thirty minutes Nikki dragged Emily to the dancefloor and now I look like some creep because I can’t take my f*****g eyes off Emily. The way here hips are swaying to beat of the music is driving me f*****g insane, I'm sure she knows what she is doing as she was facing me before, but she’s turned so I've got a full few of her perfect ass, yes I'm an ass man, and what.

“You look lonely, handsome. Want some company?” here we go another f*****g puck bunny

“Not interested” I state firmly hoping she gets the message

“Hey baby” Emily knocks past the fake woman and Emily sits on my knee, is she going to carry on f*****g shocking me because judging by the smirk on her face, she knows I'm shocked, she leans in as I wrap my arm around her back and waist to stop her from falling to the floor “You looked fed up with Miss fake t**s, so thought I would help you out since you made my sons day” she says in my ear, hopefully she doesn’t move any further into me or she will feel just how f*****g grateful I am

“Thank you, beautiful” I whisper back in her ear, and I can’t help but feel proud when her body trembles, not just me that’s affected then

“Looks like my work here is done” she laughs looking to where the puck bunny has disappeared from and she tries to get back up, but my arm pulls her back down “I like having you sitting here like this-” she moves her ass back wiggling it right over my crotch “f*****g hell, what are you trying to do to me?” I whisper in her ear, but she laughs and takes the opportunity to escape, and she runs back to Nikki on the dance floor.

Before I know it, it’s one in the morning and Anthony and Dale have just ordered an uber even though I told them I would take them home, they were all good tonight they only had two drinks then moved onto water, Nikki was sipping cocktails all night whereas Emily had two bottles of desperados then moved onto water.

“You wanting dropping of at yours, Carl? Or you crashing at mine?” I ask but he looks to Nikki who hasn’t took her eyes off him all night except to wind Emily up or wink at me because she knew I couldn’t keep my eyes off Emily

“Mine please mate” he says as he opens the back door of my car to let Nikki in while I open the passenger door for Emily, she’s been giving me weird looks all night followed by smiles and there has been some flirting.

Nikki and Carl have been making out all the way back to Carls, I'll be dropping them both of there by the look of it, Emily has kept trying to secretly watch me as I drive but not secretly enough as I’ve noticed every time.

I pull up to Carls's apartment complex when Emily turns to Nikki

“Have a good night, and if you can’t be good be careful” she laughs as Nikki glares at her before getting out

“I could say the same to you two, the s****l tension is so thick I couldn’t breathe, and you two having been looking like you want to rip each other's clothes off all night, night lovebirds” she says in a sing-song voice following Carl out and closing the door.

We couldn’t hold our laughter in, the second I started the car we both started laughing, although her description was accurate, well it was from my side of things anyway the description also made Emily close off slightly, I've realised that I am going to have to spend some time alone with her so that I can actually get to know her.

When we pull up onto her driveway and I park the car, I get out opening the car door for her and walk her up to the door of the house, it’s when she wraps her arms around my neck again that I realize she is never going to stop shocking me.

“Thank you for tonight it was actually fun, do you know that’s the first time I've been out since before I fell pregnant with Blake” Well that’s new information, I make a mental note of it

“Well, I'm glad you had fun and I'm sure you’ll start getting out and about more” I say confidently. I’m not going to move too fast with her, but I will be taking her out soon

“You’re awfully confident there, De Marco” she says with her arms still wrapped around my neck I couldn’t help but wrap my arms around her waist

“I know what I want and I know when I want it, you only get one life, so you have to be prepared to give anything a go in this life” her expression is either recognition of what I've just said or nervousness, I can’t work it out “good night, Emily” I place a kiss on her cheek before heading towards my car

“You know, it’s rude to leave a woman at her door” she shouts over to my car with a smirk that could bring the toughest man to his f*****g knees, I don’t even think about it before I turn around and make my way over to where she still stands

“What would you have man do while dropping off then, Emily?” I ask tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, I don’t miss the harsh swallow she does meaning that action caught her off guard

“He should at least wait until she is inside of her house” she says almost to quietly

“I wasn’t going to drive off until you had gone in, trust me Emily I’m trying to stop myself from doing anything stupid”

“Like what?” she asks inching closer to my face

“Like grabbing you and kissing the living f**k out of you and making myself look like the stereotypical hockey player” I answer as truthfully as I can while she gets even closer, she places a small tender kiss on my lips that could melt anything and anyone

“Good night, Ryan” and she turns and walks through the f*****g door, f**k me if we were further from her door I would have grabbed her wrist pulling her back to me and making sure she could feel every part of me while my tongue explored her mouth, and now I look like a creep staring at a closed door with the hard bulge straining against my pants. f**k!

Last night when I got home was hell, I had a cold shower and tried to sleep but the sun is up now and I’ve had around three hours sleep. I couldn’t get the imagine of the brown-haired goddess out of my head.

My door buzzes, I step out of bed pulling on a pair of basketball shorts and go to the door, the face that comes into view is not the one I want to see when I'm tired

“Hey dude, damn you look s**t” Carl the little fucker has a smug grin on his face, he pushes past me and heads for my coffee machine “want one?” he asks, and I tilt my head so he knows he’s asking a stupid f*****g question

“My bad” he chuckles, and carries on making two cappuccinos, we sit down at my breakfast bar, and I chug half of my coffee down in one gulp

“You going to spill what’s going on or do I have to get Nikki to give me the deets” he smirks, the little shithead

“Just don’t, f**k!” I throw my head onto my arms that are resting on the surface

“You don’t have to tell me, but dude, you look like s**t” I raise my head and glare at him he throws his hands up in surrender “I just ain’t slept much” I say trying to end the conversation.

We had a midmorning practise today, and it’s been hell. Coach has been getting on my back, I even got checked into the boards by Xander the little prick, I've always hated him.

Coach ended practise early, and I went straight home, thankfully I was able to get a few hours' sleep before coach messaged with the address even though I already have it. He’s told us all to be at Penny’s between six and seven this evening.

Penny said there will be food, but I don’t think she will know just how much us hockey players eat, so I made an omelette and had a coffee before having a shower. For some reason I’ve perked up again, coach told us to dress casually.

I put on some grey sweatpants, a white tshirt and shoved my white hoodie over my head, slipping my rings on and getting my white and black air jordans on. Grabbing my keys, I sent Carl a message telling him I’ll be there to pick him up in five minutes.

I took my Audi R8 V10 tonight which is why I managed to get to Carls in just under three minutes, he was glad to see I had perked up from earlier. Coach had also let us know that practise was at one in the afternoon tomorrow.

We arrived at Penny’s at just after six and were glad to see it was only coach here so far. I parked up next to coach's car, and Carl was smirking like a f*****g i***t I pushed his shoulder as we started walking towards the door, that f*****g door from last night.

Carl rang the doorbell and it wasn’t more than ten seconds before Nikki threw the door wide open wrapping her arms around Carl’s neck, I roll my eyes at them but I laugh, he deserves happiness.

Nikki leads us inside the impressive sized detached house, she warned me that Blake is still awake, and he’s not stopped talking about us coming over, I had to laugh and as we walk into the large kitchen, I see the dark-haired little boy struggling out of Penny’s arms,

“Grandma, coach, look it’s De Marco and Beechford!” he shouts, making Penny and coach laugh

“Hey bud, did your momma give you the stuff from the team?” I ask bending down to his tiny frame

“Yup, but I had to wait until this morning for it, momma said it was too late last night, and I had to go bed” he says with a pout, I can’t help but pick him up, he’s too f*****g cute and he is the spitting image of his mom, he would love my niece “Grandma look De Marco is holding me” he squeals making everyone laugh

“Here Blake” I give him the five dollars I promised for the swear jar “for the swear jar” I say, and he giggles pointing to a jar on the side, I walk over, and he puts it in the jar

“Thank you, grandma look, momma will be able to take me to the toy store” he chuckles again making everyone laugh again looking at the nearly full jar, with a mouth like Emily’s I'm not surprised it’s almost full, it probably will be by the end of the night.

“Where’s my baby-” I spin around at the voice and almost melt on the spot “Oh hey” her cheeks turn a light shade of pink and the blusher she has on does nothing to hide natural blush on her face

“Hi Emily” I say at the same time “Hi Ems” Carl says making me glare at him, so he’s already on nickname basis with her

“Hi momma, look who’s holding me” Blake giggles in my arms and I whisper in his ear “Go give your mom a hug and kiss” he giggles and nods and I set him on the floor as he runs over to his mom and does exactly what I said, great now I'm jealous of a three year old!

Emily’s wearing a white tank top and some small denim shorts with some white air jordans and I can’t help but smile at the same taste, her brown hair is up in a messy bun on top of her head

The door goes a couple more times and soon everyone is here, including that prick Xander who has decided to take some f*****g puck bunny, f*****g great!

Penny shows everyone outside and coach stops me

“I’ll keep an eye on him, don’t let him get to you. Enjoy yourself De Marco”

“Got it coach” I say as we head outside, f*****g hell the garden is massive, the huge built in grill is already on cooking some burgers, there’s a massive pool, and a huge seating area as well as a built-in outdoor fire pit.

“Hey” her voice makes me turn

“Hey beautiful, this place is stunning” I say trying to look around the garden but failing as I can’t take my eyes off her

“Yeah, it is. I love it out here on an evening” she says, I can see why as the twinkling lights around the whole garden come on

“I can see why, what time you putting little man to bed?” I ask notice Blake rubbing his eyes but still beaming at me in his little spiderman pyjamas

“Actually, I took him out to say night to everyone, you’re the first person he wanted to see” she rolls her eyes but I can’t bite back my smile, I hold my arms out and he’s immediately reaching out for me, and I take him from his mom “Oh great now I've lost my son” she laughs and shakes her head as I take him around everyone so he can say good night.

“Can De Marco tuck me in?” he asks his mom sleepily from my arms

“Fine, but you have to go straight to sleep, got it?” she asks ruffling his hair and he smiles widely nodding at her and we head through the kitchen, through the foyer and up the stairs heading to the room at the end of the left hallway, she opens his door and I can’t help but laugh when I notice he’s asleep on my shoulder with his arms around my neck.

“f*****g t**t, you’ve stole my son” Emily says when she notices him, I walk over to his bed and lay him down gently before pulling his blanket up over him and standing back to full height and stretching my back

“You know you have to add two dollars to the swear jar” I say, and she shoots me a glare while rolling her eyes as she places a kiss on the little boy's head and I laugh walking out of the room and head downstairs and back out to the garden leaving her with Blake, I didn’t want to be alone with her upstairs because my self-control is failing rapidly.

“You looked rather comfortable with him” f*****g Carl doesn’t miss a beat

“You know Mya is the same age right, I've got experience” I say mentioning my niece as he like an uncle to her

“Yeah, but it was like a real family moment when you two were walking inside, even Xander commented on it” he says, and I snap my head in his direction

“What the f**k did he say?”

“Don’t get pissed at this mate, you know what he’s like, but he said ‘is that De Marcos new piece of ass’ like I said dude don’t get pissed just leave it” he says but my fists clench, I can’t help it and I know Xanders trying to get a rise out of me but it’s not happening.

Emily returned and coach had cooked so much f*****g food it was unreal, now everyone is sat around the fire pit. She’s sat next to me on a double seated chair, I notice the shiver that goes through her body, I take my hoddie off and give it to her

“You’ll get cold, I'll get one from inside” she says and I pull her hand back down when she tries to stand “You’ve got to stop doing that” she laughs as she’s now right next to my body

“No, I like doing it, and if there weren’t so many pairs of eyes on us I would’ve pulled you on to my lap” her whole body shivers at this, thank f**k I'm not imagining the effect I have on her, I can’t help but laugh when she glares at me and puts my hoodie on before sticking her tongue out at me but I can’t concentrate on that when her hand lands on my thigh and she doesn’t move it.

Emily went back inside to check on Blake as he was stirring on the video monitor we were both staring at, I sit talking with Penny, Nikki, Carl, Anthony and few other guys about the upcoming game when I get a weird feeling, I don’t know what it is, I head inside and my whole body freezes as I see Xander trying to talk to Emily in the kitchen.

Coach is also watching from the foyer, their voices raise slightly and he grabs Emily’s wrist when she tries to walk away from him, I can’t help but storm over to them, I grab him by the collar of his shirt and push him against the kitchen counter

“Go near her again and I'll kill you! Got it?” I growl in his face as coach pats my shoulder I back off slightly

“You and your little bimbo aren’t welcome here, get the f**k out, oh and your benched for the next game, now get that bimbo and get out!” coach whisper yells in Xanders face being considerate of the sleeping little boy upstairs, Xander scurries off to the garden and grabs his puck bunny before swiftly exiting.

“You okay beautiful?” I ask, and she surprises me by smiling

“I’m fine, he asked if we were together and when I told him we were he got pissed and told me he could show me a better time, that’s when I told him that he’ll never get the pleasure of hearing me moan his name like I do yours and that’s when he grabbed my wrist” she laughs and she puts her finger on my jaw closing my mouth, damn this woman!

Now all I can think of is her moaning my name while her f**k her hard. s**t I need to stop! When she told me she told Xander we were together I know it was obviously to piss him off but f**k me I got goosebumps.