Seven

We had stayed like that for what seemed like hours before I finally scrambled off of him and stopped crushing him with my weight.

“I’m sorry, I overestimated myself,” I muttered. I tried to hide my face as I felt my face heat up, I didn’t want him to get the wrong idea.

“It’s okay, that’s uh, a good thing. You’re getting the hang of this a lot faster than I expected. Do you want to keep going?”

“Uh, no, I think I’m done for today. My ass can’t take the hits anymore.” I crawled on my hands and knees over to the side of the rink and used the wall to help myself up, then scooted along the side toward the door.

Ace busted a gut laughing as he watched me shuffle like a penguin off the ice, then glided with ease toward the door and stepped off the ice like it was nothing.

“Show off,” I grumbled.

I was relieved to sit down and be on stable ground once more, but I was shocked when Ace bent down to start untying my s