The Hockey Captain’s Unwanted Wife (Blair and Grayson) novel Chapter 169

Chapter 169

HARLOTTE

I watched in horror, rooted to the ground, unable to look away.

Roman hit Luca hard and Luca hit back just as hard. It was painful to watch and wouldn’t be the first time I’d seen my best friend in a fight.

The first exchange was ugly enough to make my stomach drop.

Vale’s fist found Luca’s mouth and the sound made me wince. Luca’s shoulder drove into Vale’s ribs and they slammed into the barrier hard enough to bruise.

I gasped when I saw blood on Luca’s lip. I always got crazy protective when I saw even the smallest bruise him.

“I told you to stay away from her!” Roman shouted.

Luca spat blood and laughed through it, that terrible laugh he used when a crash had not quite killed him. “Haven’t you made her cry enough already?”

I didn’t know how to feel seeing how much Luca liked Olivia. It was new for me. Him actually like one of the girls he’d set his eyes on.

They went back and forth after that, arguing about the many times Luca got Olivia in trouble by just existing and the many times Vale let her down.

Luca hooked an arm around his neck and they hit the gravel together, Vale’s knee driving into his thigh, both of them making sounds that did not belong in a place for racers.

I did not know the whole story. I knew enough, and enough was already too much.

Olivia Monroe. She seemed to have every guy interested in her without even trying. I remembered Luca saying he liked her by the pool while I sat in the next chair with a smile that had taken years to perfect and

still hurt.

I had practiced that smile through hotels and girls who lasted a day or sometimes just an hour.

I told myself watching him choose someone else was a job I had signed up for at seventeen when I decided to be his full support and was too loyal to quit.

Today the job was standing in a pit lane while the first girl he had actually liked became the reason another man was trying to break his face, and my hands would not stay still at my sides.

I could not stand back and watch my best friend get beaten.

Olivia moved at the same time I did, as if we had been pulled by the same string.

I grabbed Luca. She grabbed Roman around the neck.

“Please stop!” She begged.

Mon, Sep 2

The Monkey Captain’s Unwanted Wile

Luca still had a fist twisted in Roman’s shirt, stubborn even with my weight on him. “At least I am not hiding that I like Olivia.”

My heart hurt at hearing him say that. It was the kind of hurt that made my fingers clumsy on his jacket.

I had been in love with Luca Vescari for a long time, and all he saw when he looked at me was his best friend, a sister, one of the boys, the person who went everywhere with him including every room where he picked up a new girl and forgot about me the second he did.

This was the first time he had actually liked one of them, and I understood that it was probably because

Olivia did not want him back.

He liked the challenge. I had known that about him since we were teenagers.

He liked her because she wasn’t like every other girl going all crazy over him. Because she said she was not interested. Because she had been crying over someone else and he had been the first person standing

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