Breakaway by Heather B. Moore & Sophia Summers & Rebecca Connolly

Author:Heather B. Moore & Sophia Summers & Rebecca Connolly [Moore, Heather B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Northbrook Hockey Elite, Hockey, Romance, Contemporary romance, clean and wholesome
Publisher: Mirror Press
Published: 2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

Declan had steered her like he was a man on a mission, and now they’d ended up in a back room that was half full of tables and boxes. Some sort of storage place lit with low lighting. Music thumped from the restaurant in a steady beat.

When he let go of her, he stood between her and the door leading back into the restaurant. Like a formidable barrier.

He folded his arms, and she didn’t miss how he winced from his hurt shoulder. His dark shirt made his eyes look nearly black, and the fabric stretched across his chest, giving a hint of what she’d already seen earlier that night when he’d been shirtless. A chain glinted at his neck, which only drew her attention to his muscled shoulders.

She forced her eyes up, taking in the scruff on his jaw and the grim set of his mouth. His long, dark eyelashes had probably made more than one woman envious, including her.

“Todd’s bad news, Camila,” he said.

So this was about Todd. “Oh really?” she countered. “How so?”

“Trane said he’s a player.”

“Isn’t every hockey player like that?” she said. Maybe not Declan, since she still hadn’t been able to find any dirt on him. And Trane seemed totally decent. Friendly, but not flirty. Of course, he thought she and Declan were dating—which was so far from reality it wasn’t even funny. “So, it’s okay for you and Trane to hang around ‘bad news’ guys, but not me?”

Declan didn’t even flinch. “It’s different.”

“Why? Because I’m a woman?”

This time, he did release a sigh. “Yes.”

“Wow, look at you, all smug and sexist,” she spat out before she could curb her words.

He flinched at her accusation but didn’t defend himself.

She hadn’t expected this night to go like this at all. Not Declan’s silence, his watchfulness, how he’d answered for her when Todd was talking to her. He’d been acting all . . . what had Paige called it? Caveman-like. Yeah, that was it.

And what right did he have to tell her who she could and couldn’t talk to? He wasn’t her brother, or her father, or anyone who had a say in her life at all.

“You know, Declan Rivera,” she said, “I’m tired of you acting like a controlling older brother. I have enough of that with my dad and his wife. I don’t need another person thinking they can take on that role.” Her voice heaved with emotion, mostly because it seemed that her words were falling on deaf ears. Here he was looking all tough and imposing—the big hockey hero of the night with a black eye to prove it. Well, none of that intimidated her.

“Camila—”

“Stop, now, Declan.” She pushed a finger against his chest, determined to get her message through. It was her turn to speak, not his. “I don’t need you hovering over me or censoring who I talk to. Stop acting like a brother.”

His dark eyes glinted in the dimness of the room, and there was something in them that Camila hadn’t seen before.

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