Hearts in Overtime: A Bad Boy Sports Romance by Swan Daphne

Author:Swan, Daphne [Swan, Daphne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-07-28T07:00:00+00:00

EPILOGUE

The moment I step into the luxury box, the girls are all over me like a flock of starving vultures.

“Let’s see it!” Brandi Patterson exclaims.

“Show us that rock!” squeals Karen Jones.

I gladly thrust my arm out so they can take a look at the engagement ring Ryan gave me. They ooh and aah over it, and who can blame them? To be honest, I spend a lot of time oohing and aahing over it myself.

“Wow, it’s gorgeous,” Annette Washington says. “Is it three carats?”

“It sure is. Good eye, Annette!”

“Thanks, hon.” With a smile, she reaches over to squeeze my shoulder.

I love the teammates’ wives and girlfriends. When I first met them last September at the opening game, I was expecting them to be a bunch of cold, calculating material girls. That’s the impression I got of them from Ryan, so that’s what I expected to encounter. I’m happy to say that wasn’t the case at all. Sure, some of them are a little out of touch with the hard truths of reality at times, and the girls do love their designer duds (and who doesn’t?) but all in all, they’ve been super friendly and welcoming.

Ryan has acknowledged that he may be guilty of projecting his issues with his mother onto other women. I want him to talk to a therapist about it, and he’s said he’ll think about it. I’m fine with this. Even the fact that he acknowledged the problem is a step in the right direction.

Anyway…

What a year it’s been!

After that bastard Todd Weston exposed Ryan’s past, things were shaky for a while there. The public sympathy was overflowing, which was lovely, really, but it had Ryan worrying about his public image and rightfully so. Thankfully Johnny cleared it all up with a few strategically written press releases, and I like to think I had a hand in restoring my man’s public image with the way I handled his biography.

Johnny, who loves Ryan almost as much as I do, took great pleasure in creating a smear campaign, exposing Todd Weston as the conniving scumbag that he is. Needless to say, Todd was thrown out of the league, and last I heard, he was boozing his way around Europe on his family’s money.

After the book came out, I really think the image of Ryan that people had in mind shifted from, “poor, unfortunate victim” to “strong, determined survivor.” In any case, the pitying looks got less and less frequent—and they have since died out, thank goodness. And I might add that the book hit all the bestseller charts. New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Amazon, you name it. It may not have been my masterpiece, but it was still pretty freakin’ awesome to see my work way up there on those lists with the best of the best.

And speaking of my masterpiece…

Guess who got a publishing deal for her literary work? As it turns out, Bruce Maddox is good friends with one of the top guys at a Big Five publisher and the whole thing came as an unexpected surprise.

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