Excerpt #4 for He Has Pluck

Sep 18, 2022 4:42 pm

Another Exclusive Excerpt from He Has Pluck!

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Exclusive Excerpt #4: He Has Pluck

Jason

“That’s bullshit.” My words are quiet and directed at her. I ignore fucking Carlos and walk out. I shouldn’t feel betrayed because what is she to me? My lover? Hardly. There’s no love between us. Not even friendship. Most of the time, she’s my fucking enemy, hater of useless hockey and hockey players.

But some of the time, there’s something else between us. I feel those occasional waves of admiration, feel a well of something more than sensual pleasure filling me. Hell, we have our laughs. Of course there’s something. Friends? Definitely not.

Hell if I know what we are to each other besides a constant knot of tension that seems to get tighter and more twisted every time we’re together.

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As I pull out of the garage I glance at the gas gauge of my old mustang and it’s almost on empty. Shit. I’m already late to meet the landlady at the house in Chelsea. All my things fill the back seat because there was no room in the trunk with the tire and tools stashed there.

Before I pull onto the street to head north over the Tobin Bridge, I slip my phone out and hit the number for the woman I spoke with to let her know I’m running late. After I stop for gas, I punch the address into the navigator and make my way to the place I’m going to live for the next month or so, hopefully longer.

When I arrive, a large older woman dressed in what looks like a nightgown and slippers stands on the curb waiting for me. I follow the woman inside the place, which turns out to be a boarding house, and I wonder if maybe it was a mistake to rent the room sight unseen.

The place is worse than I expected. It’s not the dingy smell or the dirt or worn paint, but the clientele that lives here that gives me pause. When she shows me the main common room on the first floor, I haven’t seen so many strung out, beat up people since I bailed dad out of jail that one time.

But I suppose the vibe of desolation suits my mood right now. I’m dangerously close to fucking up my chance for the NHL, to blowing my chance at the fucking Stanley Cup, over a woman. One who doesn’t even like hockey, one who doesn’t respect me. One who can’t be trusted.

One who hates me, wants to fuck me and… One who doesn’t like that she wants to spend the night with me because she’s never spent the night with any man before me for fuck’s sake.

What kind of woman is she?

The kind your dick can’t live without, apparently.

Too bad for my dick because the rest of me can’t afford to have anything to do with her. I don’t care about her vulnerable underbelly, how strong she is and how emotionally stunted she is or where her wounds came from. I don’t care that she truly wants to make a difference in the world, that she’s smarter than hell and makes me laugh when she’s not looking and that she’s so fucking dedicated to excellence at her job and has massive talent to go with her work ethic chops.

This is what I think as I follow my landlady to the second floor and we run into a guy in the stairwell who looks so high he’s checked out. As long as I don’t breathe too deeply I can stand it. We stop at room 23, my jersey number, and she hands me the key. My lips curve up and I unlock the door.

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