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Puzzle Box

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POV: Cooper

The office of one honest, handsome, humble, and sometimes perverted coach, Cooper Daniel, was a bit of a tip. A tall jagged pile of paperwork, which sat to one side of his large office desk, had started to develop a mean disposition. He'd been meaning to get to it. Rather, he'd meant to have his assistants take care of it. That was, after all, what he'd hired them to do.

He pulled the drawer to his desk open and watched as the slanted skyscraper of paperwork teetered like jelly. He
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  • Pucking Around with Fate   Extra Set Of Hands

    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerHe ducked his head back under the water and closed defiant eyes. He jerked when something thumped against the side of his foot. Khyle wiped his eyes free of the remnants of soap and water and looked down. A shampoo bottle.His body and brain seemed to be at war, once fighting as kin, now traitors on two separate sides. And once again, without thinking, he looked over at the enforcer.The water sluiced across the smooth, extensive terrain of well-defined sections of muscles. The man attached to them was back to lathering and rinsing, blithely unaware as he lifted one arm and rubbed conditioner suds up his side and across his armpit.For softness? Khyle snorted. Prima donna. But it reminded Khyle that they both smelled, a complicated mix of body heat and greasy sweat, cold arena air and damp skin. They stunk. Except that Gunner didn't really. Khyle had gotten a nose-full of him while being bear hugged across the room and dumped into the waiting showers. And t

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Don't Look

    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerAt least they were black.They clung to his skin like glue, everything underneath modified and magnified, tight wet material like fast groping hands against his skin. On reflex, he caught the bar of soap that Gunner tossed at him."Here."Khyle muttered something underneath his breath, but only scowled and turned away. There was no point in fighting about it now. He was wet and stuck. He peeled his black workout pants down, palming the wall for balance as he struggled to roll the sodden pants past his ankles. He tossed them to the side, and they collapsed in a dark, wet lump where they landed with a squelch.He wet his hair first, tipping his head forward, using the soap Gunner had tossed him. It would do. No way in hell was he asking to borrow Gunner's shampoo. That would involve talking, and maybe looking.The water turned hot, the air around them muggy. He held his face outside the spray as he lathered his body and underarms. The water ran down over his

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Puzzle Box

    POV: CooperThe office of one honest, handsome, humble, and sometimes perverted coach, Cooper Daniel, was a bit of a tip. A tall jagged pile of paperwork, which sat to one side of his large office desk, had started to develop a mean disposition. He'd been meaning to get to it. Rather, he'd meant to have his assistants take care of it. That was, after all, what he'd hired them to do.He pulled the drawer to his desk open and watched as the slanted skyscraper of paperwork teetered like jelly. He smiled. Just about ready.A computer screen bathed one side of the desk in a black and white glow. He glanced again at the small article, the blurb about a hockey player who had lost a parent. Just over a year ago now, only a month before Christmas. There were no details. The passing of Cooper's former acquaintance had been kept close to home. Cooper was sorry he hadn't been able to attend the funeral. Though he didn't know him well, he knew he'd been a loving father, and a kind and generous man

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Relationship

    POV: GunnerGunner glided over to their bench panting for breath. He feigned thirst, but it was oxygen that was currently top of his list of needs. Cooper hadn't run him into the ground, but he was coming close.Unbelievable. A few hours with this character and Gunner had gained a small insight into his puck handling and shooting skills that neither his previous nor current coach had been able to offer. Khyle's old coach seemed to read him and pinpoint his weakness like it was obvious to any idiot on the street.And if it weren't for the fact that it was working so well, Gunner would find it exceedingly creepy. After several hours, with a few breaks in between at Khyle's pointed lecturing that Gunner needed to sit his ass down for a minute, Gunner had managed to improve his scoring on Cooper from absolute zero to a solid best of five.Just over half of his shots going in on average was unarguably better, but Gunner had groused without any whiff of shame whatsoever that it still wasn't

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Breaks

    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerKhyle finally found his voice."Gun-""No, Khyle," Cooper said pleasantly, "This is up to Gunner." Even as the bluenet snorted heated air against his mask like an enraged bull and twisted away in an embattled effort to leave yet again. "You cannot teach a man what he thinks he already knows."Gunner's entire body went rigid, and he turned slowly, bringing into view a dangerous curl of his lip, and sharp fangs that glinted under the arena's bright lights. The expression on his face said he'd had about enough of squaring off with Cooper. And as Khyle knew, that usually meant trouble.Not a single thing in the empty arena dared move. The air between them nearly blistering from the enforcer's intensity. Remember what Khyle had said before? Well, now Khyle just hoped Gunner wasn't contemplating Cooper's swift demise, that he was instead coming to some sort of conclusion that wouldn't involve violence, or charges."You're on, old man." Gunner's challenge was a lo

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Demons

    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerBreak accomplished, coach and student were back at their positions, locked once again in a stubborn sort of combat, their short talk having no particular noticeable effect on the enforcer's puck handling skills thus far, as shot after shot failed to make it past the invisible barrier that Cooper seemed to have conjured. As expected by now, the shots from Cooper came just as fast and as hard as the enforcer's. Chirpy, cheap, and fast."Come now." The puck snagged up high in his glove."That one was so close." It bounced off his goal pad."The tension is mounting." He caught it between bent knees."My defense is riddled with holes. Shall I point them out for you?" He batted it away with his stick."Do you even want to put the puck in the net?" A sniper-like slap shot followed."I wonder, if you score, will it not be deserved?" The next puck had a wobble to it as it skipped across the frozen arena floor."Perhaps, the only thing you really want... is to erase

  • Pucking Around with Fate   White Knuckle It

    POV: GunnerHe turned left, making no effort to turn on the hall light. He knew his way around this place fine in the dark. The floors were clean. He wasn't going to stub his toes on anything.And he sure as hell didn't believe in monsters and things that went bump in the night. The world was a sca

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Eye Candy

    POV: Khyle"Yeah, but then I bite even harder."Khyle jumped in his seat, the guttural growl behind him as effective as a shotgun. He twisted around to face his teammate, and any response he may have had vanished.He thought he was right behind him. How did he do that? He was still halfway across t

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Relieved and Disappointed

    POV: KhyleGunner winced as he came to an abrupt stop at the bottom of the steps and watched Khyle retreat, eyes shielded from the too-bright sun by the flat of his hand.He didn't know what had caused the orangette to grow a vagina like that, but he knew he needed to back off. He'd probably done e

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Room Twenty-One

    POV: KhyleHe woke up to the sun in his face.Not gently. Not the gradual brightening of a room coming to life around a sleeping person. The full, direct, unambiguous commitment of mid-morning light that had been working its way across his bed for hours and had finally arrived at his face with the

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