"Bedding one hot hockey player is enough for most girls, but two...well that's just greedy!"
What I
know about hockey could fit on the back of a stamp. So my latest patient may be
one of the NHL’s hottest defensemen, but I’m not exactly blown away by his
stardom. Add in the fact that he’s a surly, growling grump, and I’m more than
happy to work my magic on his battered body then hot-foot to my date with his
teammate, Todd “Pretty” Carty.
Todd is
sex on a stick, a slice of man heaven, and I want a bit of the action,
preferably of the bedroom variety. But when Raven emerges from his bad mood and
throws his energy into blowing my mind with just one kiss, I find my head
spinning and my libido raging.
What I
didn’t bargain on is these hard-training, hard-playing hockey players working
as efficiently off the ice as on when it comes to getting results. But who am I
to complain when satisfaction is their ultimate goal?
Excerpt
A noise behind me jolted me from my sexy daydream. Turning, my breath caught and my head went fuzzy. Standing just inside the doorway of the kitchen were Todd and Raven.
A noise behind me jolted me from my sexy daydream. Turning, my breath caught and my head went fuzzy. Standing just inside the doorway of the kitchen were Todd and Raven.
Their shoulders were almost touching, each as tall as
the other, but that was where any similarity ended.
Todd looked suave and sophisticated. His blond hair
was carefully tousled, he wore smart navy pants, a white shirt and pale-blue
tie. He held a pink gift bag decorated with an enormous bow and he was grinning
broadly.
Raven once again wore just his sweats. His skin, the
color of a perfect, just-baked loaf of bread, appeared shower damp and his hair
was scraped back. He topped off his look with the usual scowl and drawn-down eyebrows.
Todd walked over to the table, his shiny leather shoes
clacking on the floor, and set down the gift. “Morning, sugar, how’d you
sleep?”
“Well, I…not too good actually.”
“I’m sorry about that.” He stepped up to me, slotted
his hand into my hair and gave me a soft kiss, right in the center of my lips.
I couldn’t help but melt, and had to curl my hand around his forearm to keep my
balance. Damn it, he was good. He smelled and felt marvelous, his cologne a
combination of lemon and green apples, and his just-shaved chin as smooth as
silk against mine. If I hadn’t been holding on, I would have pinched myself to
make sure I wasn’t dreaming.
“Sorry, I’m early. I guess I was looking forward to
seeing you,” he said quietly against my mouth.
“That’s fine, but I’m not quite ready and I just need
to…” I glanced around his shoulder at Raven. “I just need to do ten minutes of
acupuncture on Raven before we go.”
“Ah, the silent acupuncture treatment.” Todd dropped
his hand from my hair and turned to face Raven.
Raven’s fists clenched and his shoulders lifted toward
his ears. Somewhere in my subconscious, I took that as a good sign, but I was
more worried about the stormy expression flitting across his face—the tight set
of his jaw and the way his lips had thinned—none of it boded well.
He hasn’t calmed down from last night then.
“I’ve heard all about your arrangement,” Todd said to
Raven with a laugh. “How you two can’t bear to speak to one another. You’re a
fool. I keep telling you, lighten up.”
Raven’s nose twitched and he took several
ground-eating paces across the kitchen until he was face-to-face with Todd.
“Fiona and I communicate just fine,” he said,
narrowing his eyes. “You’d do well to remember that.”
Todd raised his eyebrows. Amusement sparkled in the
depths of his blue irises. He didn’t seem in the slightest bit bothered by the
murderous intent oozing from Raven.
Hell, I am.
If they were going to kick off, I had no intention of
getting in the middle of all that brawn. And if Todd kept smirking at Raven,
then fireworks were really going to explode. Spectacularly.
I stepped away but a sudden arm around my waist
stopped me moving far.
“Hey,” I gasped, staring up at Raven. “Let me—”
Suddenly he was kissing me with the same extreme
passion he had the night before. I murmured a weak, pitiful complaint and, to
my shame, allowed him to take total possession. I was helpless, too far gone.
Raven’s particular brand of kissing was addictive and completely irresistible.
His tongue probed deep and he tipped me backward,
dipping me to the floor at the same time as pulling me up against his warm skin
and holding me secure in his arms.
As suddenly as it started the kiss stopped. He pulled
me up and looked deep into my eyes. I was breathless, breathless and turned-on
and about to become a quivering mass of helpless need on the kitchen tiles.
Jesus, what girl wouldn’t be?
My robe had slipped open and I could feel the cool
air-conditioning blowing down on my cleavage, my belly and the tops of my
thighs. I welcomed it, I was feverish.
“You see, Todd, no problem,” Raven said, gently
pulling me completely upright but doing nothing about my exposed body.
“Communication is not an issue at all. We’ve got a great system.”
A seed of sense returned and hurriedly I covered
myself—words, apologies, excuses tripping through my brain. “Todd, I-I’m sorry,
he…I…”
Todd tipped back his head and laughed. A great big
guffaw. “Don’t worry about it.” He held his palms up to Raven. “I’m just glad
you haven’t completely ducked out of the land of the living, buddy. I was
worried about you there.”
“I’m fine.”
“Yeah, I can see that.” Todd pulled in a deep breath, looked at me then back to Raven. His face fell serious. “Only thing is, you’ve just kissed my date.” He lifted his eyebrows. “And I’m not sure what to do about that.”
“Yeah, I can see that.” Todd pulled in a deep breath, looked at me then back to Raven. His face fell serious. “Only thing is, you’ve just kissed my date.” He lifted his eyebrows. “And I’m not sure what to do about that.”
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