Puck Around And Fall
I followed Knox out of the rink like a girl who definitely wasn’t already replaying his wink on loop in her head. The cold slapped me harder outside, wind whipping through the parking lot like it had a personal grudge against California transplants. My boots crunched on the salted sidewalk, and Knox—still half in pads, helmet tucked under one arm—looked like he’d just stepped off a magazine cover titled “Hot Guys Who Don’t Own Coats.”
“Truck’s this way,” he said, nodding toward a beat-up black pickup that screamed small-town hockey royalty. Stickers plastered the back window: EVERGREEN EAGLES, a cartoon bird flipping the bird (ironic), and one that read “I brake for slapshots.”