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My name tumbles from her lips as she arches into me, taking my dick and fingers so perfectly.

“Is this what you wanted when you snuck in here? To have your ass and pussy come like this? Because they are, Kitten. I can feel you all over me.”

My own filthy mouth is my undoing, and I drop my face into the pillow beside her, groaning and moaning through the best orgasm I’ve ever had.

“Thank you,” I breathe out quietly. “Thank you for giving me the chance to prove I’m not the jackass he made me out to be. I’m not, Kendra. All I am is in love with you.”

She runs a hand through the hair at the back of my head, and I lift up to look at her. “Do I have to wait a little longer before I win your heart over?” I place my palm over her chest as it rises and falls rapidly.

She cups each side of my face in her hands, stroking my cheeks with her thumbs. “You have it, in its entirety. Truthfully, Ithink you always have, even if I just didn’t know it. Even if it never felt like it. I always knew you were around; I could always feel your presence from across the room at parties.” She kisses my forehead, and my heart detonates. “I love you, Jack. Forever.”

My knuckles tighten around the headboard as I roll into her again. Despite the fact that I just came, I’m still hard, and she’s soaking from us both.

“I reckon we have a few more hours before everyone wakes up. Let me show you what it’s like to be the center of someone’s world.”

CHAPTER FORTY

KENDRA

“You know, I’ve always thought I could never move away from England.” Darcy looks around the arena and then back at us all sitting in the family box. “But I see the appeal of New York. It kind of feels like anything can happen when you’re here. Sort of like you have the world at your fingertips.”

Collins snorts a laugh as the Dallas goalie stretches out on the ice. “Oh, there are some benefits all right. You can invite me along to asmanyhockey games as you like. Speaking of eye candy …” She pulls a packet of jelly beans from her coat pocket and pours a ton out on the table next to her, sorting all of the red ones into a neat pile.

I quirk a brow as Darcy and Jenna watch on from beside her.

“What are you doing?” Darcy asks.

She slides the rest into the packet, leaving only the red ones to eat. “This color tastes way better.”

“Or you could just buy the red ones?” Jenna suggests, looking out onto the ice.

Collins shrugs a shoulder and pops a few more into hermouth. “Where would the fun in that be? I think there’s something to be said for working for it.”

“Speaking of which, how’s the new job?”

She waggles her brows at me. “Well, the head mechanic offers a great servicing package.”

Jenna throws a hand over her mouth as Felicity returns with a tray of drinks for us all.

“You are not getting into it with your boss?” Jenna gasps. “That’s never a good move. I remember back in high school, the principal started dating the head of science, and let’s just say, it didn’t end well. She had to leave and?—”

“He’s not my boss,” Collins clarifies. “We’re just messing around, and like I’ve been telling Kendra, it’s been way too long. I needed the light relief.”

“Yeah, I get that,” Jenna says, taking a sip of her soda and practically serenading it. Sugary drinks are a rarity for her, especially now that she’s stepping up her conditioning for international duty.

My heart drops a little. It’s been three weeks since I received the email from Team USA, and it still feels just as raw.

“You and Lee are constantly at it,” I gibe. “When I was living at your place, that’s all I heard. Literally.”

Darcy waves a dismissive hand in front of her. “Let me tell you, that all dies down after a while. Give it a few more months, and you’ll be waking him up for snoring rather than round two.”

I open my mouth to argue since I can never see a time when Jack isn’t laying me on a random surface and “stealing some sexy time,” as he calls it, but Felicity gets there first.

“Jon and I go at it most nights.”

Darcy holds up a hand, feigning to puke, when her attention snags on the Jumbotron. The players are skating off the ice after warm-up, and the camera pans to Archer as he pulls off his helmet.

Jenna side-eyes me, curiosity written all over her face. I lookat Felicity and she wears a similar expression, but none of us says anything.