“Um, yeah. I’d like a water, but I can get it myself.” Kassie tried to head to the kitchen before Luc gently stopped her.
“Sweets, sit down. Make yourself comfortable. I’ll be right back with water.”
Already on his way to the kitchen, he looked over his shoulder. “Oh, and now you can help yourself to the chocolate bars,” he added with a laugh. “You hungry?” Luc called from the refrigerator.
“No, not really.”
Carrying the bottled water to the living room, he admired her sitting there on his couch. She looked so adorable. Her Halloween getup added to her cuteness, but that was only like the cherry on top of a sundae. This was where she belonged, on his couch, in his living room. He had everything he’d ever wanted in her.
With her agreeing to come to the game tomorrow, now was the perfect time to give her the gift he had for her. He wanted to show her that she really was his one and only. And, in a selfish kind of way, he wanted everyone to know she was his, too.
Sitting down beside her, he flashed a sexy smirk.
“What’s that smile for?” Kassie asked with a giggle, pink filling her cheeks.
“You’re just so beautiful, I can’t help it.” Luc slid his arm around her and pulled her into a soft kiss. He needed to control himself, because he still needed to give her the gift. Pulling away before things went too far, he added, “I’d like you to wear this to the game. Only if you want to, that is.” Luc took a box out from under the end table.
“What is it?” Kassie looked at the gift box that had been placed in front of her.
“Open it and see,” he urged, pushing the box closer to her.
Kassie looked at the box again before slowly opening it. A small smile crossed her face when she saw that it was a Renegades jersey. “Oh. Nice. Thanks. I needed a new jersey.”
“Sweets, take it out and look at it.”
She needed to look at the whole jersey for the full effect. In the box, all she could see was the logo on the chest. It wasn’t just any Renegades sweater.
Kassie pulled the whole jersey out and held it up. She took a minute to turn it around and look it over. It had his number and name on the back. She smirked at the fact that it was his jersey. Then she saw what was in the box underneath it.
“Oh!” Her face lit up when she pulled out a light pink-and-gray baseball cap, and a light pink woman’s t-shirt with gray sparkling writing. “For me, really?”
“Yep.” Luc nodded and basked in her delight. “Hailee and Ali put these things together for the wives and girlfriends. They all have the hat and the shirts. I think they were talking about making jackets this season, too. I’m sure Ali will tell you all about them.”
The hat and the t-shirt said Marcella’s Girl. The back of the shirt said Renegades Style with Luc’s number, and the back of the hat had the same.
“The other girls have these? The wives and girlfriends?”
“Yes.”
She thought for a moment, staring at the hat and t-shirt. She had a muted smile on her face, as if she was afraid to get too excited. “So… are you saying that I’m a WAG now?”
Luc shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. “You’re my girlfriend, so sure you are. That’s not all. We have the team Halloween party coming up this weekend. I hoped you’d be my date?”
“Um, isn’t that in a few days?” Kassie’s face went from thrilled to pure panic.
“Yes, it’s on Friday.” He was missing the problem.
“Like three days from now, Friday?”
“Um, yeah. Do you not want to go? I mean, if you don’t, that’s okay too… I guess.” He hadn’t even considered that she wouldn’t want to go.
“No! I mean, yes! Luc, I would love to go with you, but it’s in three days.”
Luc was still missing the reason for her panic. Then something dawned on him. “Oh, yeah. It is in three days. And if you’re willing to be my date, I’ve already talked with Sam and Trina’s costume girl, or designer, or whatever they call her. She has a few different costumes set aside for us, if you agree to go with me, that is.”
“They have a costume girl? For Halloween?”
“Yeah. Some of these guys take their Halloween costumes very seriously. A few of them try to outdo one another each year. Me, I like to hang back and watch it all unfold. So, our costume ideas aren’t as crazy as some of theirs. Unless you want them to be. Tyler is pretty laid back with his, too. Like me, he’d rather blend into the background. But Dom, a few years ago, his makeup alone took three hours! Dude is a nut.” Luc had been dominating the conversation while Kassie clutched her Renegades jersey. He hadn’t even let her say anything. “What do you say?”
“I say, I think we’d better take a look at those costumes.”
A breath of relief escaped his lungs. He must’ve been holding it, waiting for her answer. “Thank god.”
“I’m sorry, did you think I didn’t want to go?”
“Well, yeah. I thought you didn’t want to go with me.” Which was absolutely stupid, seeing that he knew how she felt about him. That should’ve been proof enough to him of how much he was invested in this girl.
“Oh, no! C’mere.” Kassie dropped the jersey onto the couch and pulled him close, so her soft lips brushed over his. “I’ve avoided all this for so long; I never imagined I’d be asked to be part of any of it. The team Halloween party. This is big. It’s just that a girl needs time to prepare for something as big as that. But it seems like you already took care of all that.”
His heart rate went back to normal, and he kissed her lips again. “I did. I’d do anything for you.”
Kassie sat back so she could look at him, and he couldn’t easily get to her lips again. She tilted her head and batted her eyelashes. “Do you have pictures of the costumes that I can look at?”
Damn, this girl is cute. “I do.” Luc grabbed his cell phone and pulled up the pictures Trina had sent him. “Whichever one you like is the one we’ll go with. You just need to let Jackie know.”
“I choose?”
“Yep. I’ll wear whatever you pick. Do you like any of them?”
“Yeah. She set aside some really fun ones. She must really want to see you in tights. It’s hard to choose. I like this Suicide Squad couple: The Joker and Harley, Superman and Supergirl, and the Friday the Thirteenth ones.” She tapped her finger on her lip. “You sure I get to choose?”
Luc nodded. “Whichever couple outfit you like, just say the word.”