Sixteen
More Than a Thousand Feet
Hailey“Stay away from the window, Junebug! I mean it!”
Oh boy. I’m witnessing the impossible. Matt Eriksson…one of the biggest, toughest hockey players in the league, the man who can slay me with one crooked smile and bring me to my knees with one raspy-voiced word…is a wimp.
Okay, he’s not a wimp. But apparently my hockey god is human. As in, a human who’s deathly afraid of heights.
“But it’s so pretty!” Matt’s daughter whines. “I wanna see!”
“Me too!” Libby pipes up, dashing up to the huge glass window to join her twin.
Matt looks like he’s about to have a coronary. His face is paler than the fluffy white clouds that we’re pretty much at eye level with. Yeah, we’re in the clouds. This tower is frickin’ tall. More than a thousand feet, if the broch
