“I’ll be right there,” I assure him.

Heath brushes by me, the heat of his body licking flames up my arm and grabs two beers from the fridge. He hands one to me. “So, I hear you’re sleeping with me this weekend.”

“Umm… what?”

“I hear you’re sleeping at our place this weekend.” He leans a hip against the counter and pops the top off the beer.

“Right. Yeah. My roommate’s boyfriend is in town for the weekend.”

“Lucky for us.”

“I doubt you guys will even know I’m here.”

“One chick among twenty-seven guys? Plus, it’s you. You’re kind of hard to miss.” His eyes drop to my mouth.

“One chick? Please. Actually, I’m surprised there aren’t girls over already. Are you hiding an orgy in your room?”

He laughs. It’s a deep, playful tone that lights up my insides. “I wish.” He pushes off the counter. “Your brother has banned girls from the apartment tonight.”

“What? Why?” That doesn’t sound like Adam.

“Team building or some shit. Just you and the team, Ginny Scott.”

“No. Absolutely not. Adam said he was going to introduce me to people, not hang with his bros.”

With a light chuckle, he lifts his beer and takes a drink making me realize I haven’t touched mine.

“I’m going to kill him.”

“Well, that I want to see. I better get dressed.” He winks and heads down the hall on the opposite side of the apartment from Adam’s room. I’m finally able to take a breath again. Holy mother of all that is good, he’s a lot.

I head outside and take a seat next to Adam. “No girls? What the hell? I thought you wanted to introduce me to people.”

He looks conflicted on how to respond. “I will. I am.” He motions around the party.

“People besides your teammates, Adam.” I flail my hands around. “Girls.”

“Yeah, let’s get some girls over here,” someone says and Adam scowls at them over my head and then drops his gaze back to me.

“Please?” I ask quieter. “I’m sure your teammates are great, but I don’t want to hang with a bunch of dudes all weekend.”

“Shit, Ginny, I didn’t even think about Bryan and what it might be like to be around a bunch of guys…” He rubs at the back of his neck. “All right, yeah, let’s have a real party.”

That wasn’t exactly what I’d meant by not wanting to hang out with a bunch of dudes, but if it gets girls over here, I will keep my mouth shut and let him think it’s my sad, I hate all of mankind broken heart speaking.

“On it,” Maverick says and pulls out his phone.

5

HEATH