I Lost a Bet to My Hockey Rival, Now I Wear His Number novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Night Before the Deadline
Nash put the letter back in the duffel exactly the way he'd found it.
He folded it on the same crease, and zipped the bag, and stood in the bedroom doorway with his heart going.
He had promised to ask after the deadline.
He had promised it on a couch with his pants undone, and he was a man who kept his promises, even the dumb ones.
The deadline was tomorrow at three.
October thirteenth was a Tuesday.
He had looked it up.
At ten Gaspard came out of the shower with a towel around his waist and found Nash at the stove, making eggs.
They were terrible eggs.
"You cook," Gaspard said.
"I'm told it's like a hockey stick. You hold it and hope."
"You are quiet."
"I'm concentrating."
"On eggs."
"On not burning them."
Gaspard looked at him for a second too long.
Then he came up behind him, set one palm in the small of Nash's back, and pressed his thumb into the dimple where the last stroke of the 9 had ended.
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