Parker (Face-Off Series Book 1) by Jillian Quinn

Author:Jillian Quinn [Quinn, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports Romance
Publisher: Penn Publishing
Published: 2017-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

Once our on-ice practice drills conclude, I head to the gym inside the Flyers training facility, per my agreement with Charlotte. I’m halfway into my routine, minding my own business, when Kane comes up from behind my bench and offers to spot me. Charlotte is right. I’m out of shape because benching two hundred pounds shouldn’t feel like such a chore, yet it does. I used to be able to press twice my weight, and now, I’m like some geriatric hockey player who’s on the last year of his contract, just here to kill time.

Kane laughs after my tenth rep and helps me set the bar on the rack. “Man, you look like shit. Were you out all night with a bunny?”

I’m out of breath, and this is so fucking sad to have my teammate call me out. “Nah, I was at home with Charlotte.”

His eyebrows rise in confusion. “Who?”

I sit up and take a sip from my water bottle. Then, I wipe my face with my towel and hang it around my neck. “You know, Charlotte, your agent.”

“You mean, Coach?” He balls his hand into a fist and bites down on it, making an obscene facial expression. “Damn, Parker, you’re tapping Coach? How did you manage that? Her panties are harder to get into than Fort Knox.” Then, he holds his hand up for me to smack it, but I ignore him. “I’ve tried just about everything with her, and nothing works. She always tells me that she has ‘rules,’” he says the last word by making air quotes with his hands.

Instead of acknowledging his stupidity with a high five, one that I haven’t even earned, I stand and shake my head. “I wish I had a shot with her. She has a boyfriend.”

“What are you talking about? No, she doesn’t.”

Kane walks with me to the next machine, and I stop and wait for one of our forwards to finish up with his workout. Kane stands beside me, his hands on his hips.

“Yeah, she’s dating that guy Jamie. She even brought him home with her the other night.”

Technically, he only stayed for ice cream and then left. He even made a point to tell me that Charlotte isn’t like other girls, something I’d already figured out, and engaged in a stare-down with me until he finished eating. It was awkward. I’m almost positive Charlotte picked up on the bad vibes he was sending in my direction, but she never let it affect her mood. Rico also added a nice little buffer between us. If he hadn’t been in the apartment, I’m not so sure Jamie would’ve held his tongue. Clearly, he has an issue with me staying with Charlotte, which I attributed to him being her overprotective boyfriend.

Kane shrugs and gives me a knowing look. “She played you then because Jamie is her best friend. They grew up together in foster care. There’s nothing sexual at all between them.”

I never once considered who had raised Charlotte because I assumed she’d had one decent family member agree to take her in after her parents’ deaths.

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