Pucker Up

With a millimetre of space between our lips, I stopped him. "I can't lose this job."

He gulped, our foreheads resting against each other. "I can't lose this team."

"Then what the hell are you doing, Hudson?"

He pushed away from me, running a hand through his hair. "I don't know! Ok, I have no fucking idea. I've tried to push you away and I've tried to ignore this feeling... but here I am." He reached for my waist, but I side-stepped him. "I can't stay away from you."

If I let him touch me now, it would be over. "Well it's a good thing at least one of us has self-restraint. I'm not risking this season for some hook-up."

~

When head-strong ex-NWHL hockey player, Bobby Jackson, shifts her focus from playing to coaching, her father jumps at the chance to have her work alongside him as an assistant coach for a back-to-back championship-winning university team. Bobby accepts, believing the promise she made herself -- to never get involved with another hockey boy-- will remain intact even though she will be surrounded by a full team of guys around her own age. She has no plans of compromising her career, or her heart, by getting involved with anyone. But then again, Bobby didn't plan on someone like Hudson Winters trying out for her team.

The ever-impulsive Hudson Winters didn't transfer universities and move 8 states west to let any distractions come between him and the championship title-- no matter how much his best friends rave about all the girls they could wheel now that the boys were back together. All Hudson cares about in his senior year of college is playing the beautiful game with his best friends, forgetting about the drama back home, and finally winning gold. Everything was going according to plan until he showed up to the first practice and set his eyes on the most beautiful girl he had ever seen- and one of the only people to have beat him in a face-off in a long time- his assistant coach, Bobby Jackson.