Play Mates by Kate Donovan

Author:Kate Donovan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: football, one night stand, sports romance, bad boys of football, secret affair
Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing

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After a leisurely two-hour drive, Jill and Jayce ended up at a quaint hotel north of Cannon Beach, where they booked a room with a giant four-poster bed, an ocean view and a fireplace.

Perfect.

They immediately put the bed through its paces, then followed a winding path to a semi-private beach, where they went for a brisk run, trying to keep ahead of the tide, which was coming in and threatening to engulf everything—and everyone—in its path. By then they were ravenous, and since Jill had been craving pepperoni pizza for some inexplicable reason, they had one delivered.

After that, she was back on the Paxton case, setting up a cozy office in the middle of the bed with files scattered around her while Jayce hung out on the redwood deck and watched a baseball game on his iPad.

And even though she was engrossed in the case, she couldn’t help peeking at him through the sliding glass door from time to time. Checking on him, actually, since the conversation with his big brother had clearly bothered him. Johnny was his hero. No doubt about that. So his disapproval, coupled with some dire predictions, had had the desired effect.

You’re supposed to be saving Pax from Death Row, she scolded herself.

Luckily, she was pretty sure Pax wouldn’t get the death penalty. He had committed a heinous act but probably not heinous enough under California law. Plus, he was relatively young, so that would weigh in his favor at the sentencing hearing, as would the fact that he had never been convicted or even arrested for a crime more serious than street racing until now.

In some ways, it was a classic tale of a boy from the wrong side of the tracks courting a pampered rich girl. Except for the ending, of course. But it had started out innocently when Caitlin’s father brought one of his vintage muscle cars into the shop where twenty-year-old Pax worked. Restoring such works of art was Pax’s passion. And when he laid eyes on Mr. Moore’s Firebird, he had fallen in love for the first time in his life. Then he had fallen in love a second time when Mr. Moore brought sixteen-year-old Caitlin to the shop when he picked up the gleaming vehicle.

Caitlin had fallen just as hard, to the point of sneaking off with the mechanic for a few minutes of wild kissing behind the shop. They had exchanged numbers, and in the coming weeks she had borrowed the Firebird from her dad so she and Pax could race it. She had also celebrated their victories by inviting him to the pool house on the Moore estate, where they had wildly acrobatic sex right under Mr. Moore’s nose.

The need for secrecy had been vital, since Pax would surely lose his job for seducing the daughter of the shop’s best customer. For that reason, and the fact that Caitlin was underage, Pax’s friends had begged him to break off the romance. And for very different reasons,

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