Changes

Max and I went back to his place after we left the bar. The car ride was silent, both of us knew what we wanted and it was clearly tense. He kept rubbing the back of his neck and I must have shifted in my seat twenty times. He finally parked and we jumped out and darted towards the house.

Claude groaned when we walked in and Wayne and Brayden cracked up. “Back to christen the living room?” Claude asked.

“Actually, we were thinking the front lawn. Don’t look outside in like twenty minutes ok. Danny promised me he would not call the cops.” Max replied. I just smiled at them.

I whispered into his ear “Can we have a replay of earlier?” It distracted him from the boys and he flew up the steps, me following closely behind. I heard the click of the lock behind me as we entered his room. It was gonna be a long night.

Three rounds and two hours later, I got into the shower, my body sore from all the rough play. Max was sleeping soundly across the bed. I was bruised and hurting but still in ecstasy. That man was amazing. He made my body scream with pleasure every chance he got.

I took the hottest shower I could, then pulled a t-shirt from his closet and threw it on, setting the alarm for 8 o’clock. I knew he had practice at some point tomorrow and I didn’t want him to oversleep on my account. I woke up to him resting his head on my stomach. I looked at the clock and it was only seven o’clock. “What are you doing up?” I asked and he grinned.

“Got a good night’s rest thanks to someone. Come on, I’m hungry, let’s go get something to eat. You coming to practice with me? ” I mumbled ok. I got up and grabbed my clothes from the bag I packed yesterday.

I quickly threw on jeans and a plain black fitted shirt and grabbed a hoodie from his collection on the floor. “Max you have to pick these up eventually or you will be swimming through the pile.

We hit the diner close to his house. He ordered the biggest breakfast I have ever seen. I opted for cream chipped beef over wheat toast. He spent half the breakfast trying to eat mine because he decided it looked good. I finally switched with him and ate some of his egg white omelet which was delicious.

We ended up at practice an hour early, just sitting there talking before he had to go in and get dressed. I sat indian style on the bleachers listening intently to him tell me more about his mom and brothers. “So we should definitely make a trip up there. Do you go to your dad’s for Christmas” he asked.

“Of course, I always spend it with him. My sister don’t so someone has to.”

He grinned. “Well maybe we can visit my mom and your dad together then?” he asked shyly.

I grabbed his hand. “Sounds good Maxime, sounds really nice.”

We sat in silence for a few more minutes until Danny entered the rink. “Ok I’ll see you after, I got to go get dressed.”

There was quite a crowd by the time the guys came onto the ice. Lavy looked livid and the press took quick note of how hard he was working the guys. He made people do suicides when they messed up a drill. Max had a good practice. He looked very determined. They finally left the ice after eighty grueling minutes. There were only a few people left sitting around. After an hour I got restless and walked outside.

He came out about forty minutes later. “So sorry, he decided to hold everyone while he ranted about this weekend’s activities.”

I just hugged him. “It’s all good Maxime. No big deal. I didn’t have any plans for today.” We stood for a while him leaning on me.

I could tell he was exhausted. “Come on, we will go take a nap and then I will hit the market and cook dinner.”

After a two hour nap, Max was still sleeping. I took his keys and ran to the market buying tons of food. When I got back to his house, Claude was up in the living room. “What are you doing?” he asked as I put a bag in the entryway.

“Cooking dinner silly, now help me get my bags.”

He raced out the front door. “This is great, it is like having another Raina around.” I just laughed.

“Raina used to cook for you?”

Claude smiled. “Yep, I lived with Danny before they got married, when she came into the picture, I gained ten pounds. She is a really good cook, especially Italian food.”

I had to laugh, “Ok, well mine better turn out good then.” I had planned on making wedding soup and veal parmigiana with pasta and some homemade bruschetta. “So who else is coming over tonight.”

I asked Claude, unsure of who I was cooking for. “Well, Wayne, Brayden and Reemer are a definite. I think that is it.”

Max came stumbling down the steps a few minutes later. “Wow, enough food to feed an army Cal?” he said, looking through the bags. I had just started on the sauce.

“We need wine for all of this.” Max said and Claude agreed. A call was place to Wayne to pick up some on his way over. After an hour, I had everything cooking including the low-fat cheesecake I was making. I didn’t cook often, but I went all out when I did and I loved to cook. Everything was set to be ready at seven o’clock.

I made Max set the table that looked like it hadn’t been used since Raina moved out. We sat down like a family and ate dinner together, laughing and joking. I got compliments on the food from the guys. I had a lot of fun. They kept making fun of Max and I, but I just laughed it off. “I can’t help it if he is really good at what he does.” I said to Reemer as I threw a piece of bread at him. Max high-fived Claude and the entire table erupted in laughter.

“I don’t know. I think I heard more of him than you last night Cal.” Claude said and Max turned red.

“What can I say, I am vocal, she is good.” Max said and stuck his tongue out at me. Everyone laughed even harder.

After dinner I made him drop me off at my place. I had work the next day early. I was working the seven to three shift. We stood outside for a while his arms wrapped around me. “So you are coming tomorrow right? First home game. I’ll leave tickets for you, bring a friend from work.” I agreed and he reminded me to check my schedule for work this weekend and try to switch it around so I had off Saturday night and Sunday morning. His friends from Pittsburgh were coming in and apparently Dani and Andrej, Raina and Danny were all going out.

I let him know I would and he kissed me goodnight and left. I laid out my clothes for the next day and climbed into bed. It felt so empty sleeping by myself and I shook my head. I swore I wasn’t going to get that invested in a relationship with him and here I was already head over heels in love with the guy who was dubbed a player who would never settle down.

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