Excerpt #3 Best Things in Life

May 09, 2022 11:57 pm

Exclusive Excerpt #3

Best Things In Life - a College Hockey Romance

Hello my romance reading friends--

Sorry I'm a day late this week. Deadlines are killer.

The release day for Nate's story, Best Things in Life is in 4 days!

I'm excited to share another EXCLUSIVE SNIPPET BELOW. 🔥🔥🔥

Nate is the St. Paul U goalie who appears as Trey's best friend in Your Kiss is on My List.

Writing about college sports has been a gall, but this will be the last one for a while in the St. Paul U world. 💜

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He Has Charm - A Hockey RomCom

At SQ's House

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and mother figures among us!

My siblings and I got together at my mother's house for dinner and reminisced about old times, growing up together and all the fun.

We all grew up in the same house, but we all had our individual experiences.

Also, dinner was great because my youngest sister who loves to cook, cooked it. 🍗✮

I hope you all had time to appreciate your mothers wherever they are remembered and the best parts of growing up.

In the meantime...

The NHL and NBA playoffs are heating up!

Go Boston Celtics 🏀 and Boston Bruins 🏒🧡

➜➜For all the basketball and hockey fans, enjoy the fun! This is the best time of year!

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Featured Review

YOUR KISS IS ON MY LIST

"I am on board with this series! Most characters return from book 1 and then there’s Dooley. Lol, I can’t even explain him but he is awesome, I love his role in this story. This was definitely a slow burn but I think it was worth the agony."

--Kristina, Amazon Reviewer

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Name That Character Contest

He Has Charm - a Hockey RomCom

The WINNER: Brandi

The Name: Maddox--aka Madman--Knight

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Best Things In Life

a Second Chance College Hockey Romance

Snippet #3

Nate

“I’m sorry.” They’re the only words that squeeze through the block in my throat, leaving emptiness behind. “For everything.” I croak out the words and glance up to see Summer with Bigs in the far corner. She has him turned away from us but I can’t count on that lasting. So I release Sarina from my hold, take my hands off her scorching body and take a step back.

“That’s it? That’s all you have?” She says, searching me, disappointment flashing and disappearing in a storm of self-righteous anger. I nod and disappear into the crowd without looking back. But it doesn’t matter because I can feel her accusing eyes searing into my back down to my very soul.

Was that my last chance? Was she giving me the chance to turn the clock back and instead I use the opportunity to double down on my mission to be a fucking NHL hockey player? Mission accomplished. Miserable. Desolate.

Dredging up the words my supposedly fucking wise older brother told me, I slice through the crowd and the bullshit and head for Coach who stands conspicuously near the main entrance—or exit in his case. My brother’s words? There’ll be plenty of time for women later. You’ll find the true love of your life when you’re a grown man, not some teenager in puppy love.

Fuck him. He doesn’t know how I feel. And if there’s a version of love that’s worse than this, and by worse I mean stronger and deeper, then I want no fucking part of it. Because it hurts like a thousand hells.

“Coach,” I say, dipping my head. He doesn’t bother smiling, thinning his mouth by way of acknowledgment.

“Garino.”

“I’m leaving.”

“Congratulations.” He frowns, but it’s a bored frown, not an irritated one. I snort.

“Nice talking,” I say and I think I see a small quirk of his mouth that could be a smile, but it’s probably a nervous tick. I turn and head for the door, pushing it open to the chill autumn night and breathing in the soul-saving air scented with the heady mixture of pine and leaves and a special ingredient only an elite university can add. I swear I can smell success.

I lean against a column on the front portico and slip out my phone to text Summer that I’m outside waiting for her whenever she’s ready. It doesn’t take long for her to appear with her sparkly glam cape thrown over her elegant little black dress as if she’s not sure whether she’s an adolescent or an adult. Kind of like I feel.

Maybe it’s how we all feel here in the bubble of college life, protected on all sides from the encroachment of the outside world, with our own rules and constructs—such as a fucking homecoming ball.

“You’re drunk,” she says. “I’ll drive.”

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