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Rule #1: Never Accidentally Marry Your Teammate by Portia Blake
Hockey Rules, Book 1
I might have a reputation for partying, but I’ve outdone myself. After drunkenly proposing to my new teammate, Noah, during a wild night out in Vegas, I wake up with a ring on my finger, a husband by my side, and a colossal PR nightmare.
The team’s management is furious, and the only way to salvage our careers is to pretend the marriage was intentional. Noah plays along like a pro, and I move him into my Boston penthouse. He just got called up from the AHL, and I might cost him everything.
We’re stuck together for at least a year, navigating public appearances and hockey playing and living together. In fact, this so doesn’t feel like pretend. But obviously, that’s impossible: we’re both straight. Aren’t we?
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“I don’t want you to be sent back to the AHL.”
I blink. “You’d rather we what…pretend to be married?”
“Yes. Move into my penthouse.”
I nod. “Yeah. If you want me too—”
“I do,” Finn says, his voice desperate. “It’s spacious. We don’t have to see much of each other. I mean, no one has to know what happens there.”
I ponder his words. They don’t sit well in my stomach. “I like hanging out with you.”
A slow smile spreads over Finn’s flushed face. God, the man is handsome.
I stifle an odd urge to trace the swell of his cheeks with my fingers.
“You want to tell everyone we got married on purpose?” I ask, wondering if somehow, I’ve gotten this wrong.
“It’s the only way, Noah. Trust me.”
“I trust you.”
His eyes soften. “I know.”
“So we tell them that we fell in…” My voice trails, but he knows what I was going to say.
“Love.” The word isn’t said particularly loudly, but it booms through the elliptical room all the same, bouncing from machine to machine. “Yes. That’s what we do.”
“We just met, Finn.”
“So we fell fast. We saw each other, and I couldn’t stop thinking about you.”
“And I couldn’t stop thinking about you…” I murmur.
Heat blazes through my body, because of course he’s telling me our cover story, and of course I shouldn’t be saying something like that.
“In a year we can get a divorce.”
“Divorces happen,” I say, and something hurts my chest.
I guess contemplating divorces makes anyone sad.
Footsteps sound, and Finn’s eyes widen.
“Finn! Noah!” Coach’s voice barrels through the air. “Where are you?”
“We have to sell this,” Finn says, his voice desperate.
And so I kiss him.
Finn
Noah flings himself into my arms, and I wrap my arms around him instinctively, inhaling his clean scent. His back is muscular, and I trail my hand from muscular plane to muscular plane, and I raise my chin slightly so that he can have the best angle as he explores me with his mouth.
The kiss is hot.
The kiss isn’t supposed to be hot.
Maybe we’re both excellent actors. Maybe waving to the audience during hockey games trained us for more than we thought.
His hands find my hair, and he seems to enjoy moving his fingers through my slightly-too long cut. His mouth is more aggressive than any girl I’ve kissed, but I guess my kisses are also more aggressive. He sucks on my tongue, sucks on my lips, and my cock expands.
The door opens.
“Finn?” Coach’s voice is astonished, and I stifle a smile.
Noah acted perfectly.
Noah stops the kiss, and I press my lips to keep from whimpering. His hard chest no longer presses against me, and his hands no longer play with my hair.
Coach is supposed to think we’re madly in love, but I don’t want Noah to think that. I mean, I’m the one who proposed. I remember that much. I’m the one who slid my ring on his finger. I don’t want Noah to think I’m some creepy guy who is so desperate to have him around that I got him drunk, for the second time, and married him when he was too tipsy to understand what he was doing.
A swerve of guilt courses through me, but now is not the time to consider that.
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Hockey Rules 0.5: Never Crush On The Captain
The unwritten rule in hockey? Never crush on the captain.
Too bad I’m failing at that.
Single dad Evan McAllister is our adored team captain, attractive, and my all-around amazing former best friend. Oh, he’s straight too. That’s less of a positive for me. I’ve been distancing myself to smother my feelings, but that’s only confused him and totally hasn’t worked.
When a concussion leaves Evan needing care, I step in to help him and his daughter Stella. Evan’s not thrilled with me barging back into his life after I ghosted him, and the more we’re thrust into intimate circumstances, the harder it is for me to keep from blurting my secret.
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About the Author:
Portia Blake lived in Boston for many years and still thinks it’s the most beautiful city in the world. When she’s not off gallivanting from scenic location to scenic location, you’ll find her curled up with a good MM romance. She is a USA Today bestselling author under another name.
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