Chapter 12: Convenient Veterinarian
As
Billie’s injury becomes apparent, she leaves the ice, so chapter 12 starts with
the end of the game. Logan wants desperately to “deal with”
Seth-the-Misogynist, but realizes he should check on Billie first. Shane growls
that he’ll “have a few words” with the opposing team. While his gallantry is
appreciated, the text doesn’t say that Shane obtained any magic powers during
his stay in prison, so it’s fortunate he doesn’t have to take on the other team
single-handedly, as uninvited he’s followed by three other members of his own team.
Billie
needs stitches, but that’s okay, Logan’s brother is there to help. I have no
idea why Logan’s brother, Connor, was
there—was he watching the game or did someone call him? More importantly, Logan’s brother is a veterinarian. I
mean, I don’t see why a veterinarian couldn’t stitch up a human quite well, but
if Connor wasn’t already at the rink, then you’d think they would have taken
Billie to an emergency clinic as opposed to making a specialty call… to a
veterinarian. And while rinks do absolutely have first aid kits, I don’t really
think they have suture kits on hand. Do veterinarians carry suture kits with
them? (You don’t actually stitch up humans with ordinary needle and thread, y’know.)
But
we couldn’t have Billie leave the rink because then Logan can’t dash into the
locker room and find Billie wearing “boy shorts that did nothing but emphasize
the fact that, Billie-Jo Barker, definitely was not a boy” (191). Do NOT ask me
about those commas because they make absolutely no damn sense. She’s also
wearing only a sports bra.
Logan wasn’t sure if he was all hot
and bothered because he was pissed the Whalers had played so dirty, or the fact
that Billie stood a few feet away wearing next to nothing, with his brother’s
hands all over her (192).
Those
are two very different things that should have very different physiological
reactions, Logan. Unless being angry gets you in the mood for sex, in which
case you need therapy. You can get in line behind Seth-the-Sociopath. Especially
since Billie is so hot that she makes Logan feel like he should “circle the
room and piss in all the corners like a dog marking his territory” (194). No.
Just… no.
Billie
now has eight stitches, “perfectly sown.” Which means that she should be
sprouting in just a few weeks. (Sown =/= sewn). I mean, c’mon. If you’re going
to thank you editor, shouldn’t your editor have EDITED? After taking in the stitches,
Logan goes back to admiring Billie’s body, then remembering what it was like to
kiss her.
He thanked all that was holy that he
still had his hockey pants on because he was sporting one hell of a tent in
there… (197).
Despite
Logan going on all territorial, Connor is busy flirting with Billie and Logan
starts to think violent thoughts about how long his brother’s hand is on Billie’s
shoulder and how dare he have the gall to slide his fingers down her arm.
As
this little war of testosterone starts to break up, Connor reminds Logan that
they have to go to some fundraiser their mom is throwing the next day, and that
their mom expects him to bring Sabrina (the now ex-girlfriend. You remember her—the
one who flipped out that Logan offered to let Billie play on his team, and who
got dumped for saying the L-word and folding his towels.)
Apparently
Logan’s mother is a matchmaker who has told him that if he doesn’t have a child
by the time he is thirty-five, she will write him out of her will. Holy crap.
So Connor suggest that Logan should be nice to Sabrina and bring her along so
that their mother will be placated. But Logan can’t do that.
He’d run into Sabrina at the bank a
few days earlier and she’d practically drilled a hole through his hide with the
ice in her eyes as she’s (sic) stared dagger at him. …what the hell was up with that? He’d been nice
to Sabrina. He’d let her down easy. There’d been no cheating or horn-dogging.
It just wasn’t right (201).
Seriously?
You break up with someone, no matter how nicely, and you’re insulted when she’s
mad at you? Bloody hell.
Sabrina
is forgotten, however, as the locker room clears, leaving Logan and Billie
alone and they flirt. There’s staring and nonsense talk and Logan keeps looking
at Billie’s glistening lips and they lean closer and Logan is about to say
something that surely would have been brilliant… and Shane walks into the
locker room to ask Billie about her flirting with Connor.
Flirtation
denied. Sorry, Logan, you’ll have to deal with your “aching cock” (204) on your
own.
(This
is where the chapter ends, so I’m going to end it here too, particularly since
chapter thirteen seems to jump to the next night. Tune in next time to find out
… well, I don’t know what we’ll find out as I haven’t read any further!)
Ok, those are some impressively folded towels. Clearly, he was intimidated by her skill.
ReplyDeleteThis dude, man, this dude.
Also. What the *expletive deleted* is wrong with these characters? (Thinking about) pissing in a circle around her? Really?
Towel animals rock. I loved when I was on a cruise and each day we'd come back to our cabin (I had my pseudosiblings with me) and we'd find new ones. (Never lovey swans, thankfully, since it was me and siblings.) They do take skillz!
DeleteAs for the other, I guess it's supposed to seem manly? I think it's just gross, in multiple ways.