The Hockey Captain’s Unwanted Wife (Blair and Grayson) novel Chapter 166

Chapter 166

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The articles were everywhere.

Hotel doors. Her face. My hand. Captions that made a night of takeout sound like more.

I groaned and dropped the phone on the lounge like it had personally insulted my driving.

Charlotte was on the next chair in sunglasses, legs in the sun. Legs I’d noticed before and ignored. Brunette hair wet at the ends from an earlier swim. We had the suite for a week. Pool in the morning. A quiet day. That had been the plan before Olivia Monroe walked out a basketball game crying and I put her in a car like I was a decent person for one night.

“I cannot believe the mess I have made,” I said.

Charlotte did not look away from the water. “You say that like it is new.”

“This one is new. Usually the mess is a girl in my bed and then a blocked number. This is different.”

“You do have a brand,” she said. Still watching the pool. “Consistency. I will give you that.”

“I actually like her.” The words came out before I could stop them. “First time in a long time. Not a random hookup. Not a girl I forget at security. I like Olivia.”

Charlotte went quiet.

Not her usual quiet. The kind that stayed in the air and made everything still.

I turned my head. “Why are you suddenly so quiet? I usually can’t get you to stop talking.”

She rolled her eyes behind the glasses, I could tell because I knew her so well. “You have fucked around so much that it has come back to bite you in the ass. I am taking a moment of silence for your ass.”

I sighed. “Her father will never allow it. He is probably already on damage control. Men like William Monroe do not like their daughters with men like me. They do solutions to fix the mess I caused. I am

never the solution.”

Charlotte adjusted her sunglasses. “Imagine that.”

My phone buzzed.

I frowned at the screen. I was so shocked, I had to read the message five times.

“Fuck.”

“What’s wrong?” Charlotte asked. Soft. Then she cleared her throat like the softness in her tone had been an accident.

“Turns out I made more of a mess than I initially thought.”

“What do you mean?”

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“Nico is being forced to marry Olivia. To make up for the scandal.” I sat up. “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”

Charlotte laughed. Actually laughed. I threw my water bottle at her.

“You sure do have a way of making things worse, Vescari.”

I stared at the message again. Nico claimed giving my number to Olivia was the reason he was being handed a bride.

The universe had a sense of humor and it was not on my side.

“I am going to be the best man at a wedding I caused. The bride being the first girl I’ve ever truly been interested in. That is a new personal low.”

“You would not be the best man,” Charlotte said. “You would be the man they mention in the vows.”

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