Playing for Kicks (Play Makers Book 5) by Kate Donovan

Author:Kate Donovan [Donovan, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beyond the Page
Published: 2016-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Sean’s longest recorded NFL field goal was sixty-two yards during the Super Bowl. It also happened to be the longest in the NFL to date. Of course, some guy would eventually break the record. And as he left the locker room on Monday afternoon, he knew he would be that guy.

Because he had launched a beauty today, and it wasn’t the first time. An even longer one had sailed over the crossbar in Eugene. Perfect launch, perfect loft, straight and true, like it wanted to go on forever. And way, way longer than sixty-two yards.

Now it had happened again.

No one had noticed, since Johnny was always working with the rookie receivers, the coach was always busting someone’s balls, and Bannerman, who should have noticed since he was right there, was too busy joking around. If the special-teams coach had been present he might have seen it. But Tanner was recuperating from surgery, meaning the offensive coordinator was doing double duty and too harried to notice anything.

No problem, Sean told himself cheerfully.

Kicking was a solitary endeavor embedded in a team sport. It had its downside, but at moments like this it was Sean’s favorite part of the gig. Sure, when he blew a kick it was all on him. But when the stars aligned?

That was on him, too.

“Hey, Deck,” the OC said from behind him. “Riga’s looking for you.”

Sean turned, surprised. He rarely spoke to Coach Riga, although the guy had been cordial—almost friendly—during their brief exchanges. “Did he say why?”

“Does he ever?” The coordinator shrugged. “He’s modifying the schedule for training camp so that’s probably it. Maybe you’ll catch a break and get extra time off.”

Sean caught the subtext—that as a kicker he didn’t need to see every inch of film or work out quite as intensively. It would have annoyed him if it weren’t technically true.

Plus, nothing annoyed him these days. Between Tess and this hot kicking streak, life was pretty damned great.

Heading to the head coach’s office, he flashed on the last time he had been summoned there. Not by Riga, but by their ex-coach Coz Cosner, who had raked him over the coals—again—for the accident with Bannerman, informing him in nasty detail of his plans to try out a couple of kickers to take Sean’s place.

An idea worth discussing, but premature at that point. Especially since Coz was a talentless hack who had ridden the coattails of the Triple Threat to the playoffs. Who was he to lord it over anyone about anything?

So you turn around and sleep with his wife? he mocked himself now. Then he winced. He had hooked up with Kerrie when he thought she was Melody. A single babe on the prowl. So he hadn’t set out to steal Coz’s wife. Although banging the guy’s sister-in-law wasn’t cool either.

“Let it go,” he advised himself under his breath as he reached Riga’s half-open door.

Knocking briskly, he stepped inside as the huge man looked up from some paperwork. Even seated, Riga inspired awe, but luckily, he just motioned to the chair in front of the desk.

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