The Penalty Box Affair

What do you do when the hot younger hockey player you swore you’d stop banging is the perfect revenge date to your ex’s wedding? Pretend to be a couple. Obviously.

I was going to take the high road. I really was. But Nix needs image rehab before management benches him, and I need a plus-one who proves I’ve moved on to bigger and better things. Especially the bigger part . . . Besides, we’re adults. We can pretend to be hot for each other without actually getting it on in the great outdoors. Again.

Right before one of my employees strolls through the garden gate and catches us on the back porch . . . Oops. Okay, so mistakes were made. And made again. And again. But it’s hard to remember why this is a bad idea when Nix is so . . . perfect. So funny, smart, and protective. So hot and hot for me in a way that makes a girl think she gave up on love a little too soon. I’m two fake kisses away from asking him to be the real thing when a family emergency blows our plan to pieces. Suddenly, it isn’t just our hearts on the line.

His career hangs in the balance, my life is under a microscope, and one wrong step could mean we're both in the penalty box for good.