Title: Skate City
Series: Good Sports, Book Three
Author: Alex Winters
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 01/21/2025
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: Female/Female
Length: 22100
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, contemporary, lesbian, sports, skate shop, skateboarder
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Description
All Zoe Chamberlain wanted was to buy a skateboard for her one of her perpetually late employees. Was that so hard? It shouldn’t have been, yet the minute Zoe walks into Skate City to finish up her shopping, the fiery young redhead behind the counter captures her eye, and her heart, from their first interaction. Sarcastic, funny, witty, and bold, the counter girl—Astrid—makes quick work of Zoe’s resolve and charms her with every fiery retort and sly, leering glance. It’s not quite love at first sight, more like…love at first fight! And Zoe is here for every sexy minute of it!
Astrid Woolf never imagined herself falling for the curvy MILF who walked into Skate City that day, but Zoe was unlike any woman she’d ever met before, and she was desperate to see her again. So, she improvises a lot and fibs a little, convincing Zoe that not only are the boards she’s looking at buy one get one free, but that a complimentary skateboard lesson comes with every purchase. But it’s a limited time offer: one night only! Zoe hesitantly but inevitably agrees and, after work the following night, Astrid meets her behind the bakery Zoe owns to teach her how to skate. Only, Zoe has other plans in mind, and before the night is over, the teacher will become the student, learning just what it means to please another woman, and be pleased in return. It’s a night neither woman will ever forget, but one they’ll want to revisit, time and time again…
Skate City
Alex Winters © 2025
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Chapter One
Zoe frowned, plump lips downturned and moist in the midday light filtering in from the warehouse windows high above. Astrid hadn’t been kidding when she said she couldn’t control herself earlier. She honestly had never met anyone like Zoe before, and definitely not in lame Skate City. She wasn’t necessarily one for love at first sight, even lust at first sight, but with each glimpse of her comely new customer, Astrid was changing her formerly strong opinions about that particular concept.
“A boy,” Zoe admitted. “His name’s Clancy and he’s perpetually late. I offered to get him a bike from the thrift shop, pick him up, find him rides, but he’s prideful and stubborn. Finally, one of the other employees suggested a skateboard and his eyes lit up, so”—she shrugged—“here I am.”
Astrid slumped. “Wow, so you’re in here doing a good deed for your fellow man and I’m hitting on you? Could I feel more like shit? Would that even be humanly possible?”
Zoe snorted, a most masculine sound that definitely went against her feminine, curvy type. Astrid instinctively sensed that Zoe was a woman with many layers, each one more intricate and delicate than the next, layers she’d eagerly sign up for peeling away, one by savory one.
“Well, I wish I could say I was just doing a good deed, but honestly? Kid’s late every shift and I just need him to be on time from now on, so if a hundred-dollar investment in a fresh, new skateboard will help change that? I’m all for it.”
Astrid brightened. “Phew.”
“What phew?”
“I mean, now that you’re in here being a flagrant capitalist while exploiting the young working class, I guess I can go back to ogling you openly, guilt free?”
Zoe snorted again, less snottily this time. Instead, she favored Astrid with a slow gaze, one that matched her gently spreading smile and warm, generous eyes. “Will it get me a deal on the skateboard?”
Astrid glanced over Zoe’s shoulder at a corner of the store she rarely visited. But in this case? She’d make an exception. “On this board? No. But if you’ll just follow me over here, I have some two-for-one deals you might be interested in.”
Astrid began inching toward the clearance aisle next to the vending machines in the most neglected corner of the warehouse space. She expected Zoe to follow dutifully, but when she was a few steps away without hearing the sound of anyone following her, she paused to find her stubborn guest still lingering at the cash register, doubt creasing her pretty face. “What?”
Zoe held up the ridiculously flimsy board in her hand. “But I only need the one.”
Astrid stood, halfway across the skate shop, admiring Zoe as she continued to lean against the countertop at her back. Sleek and sexy, she radiated a cool, calm confidence Astrid could only bluff at, and the sensual curves beneath her casual work uniform oozed the subtle beauty of a knowledgeable older woman clearly comfortable in her own sexy skin.
Both traits were irresistible to the bored, lonely shopkeeper. As a result, she was willing to short herself on a little cash for the chance to spend more time with Zoe. “Yeah, but this way you get the same thing for free and, since I feel so bad about embarrassing you earlier, I’ll throw in a lesson too, how does that sound?”
Zoe still looked hesitant, but at least she’d taken a few steps closer in reply. “I think Clancy already knows how to skate, so…” Her face, along with her lean, toned arms, created a human question mark.
“Not for Clancy, silly,” Astrid teased, waving her closer as if she was a spider summoning one very sexy fly into her web. “For you.”
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Alex Winters is the pseudonym of a busy restaurant manager whose curious young staff would love nothing more than to follow him around the dining room reading his steamiest, most romantic passages aloud! When not writing romantic holiday stories of various heat levels, he enjoys long walks with his wife, scary movies, and smooth jazz. Visit him social media to see what stories are brewing up next!
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