Chloe Pov

I can't believe it happened and Kate can't believe I walked away. Both are pretty crazy if you think about it. I fucked my childhood NHL crush. And he was into me. What in the fever dream is this?

If I told this to 16-year-old Chloe she'd be ecstatic, if I told the same thing to Chloe who just joined Miami Vipers she'd be petrified. Current Chloe is something in the middle. I know it can never happen again but also I never had sex that actually was good.

I'm dreading tomorrow. The weekend is coming to an end, and the next two games are home ones, so no matter what, I will have to see him. Do I want to see him? That's a question I'm not ready to answer.

We have a media day tomorrow as well, and we need to film PR content to continue improving our team image. The video of me went viral, and I reposted it on our social media, so it's going well so far. Also, it is very good that Alexander Starkov is as hot as they get. Some might not love the game, per se, but they sure do love hot men skating and fighting on the ice.

In all fairness, I think Miami Vipers have one of the hottest guys on the team which is why I need to show them off. Oh, and there is a charity ball coming up and I have the perfect idea. We are going to offer them up for a date to the highest bidder. Cliche right? But people will pay plenty to spend a day with an NHL star. Married and taken guys are excluded since we don't need bad publicity or for wags to hate me.

Katherine and I are meeting tonight for some drinks and a well-needed chill-out. Exhibition games are officially done and we are starting to play for positions. At the end of the day, we want to get to playoffs. I don't doubt our guys but this is so much more important than the first game of the pre-season since it actually counts. We need to get all the points that we can.

So my schedule is full for the foreseeable future so tonight I chill and tomorrow back to work. I have been successfully acting professionally around Alexander in the past weeks and I really hope it won't change now that we have to spend time together. A lot of it.

Between Liam and Alexander, I already have my hands full. They are the well-known, proven hockey players, the rest are great but most are new so nowhere near as well known. But we are in the process of building their social media and increasing their presence.

Our enforcer, Bryce Taylor, is another key player that needs to be looked after. He is a great guy but takes his role very seriously both on and off the ice. The guy just has anger issues which is fine when it is on ice. A big PR problem off-ice.

I've been practically all over the place but I need to get my shit together asap as I can't act as disorganised as soon as the week starts. I might have had a few days off but now it's game time.

"Quit this shit, Chloe," I say as I look into my reflection. I have been obsessing and overanalysing absolutely everything ever since I walked out from Alxenader's suite. I have wanted to revert time and never leave more than I can admit.

It has been a long few weeks but I have to snap out of it. It is not healthy and it obvilusly meant nothing. As long as I repeat it to myself I am sure I can believe it one day. Like it definitely was the best sex of my life. To be fair it was so much more than sex and fucking. That night ruined me for all the men besides him.

He read my body like I was a puck that he had to catch, reading the body language like it was his first language, knowing exactly what to do to get a reaction out of me. It feels like he knows my body better than I do

I tried to snap myself out of this circle of destruction but I knew that at the end of the day, he is so deeply engraved into my subconscious that I cannot physically stop myself.

After I finished getting myself ready, I poured myself a glass of wine, well it is probably closer to half a bottle but it fit into the glass so I'll count it as one.

I knew I had to stop this obsession, we work together and nothing can ever happen between us, but somehow he already managed to crawl into my heart. I just hope it's just a stupid crush and not something more serious.

Then again, we are friends, right? I can have friendly feelings for him. Like I've learned to love Kate? This is definitely the reason, I just like him as a friend.

I was finally snapped out by the knock on the door.

"You saved me from having a breakdown!" I say as soon as I open the door but stopped halfway as it is definitely not the ginger outspoken girl I was waiting for.

Not even thinking it through I tried to shut the door but the one person I tried so hard to stop thinking about grabbed it not letting it shut. He opened it back up, he was smiling at me. The arrogant bastard knew what he was doing.

"That wasn't so nice of you, Kotenok." He tsk as he stood right outside my door. I thought he would barger in but he just stood there waiting. I knew he wanted an invitation but he isn't getting it.

Crossing my arms trying to look more sure of myself I asked him, "What are you doing here?". My voice has betrayed me a little as it sounded a lot more softer than what I intended.

"You were ignoring me again. Now, will you let me in?" I think he purposely made himself sound more Russian. There isn't much of a difference but there is one for sure. Was he trying to intimidate me or make me horny?

"I was not and no can do, pretty boy," I smirked at him, looking up to look into his eye. His pupils were blown, he is definitely at least a little bit turned on but probably more pissed. From what I gathered he gets off on control, it's his kink. Is my kink pissing him off? Then again I loved giving up control.

Fuck, I'm a brat

How basic, a girl with daddy issues is a brat. Well, fuck. Whatever.

"Why not?" Alexander is clearly irritated. Good, I want to affect him as much as he affects me. Is it petty? Probably. But I do not care anymore. My thoughts have been occupied with memories of him in the past weeks.

"Because I have plans," I said as a matter of fact.

"With who?"

"None of your business." as I said it the movement behind him caught my eye. Katherine is finally here. She is too noisy to interrupt our little reunion though. She wants to see how it plays out.

"Really, now?" He almost growls out, making it so hard not to rub my thighs together. I need some friction, this guy turns me on way too much.

"Yes, is that an issue?" I smirked and from his point of view it would have looked like I was detecting it at him, but in reality, it was towards Kate. She was absolutely enjoying the show.

I stepped through the threshold of my apartment, trying not to care that I stepped right into his space. I just had not act like he affected me.

As I locked my apartment, Alexander took one step and was mere inches from me. He looked down searching for my eyes, I tried my best to avoid them but I only had so much self-control.

As I looked up into his eyes he whispered, "Good girl" This time his Russian accent wasn't fake. I couldn't pull away, my gaze was locked onto his. I was like clay in his hands, ready to be moulded to whatever position he wanted me in.

"Katherine is better be the only one besides me who knows your home address." His voice was low, too low for her to hear, but as he kissed my cheek and smiled as he turned around to greet her I knew he was aware of her from the get-go.

The guy has eyes on the back of his head...

"Hello there, Sacha." Kate smiled back at him, not ashamed at all for walking into whatever the hell was going on here.

"Sunshine, please do make Chloe here use my nickname. I'd love it." The bastard winked at her as he moved away and proceeded to walk away. His ass is so hot, when did I become an ass woman? Then again everything about this guy is annoyingly attractive.

"See you later, Kotenok. I gave you time but if you think it is over between us, you couldn't be more wrong." the only thing I could do is stand and watch. His threat, well it was more of an admission or a promise made me speechless.

As much as I want us to be friends can we really? I want to try but he makes it so hard.

As Alexander was out of our sight Kate wiggled her eyebrows before laughing so hard everyone in the building could hear her. "You have it so bad for him."

"No, I do not," I tried to argue but it was a futile fight. Anyone could see it even if they were blind, it was that obvious.

"Girl, I think we need drinks and a lot of them." She said as she looped her arm through mine. I nodded in agreement. We just need to get drunk and take our minds off men.

"Absolutely, we need a night without the sexy hockey players in our lives." I laughed as we stepped into the lift. We are so gonna regret it tomorrow, but tonight will be worth it.

"They make our life more complicated. We need a bit of easy in our life." she pressed the ground floor.

I laughed before continuing her sentence, "Alcohol is easy." We both laughed, our voices echoing in the lift.

'AMEN!" Kate screamed right before the doors opened. Fuck, we are about to have a violent night out.

So much for having a chill one. But from her reaction to Alexander, there is obviously something going on with Liam. Then again, there always is.

They are like magnets, always trying to connect and collide but for some reason, both of them refuse to accept it.

She has been opening up about it but so far it is still a jumbled mess, then again, maybe it is so in real life too.

Sometimes being an adult sucks.