Imogen Don’t ask what I’m actually feeling because I don’t have the words to say right now. Except my heart feels like it has sunk to my feet, and I have a pain in my chest like someone has physically punched me in the stomach and winded me. All my life since I can recall, I have crushed on Cody Brannigan, even during the spurts when I tried to pretend that I hated him, that he was the pain in my ass I could do without. All the time I have seen him with other girls being a total man-whore, moving from one girl to the next through school and high school and then worse when he became the golden boy of hockey, of course I couldn’t help but follow him on social media. Where there was always a picture of him out with yet another girl, each more beautiful than the last. Then, yes then we have some magical moments out of the blue and I realize this God has fallen for me. And when we’ve been together it has felt a lot more than just a physical need being fulfilled. My heart flutters, my hea
CodyThis photoshoot with the team is such a drag. The guys horse around, and I just want it over and done with so I can get to see Immi. Every second for me is a second wasted. The need to be with her is driving me insane. I have to talk to her, I have to tell her we can do this, that it will be okay. The way she glared at me, the shock on her face, Man that cuts me like a knife to the heart.The last thing I wanted was for Immi to find out this way, like a bolt out of the blue. She didn’t need that; I didn’t need that, and we didn’t need it. Damnit.“Hey Cody. How you doing?” Lina asks, she’s our team photographer and has been for two seasons now. She licks her lips and flicks her ice blonde hair over her shoulder. It doesn’t go unnoticed that she’s pushing out her tits right now either. Cali standing next to me sniggers. I shove him.“Give it up, already.” I hiss at him. I look at Lina, well not so much at her as her camera for the photos. “Yeah, good thanks.” We had a thing, well
Imogen I can’t wait to be able to speak with Cody, I know he’s at the photoshoot right now and I’m betting that the girl I’ve seen him with before on his I* feed is shooting the pictures. Lennie, Linette, Lina. Something like that. I can’t recall, there were pictures of them together a few times, mostly at bars and clubs. Yes, I know he isn’t serious about her, Cody has never been serious about any of the girls he has hooked up with. So why is this bothering me? I’ll tell you why. Because I fucking like him, like seriously like him. It’s killing me inside knowing she is even close to him right now, taking pictures of him, looking at his face and his model body. I’m jealous. Okay, alright. Hands up. I fucking admit I am jealous. And I’m not even the green-eyed kind of girl. Never have been but with Cody, I feel like I could scratch out any girl’s eyes that ever dared look at him. I’ve run myself a bath, it’s not often you get a suite in a top hotel and one that comes with a deep, lux
CodyThese dinners are a drag but they’re important. It’s when the networking happens, when future players get noticed, when we get sponsorships not just as teams but also as individuals. My assistant has advised me that there are people here from Gucci, Prada and Nike all looking for the next face to sell their products and to be their brand ambassador.I’ve been seated on a table of ten, Atlas is already sitting down looking very smart in his Ralph Lauren tux. He is their face for men’s wear, and it looks pretty amazing on him. I can see with his glacial eyes, broad smile and strong jawline why they have chosen him. He nods as I take my seat, either side of me are sitting women. It’s the usual format, male, female.“Do you know where they’ll be seating Immi?” I ask him as I take my seat.“She’s been put on a different table with the photographers and the assistants.” He says and takes a sip of his water.“That’s crap. We should have her on your table, she’s your sister for fuck’s sa
Imogen He’s taking my breath away, literally I cannot breathe. My breath hitches and I inhale deeply. There is something about seeing Cody Brannigan in a tux. If it wasn’t bad enough when he came into my room earlier this is a whole different game. I didn’t think he was going to change, he said he wasn’t. Yet he has. The navy brings out his startling blue eyes that look as if they’re dancing as he feasts his eyes upon me. I feel a little self-conscious, not something that ordinarily happens to me. But the way he is looking at me, makes me feel like I’m pooling. His lips are slightly parted and it’s taking all my strength to avert my gaze to Atlas before he suspects something. “Hey little sis. Looking damn fine tonight. You scrub up well.” He extends his bent arm to me, and I hook mine through his. “Yeah, you’re looking okay too. You borrow the suit from someone?” I chuckle. “Cheeky mare. It’s a Ralphi.” I nod, of course it would be. How could I forget he is their brand ambassador
Cody Edelmann is such a dick I really want to punch him in the face right now. He specifically made a point that he was married and not interested in Immi, yet he can’t seem to take his eyes off her as we eat our meal. She steals glances at me when she can and it’s so fucking adorable. Atlas keeps giving me sideways glances, you know what? I actually think he suspects something. Finally, the meal is over and I’m ready to go back to my room and wait a few minutes before sneaking into Immi’s room, only she then announces she wants to dance. Of course, she does, I’ve been watching her, and she’s had several glasses of champagne already. “Do you want to dance with me, Cody?” She asks as she stands up. I take in her beautiful shape, the way her waist nips in and flows down to her hips that I just want to hold onto and pull into my groin so she can feel the full thickness of my rock-hard dick against her ass. “Sure, why not. One dance only. I’m ready to go to my room.” “Yeah, me too, Ma
Imogen “I’m heading to my room.” I tell Atlas who is now also standing. “I’ll walk you and make sure you get there in one piece and not get sidetracked by any one of these players who can’t keep their eyes off you.” “For real, Atlas? I’m more than capable of getting to my room on my own.” “Actually, I’m heading to bed too. How about I walk her up? We’re on the same floor. You’re on the floor beneath us.” Cody butts in. Thank God for that because my brother is playing the overbearing big brother card too heavily right now. “Suppose so.” Atlas shrugs his shoulders. We bid out goodnights to the others around the table. “I’ll walk with you guys too.” Calli says and Nolan follows after him. I swear those two should have been born twins. Where one is the other is right by him. It’s so cute and I sure hope that they never get separated if one or the other gets drafted. I wonder how the guys really feel that Atlas and Cody are being drafted. It must really suck. They’ve been playing tog
CodyI was supposed to go back to my room to sleep just in case Atlas had any designs of knocking for me this morning to go to the stadium together with the guys, only I fell asleep with Immi snuggled in my arms. We fit so perfectly together; her body is made solely for blending right into me. I look down at her radiant face as she sleeps peacefully and want to pinch myself for being so damn lucky.Seriously, me and Immi whoever would have thought it. All those years of picking on each other and being jerks when we could have this what I’ve found now, so much sooner. Or maybe it wasn’t our time back then. It makes me chuckle how she’d rile me up and then some, all the while now knowing she was crushing on me.And I was on her, but I never in my wildest dreams ever thought that a girl like Imogen would ever have a crush on me, let alone be interested in a guy who was always getting in to trouble and seeing every girl in school and putting it around.I hear he breathing, it’s slow and s