The Brother and the Retired Player (New Hampshire Bears Novella Book 1)
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I’m quiet as I drive us back to his place. As is he. It’s not tension or uncomfortable silence. It’s us in the car, with the radio low.
Us.
Together.
Pulling into his driveway, my heart flutters a bit. I need to let out my feelings and tell him what I’m feeling. It’s time to step up.
We walk in together, and I take my bag up to the bedroom. Tim follows me. We both change into our pajama bottoms, and I sit on my side of the bed. He stretches out next to me and rest one of his arms behind his head and closes his eyes.
“Tired?” I ask, gently adjusting myself to rest my back against the headboard.
“I’ve had great sex, a day at work, and a filling meal. So, I’m a little tired, but in a good way.” He opens his beautiful green eyes, glancing at me. “Why?”
“I want to talk.”
“Okay.” He sits up and mimics my position. “I’m all ears.”
“I’ve had an epiphany of sorts.”
“And?”
“I’m falling in love with you. It’s insane, and I know it’s fast, but I am.” I say the words out loud, and I can’t take it back. There’s no delete button.
Tim seems to be taken aback. He’s either going to talk to me or tell me to get out of his house. “Do you think I’m not?”
My mouth drops, and I blink several times, trying to comprehend what he’s saying. “What?”
He smiles, sits up straighter, and looks me right in my eyes. “I’ve already fallen in love with you. I didn’t say it because I wanted you to make sure you were ready to say it.”
“Why?”
“Kian, you’ve been saying how fast this is going. I didn’t want to scare you off by telling you I was in love with you after the first time we had sex.” He takes my hand. “There’s something about you...it draws me to you...like a magnet.” His voice cracks. “I’ve never felt it with anyone, but I never want to stop feeling it with you.”
There have been two times I cried in my life: when my mother died and when Kyson was drafted. I can add this to the list.
“I love you, Kian. I want you in my life for a long, long time.”
I sniff and wipe the tears that have fallen from my cheeks. “No man in my life has ever said anything so sweet to me.”
Tim cups my face, pulling my lips to his. “I mean every single word.”
“I love you.” It easily rolls of my tongue and every cell of my body means it. “I want to be with you for a long, long time.”
That night we expressed our love with words and our bodies.
About the Author
Best Selling Author, Mary Smith, has been coming up with stories her whole life. She has written A HOCKEY TUTOR and THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BEARS SERIES along with numerous other titles, as well as co-authored THE PENALTY KILL TRILOGY, OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN SERIES, and THE NINTH INNINGS SERIES with Lindsay Paige. When not busy writing or rooting for the Chicago Blackhawks you can find her with her nose stuck in her Kindle.
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Books By Author:
The Ice Series (Adult Sports Romance trilogy):
Melting Away the Ice
Breaking the Ice
Shattering the Ice
Thawing the Ice (A Novella)
A Hockey Tutor (New Adult Sports Romance)
Dart and Dash (New Adult Sports Romance)
Always Forever (New Adult Rocker Romance)
DREAM (Adult Romance Suspense)
The Matched Trilogy (Paranormal Romance Trilogy):
A Royal’s Love
A Protector’s Second Chance
A Controller’s Destiny
New Hampshire Bears Series (Adult Sports Romance)
The Muse and the Fairy Tale
The Workaholic and the Realist
The Hero and the Fat Girl
The Arrangement
The Coach and the Secret
The Captain and the Broken Girl
The Backup and the Baby
The Player and the Tattoo Artist (Coming Summer 2017)
The Goalie and the Best Friend’s Sister (Coming Fall 2017)
Books with author Lindsay Paige:
A Penalty Kill Trilogy (New Adult Sports Romance):
Breakaway
Off the Ice
Game Over
Our First Christmas (A Novella)
Oh Captain, My Captain Series (Adult Sports Romance)
Looking for You
A Hockey Player’s Proposal
Finding Carson Lee
Let’s Be Crazy
Their New Beginning
You and Me, Forever
Tainted
The Ninth Inning Series (Adult Sports Romance)
Felix
Blake
Hector
Trent
Jordan
Colby
Roman
Spencer
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