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🥅 Micro Tropes 🥅
🏒 He falls first
💜 Touch her & die
🏒 Only one bed (at her parents’ house)
💜 Pet names
🏒 He buys her a car
💜 He takes care of her
🏒 Opposites attract
💜 “I don’t do relationships”
🏒 Jealousy
💜 Secret past / Hidden trauma
🏒 Slow burn
An all-new steamy and angsty Ice Hockey Romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Tracy Lorraine.
Cole Hansley.
Hockey god.
My new boss.
I told myself I would play it safe this time… no risky shots, no heartbreak rebounds.
But working as a personal chef for the LA Vipers’ star goalie comes with one problem. Well, technically two.
His notorious reputation.
And my crush.
He needs someone he can count on. I need someone who won’t break me.
I’ve already lived through being second to a man’s career, and I refuse to do it again.
I don’t want fame.
I don’t want the spotlight.
I just want peace.
But Cole isn’t peaceful.
He’s all walls and warning signs—cold, distant, impossible to figure out.
And somehow, I still find myself wanting to slip past his lines of defense and find out what’s underneath the armor.
Will he let me in, or will I get shut out like everything else in his life?
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EXCERPT:
I can’t help but burst out laughing as he begins fanning his open mouth with his hand.
‘How? It came from the same bag as the one I tried.’
‘I don’t know,’ he mumbles, his eyes watering.
Rushing over to the fridge, I grab a gallon of milk and pour him a glass.
‘Here,’ I say, passing it over and watching him swallow every drop.
‘Wow, that was intense,’ he confesses before wiping his mouth. ‘Wait. You don’t believe me.’
‘What?’ I gasp. ‘I never said that.’
‘You don’t need to; I can see it in your eyes.’
‘I just… I don’t understand how that one could be so bad. The others were just warm, you know?’
‘Uh-huh, I know. That wasn’t warm,’ he says, pointing at the chopped-up chili. ‘It was fire.’
‘Try it, if you don’t believe me.’
‘It’s not – ‘
‘Go on. Try it.’
I narrow my eyes at him and he just smirks.
‘Fine,’ I huff, successfully baited.
I pick out a small piece of chopped chili and place it on my tongue.
It’s sweet, exactly as I expected from earlier.
I chew as Cole watches with an expectant look in his eyes, waiting for what he knows is coming.
And then it hits.
‘Oh, holy hell.’ I gasp when the fire strikes. ‘What on earth?’ I ask as I rush for the milk carton.
‘Told you,’ Cole states smugly.
