My Pucking Little Secret: A Fake Relationship, Opposites Attract, Hockey Romance by Leighton Grace

Author:Leighton Grace [Grace, Leighton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

Devon

I blink slowly as the plane flies over Los Angeles. To anyone else, this might seem like the opening scene in a movie, the ultra-exciting moment of arriving in the United States’ second-largest city, but I hate it.

I hate L.A. and everything in this stupid city. All the people seem fake, and I never have more problems with the paparazzi and fans who overstep their bounds than here. People taking pictures of me to post on social media, women screaming and leaping over the barricades outside the arenas—it’s like the city blurs the line between fan and celebrity, making everyone think they have a claim to my time, to photos of me, to touching me as I walk by.

Not that I’m a celebrity. But being a professional athlete comes with its fair share of fame. It’s something I wish I could leave behind, and L.A. just reminds me that I can’t.

Another round of retching comes from the back of the plane, and I close my eyes, breathing in through my nose and out through my mouth. Sammy has been throwing up since the plane took off. He claims it’s just motion sickness, but the guy is clearly under the weather. I’m just praying it’s food poisoning and not the flu because the last thing I need right now is to get sick.

I gather up my things as the plane starts to descend. Lola was supposed to be on this plane with me, but apparently woke up too late to make the flight and had to take a later one. That means I won’t see her until I’m at the game tonight.

Which is fine. It’s fine. It’s not like I was looking forward to seeing her. It’s not like having her with me would make Los Angeles a little more bearable.

It’s not like I can’t stop thinking about yesterday and the way it felt to have my arms around her, to be so close that I could smell her shampoo, her soap, and the perfume she must have applied before coming to spend time with me. As the plane hits the runway, I force myself not to think about how cute she had looked, both before and after the mud.

We’d gotten the fish and chips together and then sat in my SUV in the parking lot, talking long after our food was gone. After Lola discovered I’d purposefully picked ice fishing just to torture her, she’d gotten this dark look on her face, like she might be thinking up something awful for me.

But I can’t think of a single date with her that I wouldn’t enjoy.

Besides, the woman hardly knows me, and I’m not as easy to read as her. Just from looking at her, you can tell she doesn’t like to sit in one place for too long. That’s how I knew ice fishing would be torture for her. Lola is an open book, but I like to hold my cards close to my chest.

After the plane lands and the

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