Coasting by Elise Faber

Author:Elise Faber [Faber, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946140678
Publisher: Elise Faber

She sat in Devon’s office, the handsome former hockey player—and cover model—pouring over the printout of the digital copy of her contract. He was comparing it to the one Bernard had handed her, going line by line, turning page after page until he finally glanced back up at her.

“It’s the same,” he said. “Word for word identical.”

“And the clause on page eighteen?”

“You mean the clause that makes me want to murder whoever dared to put hands on you?”

“Devon,” she warned.

They’d dated—briefly—when he’d been an up-and-coming rookie NHLer and she’d been new on the national team. He was quite a few years older, and that wasn’t a surprise to her mental state at the time.

She’d been looking for a father figure.

Definitely not the right mindset for a newly eighteen-year-old girl, nor for a twenty-three-year-old man who was just starting his career. They’d been introduced through mutual friends, had gone on exactly two and a half dates—half, because they’d both realized it wasn’t working then had moved on to being what they should have started off as: friends.

Devon had gone off to do great things in the league, then off it, including dating a bevy of beautiful models and founding Prestige Media Group, before marrying the wonderful Becca. Throughout the years, they’d stayed in touch and when he’d heard about her name being in the running for the position with the Gold, he’d offered to be her agent and negotiate the deal.

She’d accepted without reservation.

Because even though she and Devon might have never worked out in the dating world, he was a good man. He’d called her after her devastating knee injury—which had happened on international broadcast during primetime—to offer her words of encouragement . . . and the name of a doctor who specialized in rehabbing professional athletes. And when rehabbing had failed, he’d continued calling, not letting her sink into what-should-have-beens and encouraging her to find a new path. Later, he’d helped her secure the opportunity of a lifetime when the occasion presented itself.

So, yeah, maybe they hadn’t had sexual sparks, but he’d still protected her and been there for her. And maybe, if she were admitting it only to herself, had still become a bit of a father figure anyway.

His face at that moment was certainly giving her intensely disapproving fatherly vibes.

Probably why she was hesitant to admit the next.

“I’m pregnant.”

A thundercloud crossed over his face. That was the only way she could think to describe it—eyes sparking like the precursor to lightning, a jaw that was tense as an impending tornado, words that clipped across the room like hail colliding with the roof of a car.

“I repeat. Who. Am. I. Going. To. Kill?”

“What exactly does that clause say?” she asked. She’d read the entire page eighteen and could barely make heads or tails of it. The language was filled with words like indemnifying and holding harmless and due diligence and while she knew what each of them meant individually, contract law wasn’t her specialty.

He growled.

Calle wasn’t cowed. Yes, they might be friends.

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