Ghost Dance (Tulsa Thunderbirds Book 3) (44 page)

The goaltender scrambled and somehow blocked it with his left pad.

Drew raced in to gobble up the rebound, snapping off a wrist shot that hit the goalie right in the belly. It fell to the ice right in front of me, and I whacked at it a couple of times, to no avail. Then it was a full-on goal-mouth scramble, with every guy on the ice crashing in on the crease. We were trying to poke the puck in; they were trying to clear it out. Sticks and skates and bodies went flying.

The whistle finally blew as the refs lost sight of the puck.

But then something else was flying.

Blood.

I looked over and saw Drew holding a hand to his neck, which was gushing. Must have been a skate blade.

I froze. Panicked. Didn’t know what to do.

“Fuck,” Zee shouted. He tossed off his gloves, bent over Drew, and tried to cover the gaping wound.

“No.” Drew scrambled away as well as he could, with a wild look in his eye. “Seriously, Zee. Don’t touch me right now.”

“I’m not going to sit here and let you fucking bleed to death,” Zee said, following him. “Someone get the fucking trainers over here.”

I started to do that, glad to have some direction, when Drew shouted, “I said don’t touch me. I’m HIV positive,” right as Zee finally got his hand on the gash in Drew’s neck.

His blood kept spurting up through Zee’s fingers, staining everything in sight.

A few of the Blues players raced to the benches to help the trainers and EMTs out. They quickly got Drew loaded onto a gurney, with Zee still holding the wound.

Drew lost consciousness as they carted him off the ice, leaving a trail of blood behind.

Catherine Gayle is a
USA Today
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GHOST DANCE is Book 3 in the
Tulsa Thunderbirds
hockey romance series, a spin-off from
USA Today
bestselling author Catherine Gayle’s
Portland Storm
series.

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RITES OF PASSAGE will release on November 10, 2016.

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