Book Title: He Shoots, He Scores (Skate to Love Book 1)
Author: Tricia Owens
Publisher and Cover Artist: Tricia Owens
Genre/s: Sports M/M Romance
Length: 70 000 words
Release Date: June 16, 2020
Buy Links – Available on Kindle Unlimited
“There’s more than one way to score.”
Blurb
When superstar winger Neil Shannon is injured in the Stanley Cup Finals, he loses more than the hockey championships. With his confidence shot, his career begins to fall apart and an early retirement seems inevitable. Unwanted by his former team, Neil is traded to one that’s starting over. Even worse, he’s joined there by his biggest rival, the sexy Swede Adrian Magnusson. Adrian feels responsible for Neil’s fall from grace and is determined to revive his career, but Neil wants to stay far away from this Swedish temptation, or else he’ll lose the last thing of value he owns: his reputation.
Neil tightened his grip around his wrist. “We can’t. We’d be risking everything. Is this really worth it?”
After several seconds, Adrian released Neil’s chin, prompting more disappointment than Neil would ever let him know. Neil sighed. “At least you’re not as stupid as—”
Adrian surged forward and wrapped his hand behind Neil’s neck, pulling him forward. “Actually, I think maybe it is worth it.”
Neil resisted only for a second, for the time it took Adrian to crush the thread of space between their lips where reason still lived.
It wasn’t a slow, tentative kiss this time. It was all heat and wetness from the get-go. The moan came out before Neil could stop it, but it was met by Adrian’s approving groan and Neil couldn’t be embarrassed. He couldn’t be anything but hungry for Adrian’s lips, for his tongue, for the fingers that combed restlessly against the back of his neck. Adrian’s other hand came up to frame Neil’s face. He liked to hold Neil in place for his kisses, apparently, and that was more than alright with Neil. He felt possessed and wanted by this sexy man. Wanted, maybe, as much as Neil wanted him.
“This is so wrong,” Neil panted when he found a chance to speak. Fingers beneath his jaw tipped his head back and he went with it, gasping to the ceiling of the car as hot lips explored his throat. “We’ll be in so much trouble.”
“No, we won’t,” Adrian whispered against his skin. He licked a stripe across Neil’s Adam’s apple. “No one will ever find out. We’ll be careful.”
“By necking in a public park?”
“By not doing everything I want to do to you,” Adrian said roughly before dragging his teeth along Neil’s neck. “I’m showing restraint.”
“Your restraint sucks,” Neil panted, but his own hands came up to grip Adrian’s broad shoulders and pull him closer.
Adrian paused, breathing against Neil’s throat. “We could go back to your place…or mine.”
Neil shivered. His cock was onboard with it. He hadn’t had sex in months and now that the seal had been broken he was ravenous for it. He wanted to tear Adrian apart and make him love it.
But what the hell was Neil doing with his life and his career? He’d blown off his first game and the welcome dinner with his teammates. When had he become so selfish? Because giving in to the whirlwind that was Adrian Magnusson was all about self-indulgence at the cost of his future with the Kraken.
Have you forgotten who the hell you are? What you represent?
He changed his grip on Adrian’s shoulders, pushing instead of pulling. “We can’t. I mean it.”
Tricia Owens has been writing m/m fiction since 2000, after stumbling onto the term ‘slash’ and thinking it referred to horror stories. She is the author of the Sin City, A Pirate’s Life for Me, and Juxtapose City series, among several others. She lives in Las Vegas.
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