Jock Blocked

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by Pippa Grant


  And also possibly why she’s still single.

  I make a mental note to remember this the next time Pop tries to talk me into going on a date with a woman he’s hand-picked.

  Just because it’s been a couple—several—fine, many months since my last casual girlfriend doesn’t mean my goat and I need someone right now, and if I can persuade him to concentrate on Tillie Jean’s love life instead of mine, bonus.

  “Grady,” she says quietly.

  I start dipping the donuts in the Nutella glaze and lift a yes? brow at her.

  She holds out the flier for me to scan it.

  Duh-Nuts Grand Re-opening and Homecoming! it says proudly.

  But that’s not what makes my nuts suddenly retract.

  Nope.

  That’s the next line.

  Now I get why Tillie Jean’s lurking around at this hour of the day.

  My smile leaps off a cliff, I drop the donut in the glaze, and I feel like someone’s been shoving pudding up my ass.

  “Thinking they can be all oh, come to our second-rate town for a grand re-opening of a donut shop that made bad donuts, it’s so exciting!” Georgia mutters with a snort while she slams flour and sugar onto the smaller worktable. “Sarcasm assholes. Who gives a chocolate chip that some chick came home?”

  “So Duh-Nuts over in Sarcasm is re-opening. So what?” I try to keep my voice level and unafflicted while I fish the donut out of the glaze bowl, but I don’t quite make it, because I read that second line too, and I know who’s home.

  “Grady—” Tillie Jean starts, but Georgia plows her over.

  Verbally, I mean.

  “They’re trying to steal our customers. Right here. In our own town. Like they didn’t steal half our tourists last month with their freaking unicorn festival. We’ve had the pirate festival every second week of June since the dawn of time, and they think they can just suddenly put a competing festival the same week?”

  I let her rant while I watch Tillie Jean watching everything in the kitchen except me.

  “So she’s back for good?” I ask.

  My sister not looking at me is answer enough.

  Annika Williams is back. Back back.

  Annika Williams, who couldn’t bake her way out of a paper bag.

  Annika Williams, who spent high school counting the days until she could leave our little slice of the Blue Ridge Mountains behind, but still promised me once she’d come back one day and be my business manager when I opened the best bakery on this side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

  Annika Williams, who took my heart with her when she left.

  She’s back.

  Opening her own damn bakery.

  Trying to steal my customers.

  I thought I’d already felt everything I was ever going to feel about Annika Williams.

  Turns out, I was wrong.

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  Pippa Grant Book List

  The Girl Band Series

  Mister McHottie

  Stud in the Stacks

  Rockaway Bride

  The Hero and the Hacktivist

  The Thrusters Hockey Series

  The Pilot and the Puck-Up

  Royally Pucked

  Beauty and the Beefcake

  Charming as Puck

  I Pucking Love You - Coming soon

  The Bro Code Series

  Flirting with the Frenemy

  America’s Geekheart

  Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire

  Standalones

  Master Baker (Bro Code Spin-Off)

  Jock Blocked (Copper Valley Fireballs #1)

  Hot Heir (Royally Pucked Spin-Off)

  Exes and Ho Ho Hos

  The Bluewater Billionaires Series

  The Price of Scandal by Lucy Score

  The Mogul and the Muscle by Claire Kingsley

  Wild Open Hearts by Kathryn Nolan

  Crazy for Loving You by Pippa Grant

  Co-Written with Lili Valente

  Hosed

  Hammered

  Hitched

  Humbugged

  Coming Soon from Pippa Grant

  Truth or Heir

  The Princess and the Protector

  The SEAL and the Starlet

  Pippa Grant writing as Jamie Farrell:

  The Misfit Brides Series

  Blissed

  Matched

  Smittened

  Sugared

  Merried

  Spiced

  Unhitched

  The Officers’ Ex-Wives Club Series

  Her Rebel Heart

  Southern Fried Blues

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  About the Author

  Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.

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