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In a world of clickbait headlines and high-stakes games, a fierce heroine and a playboy athlete find themselves entangled in a web of secrets and staged affection. As the lines between performance and passion fade, they must choose: protect their hearts, or fight for a love worth breaking the rules.
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Alls fair in love, hockey, and podcast syndication.
All I wanted was a tiny interview to secure my podcast syndication deal.
What I didnt expect? That my big break would hinge on Hunter Reedthe NHLs newest golden boy, full-time playboy, and the guy who mistook me for a puck bunny at Oakleys bar.
Hunter Reed is six-foot-two of attitude, muscle, and maddening charm. Hes the kind of clickbait fans obsess over and network execs would kill forand exactly the kind of man I swore Id never chase. Especially not after our less-than-stellar first encounter… and second… and third.
But when a Date-A-Player charity auction, his manipulative ex, and a very public kiss force us into a fake relationship, suddenly Im not just chasing the storyIm living it.
Now hes crashing on the other side of my queen-sized bed. Covering my living expenses. Washing my car in a Speedo in the middle of December. And somehow worming his way into my life one sarcastic grin at a time.
The more he shows upwith pre-game texts, surprise Post-its, and family dinners like hes always belongedthe harder it is to remember this is supposed to be pretend.
But with his ex-girlfriend circling, trade rumors heating up, my career hanging by a thread, and feelings I never planned for complicating everything, I have to choose:
Do I play it safe and report from the bleachers?
Or finally, get in the gamefor real?
I keep it clinical. I keep it clean.
And I definitely dont date playerswell… not anymore.
Not since my ex-husbanda pro football player with more ego than loyaltyleft me for a cheerleader and a faster life in Miami.
These days, I tape ankles, manage injuries, and ignore locker room charmespecially from flirty Finnish wingers named Aleksi Makelin, who somehow always finds me in a crowd.
Hes relentless in a way thats infuriatingly endearing. Always coming up with reasons to need a check-up. Always maneuvering his way beside me at team dinners. Alwaysalwayslooking at me like Im something more than the team doc.
So when the Hawkeyes’ private jet throws a mechanical code after an away game, the team scrambles for commercial flights to get home before playoffs. Of course, its just my luck that Aleksi and I get stuck together on the last outbound plane.
But when a passenger collapses mid-flight, everything shifts. The CDC boards the plane in full hazmat gear and initiates an emergency quarantine protocol. Aleksi, smooth as ever, tells them were marriedand just like that, were roomed together.
One room. One bed. No exits. Just adrenaline, proximity, and the kind of tension that finally breaks the moment I let him touch me.
I told myself it was quarantine adrenaline. One night. Nothing permanent.
But now Im late. And the test is positive.
Training camp is around the corner. Aleksis coming home.
And Ive got two new problems:
A pregnancy I didnt plan for.
And a text from the ex-husband Ive tried so hard to forget telling me hes training with the Seattle Sentinels… and wants to meet up.
I used to guard my heart like it was the only thing that mattered.
But now?
Im not just protecting myself.
Ive got a baby on the wayand no idea what to do next.
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