Playing with Forever (Sydney Smoke Rugby) by Andrews Amy

Author:Andrews, Amy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Brazen, Amy Andrews, rugby, sports, sports romance, contemporary, contemporary romance, romance, Sydney, Coogee beach, Henley Stadium, Autumn, Australia, Country boy, beach, Great Dane, good guy, fling
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Ryder’s fingers stopped abruptly. The heavy weight of satisfaction evaporated from his bones. She was leaving? The country?

Talk about a buzzkill.

Something akin to panic needled his chest and that alarmed him. Why on earth would Juliet leaving the country in a couple of months be cause for panic? The longest relationship he’d ever had with a woman had been two months, so it should be perfect timing.

But the truth was…he liked this girl. He really liked her. And she was going to live on the other side of the world.

He shifted slightly, disturbing the pillow she’d made from his shoulder so he could look at her. “Really?”

She nodded. “Yep. My flight is booked. I’m just building up my bank account so I can travel for as long as possible before having to find work.”

“Wait.” He shifted again and her head rolled back some more so he could see her better. “This isn’t just a holiday?”

“No. I have an extended visa, so I’ll be there for a year. To start with. Maybe longer if I can swing it.”

Ryder frowned. “You speak Italian?”

She smiled. “Si.”

“Fluently?”

“Yes. I majored in it when I was studying fine art.”

“Oh…right.” Ryder’s mind was blown. In a completely different way to earlier.

And nowhere near as satisfying.

“That’s a big step.” He’d been lucky to travel overseas with rugby, but he’d never sought to do it for pleasure. Or adventure. “Picking up everything and moving to the other side of the world.”

“Cogli l’attimo.” The Italian slipped off her tongue and trailed seductive fingers down his abs. Despite his consternation about her leaving, hearing her speak another language was sexy.

They could definitely have fun with that.

“Seize the day,” she translated.

“Is this because of your mum?”

“Yes and no.” Her hair moved softly over his arm as she rolled her head back to use his shoulder as a pillow again. “We were going to go together after I finished school, like a gap year before I started uni. My friends used to think that was so weird, but Mum and I were really close. She’d been talking up Italy to me all my life.”

“But she got sick?” Ryder’s fingers sifted absently through the silky strands of her hair.

“Yes. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour toward the end of my senior year.”

A brain tumour. Crap.

“We went through all the treatments and she went into remission, and then she had a severe stroke.”

Ryder’s hand stilled, a hot spurt of sympathy burning like acid as he exhaled a husky breath. “I’m sorry.”

It sounded completely inadequate, but he didn’t know what else to say. What a truly shitty thing to have happened. He thought of his own mother, so fit and healthy and vital. How close he was to her. How much her death would devastate him.

His hand slid to Juliet’s shoulder and he pulled her closer, her head settling in the crook of his neck.

“The stroke. It was quite debilitating.” Her lips brushed his throat as she spoke, her voice quiet and meditative, like she’d gone back to that time.

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