Powerplay (Northbrook Hockey Elite Book 2) by Heather B. Moore & Sophia Summers & Rebecca Connolly

Author:Heather B. Moore & Sophia Summers & Rebecca Connolly [Moore, Heather B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Northbrook Hockey Elite, romance, clean and wholesome
Publisher: Mirror Press
Published: 2019-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

Meg walked hand in hand with Jax through his house as he flipped on lights. The exterior of the home was certainly modest compared to the remodeled interior. The place was flat-out gorgeous. Not flashy like Lucas’s home, but that didn’t matter to Meg, and it never would. She hoped Jax hadn’t been offended by her comment; she was just genuinely curious.

But as beautiful as the rooms were, the best thing about the tour was Jax’s fingers linked with hers. She wasn’t sure her feet had touched the ground since that kiss in the arcade room. Okay. So multiple kisses. Jax sure knew what he was doing when he kissed a woman, and thankfully, Meg’s research had told her he wasn’t a player. Hope had budded in her, and she wondered if this thing with Jax might be the start of something real. Something that wasn’t just a fling in his mind or a fluke in hers.

When he led her to his workout room, she paused in the doorway. Several workout machines were positioned throughout the room, including a treadmill and weight machines. Yet covering the walls were black-and-white photos of scenes from what looked like Africa and wells in various stages of construction.

“What’s this?” She released Jax’s hand and crossed the room to look at the pictures more closely. Some had Jax in them, and it looked like he was either building the wells or overseeing the work crew.

She scanned picture after picture, gazing at the wide smiles of the native villagers, along with a few men and women who were obviously American by their attire. She paused before a picture where Jax was standing to the side of a well, holding the hand of a little kid. Other children had crowded around the well, making silly faces for the photograph.

Meg had to laugh. The enthusiasm and joy coming from the kids was adorable.

She turned to find Jax leaning against the wall next to the door, hands in his pockets.

“Is this your charity or something? Building wells in Africa?”

“Yep.”

She stared at him for a second, and when he didn’t offer any more information, she continued to scan the pictures on the walls. After she’d completed a full circle, she noticed that the doorframe on the inside of the room was lined with mismatching bricks. Having seen the same type of bricks in the pictures of wells, she knew the bricks meant something. She placed a hand on one of the rough exteriors.

“Did you bring these back from Africa?”

Jax joined her at the doorway. “One for each well completed.”

Meg moved her fingers over a few of the bricks, thinking of the thousands of miles that separated Chicago from the hot, dusty African villages where water was the most precious commodity. Her hand paused over one that was almost black.

“That one is from two years ago,” Jax said, his voice rumbling close to her. “We’d just completed the well, and the next morning as we were packing to head home, a fire swept through the village.

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