⭐ Bianca & Janeane ⭐
• standalone
• #2 in the Lies, Hearts & Truths series
• angsty new adult
• #PUCKED & #ALL IN spin-off
(2nd generation!)
From the outside looking in, I live a charmed life: hockey legend for a father, my own promising future in the league, a great family, awesome friends. It’s not untrue, but it’s not quite that simple either.
My dad’s advice has always been to make hockey my number-one priority—at least until I make it to the pros. So, going into my senior year of college, I have a plan. I’ll put in the effort required to pass my classes, play hockey like my life depends on it, and avoid relationships. All I have to do is stay focused on the end game, and I’ll walk away with a degree and into a career in the NHL.
It should be easy.
But when a woman literally floats into my dock, just before summer ends and my senior year begins, I can’t resist one last hookup. What harm could a one-night stand do? It’s not like we even exchanged numbers.
Everything is fine until I run into her on campus.
It’s a big school. I should be able to avoid her.
Except she happens to be in my class.
And she’s not a student.
She’s my professor.
Clover + Maverick
Will we get a HEA?
Adorable!
If you're book-weird like I am ... I suggest you read LITTLE LIES first - there's a lot of Maverick in there and there's a lot of the other people in here!
When seven o’clock arrives, I introduce myself and explain
that I’ll be taking over for Professor Connelly. I field a few questions and
reassure the students that he’s okay. I also brought in a get well soon card
for them to sign. I pass it to the student directly in front of me, then pull
up my attendance list and start calling names.
The door opens when I’m halfway through, and a student
straggles in. It happened in my English class earlier, but in a class of three
hundred students, it’s easier to slip in the back door and quietly find a seat.
That’s what I expect this student to do.
Except his phone starts ringing. And it’s not a normal
ringtone. It’s a song blaring through the room at full volume.
“Fuck. Shit.” He’s standing in the middle of the room,
facing the back of the class, every single student staring at him in wide-eyed
horror.
He rummages around in his pocket and pulls out the offending
device as Justin Bieber croons “I’m so fucking lonely” to the entire class.
Instead of silencing it, he answers the call—on speaker.
A male voice that sounds like an angry father starts
yelling. “Why the hell am I getting calls about you being late for practice,
you’re—”
He spins around, gaze moving over the class as he takes in
their looks of horror. He’s wearing a baseball cap, and the lights above cast a
shadow over his face. “Oh, fuck me,” he mutters. “Hey, Dad, I’m in the middle
of class. I’ll call you back later.” He rushes the words, so it all sounds
quite garbled. Then he drops into the closest empty desk and slams his elbow on
the edge on his way down. He sucks in a groan.
I give the student a look that I hope conveys how
unimpressed I am. “Are you quite done?” I’m ready to go off on him, but he
raises a hand and knocks his hat off his head.
“Uh, sorry, Professor. I think I might be in the wrong
class.” His eyes dart around the room. “Or maybe not?”
“Professor Connelly is out for back surgery. Professor Sweet
is taking over the class,” the student beside him says.
“Oh shit.” His vibrant green gaze, ringed in hazel, meets
mine.
All the air leaves my lungs on a whoosh. The room tilts, and
I’m suddenly light-headed. I can tell instantly that he recognizes me, and the
silence in the room is deafening. Fortunately, he fills it by rambling out an
explanation.
“Sorry about the phone call. And for being late. Coach kept
me after practice and my dad’s on my ass because I had a bad game. I’m so
sorry, Cl—” He clasps his hands in front of him and bites his lips together.
“Don’t let it happen again.”
My mouth feels like it’s full of cotton, and the rest of me
feels disconnected from my body. Because this student, sitting in the middle of
my sophomore class, is my summer fling.
Book #3
Pucked Series
#1.5 - Getting Down
