Boarded Hearts

<p><strong>My whole life I've come out on top.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>One of the finest players ever to grace the NHL? Check.</p><p><br></p><p>Most prolific playboy with an enviable reputation between the sheets? Check.</p><p><br></p><p>Award for the cockiest athlete in America? Also check, and well deserved I'd say.</p><p><br></p><p>So why does my life feel anything but the perfect image I project?</p><p><br></p><p>And why won't the one woman who came crashing into my life and knocked me on my six-foot four ass take me seriously?</p><p><br></p><p>She doesn't even recognize me, let alone worship the ground I walk on.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm in uncharted territory, tearing up my rule book and unearthing buried demons in my pursuit of her affection.</p><p><br></p><p>I always get what I want in life but apparently Felicity Thompson didn't get the memo. I want her in my bed, but all she offers me is her witty British tongue and no-nonsense attitude.</p><p><br></p><p>It isn't supposed to be this way. She's supposed to unravel for me. Yet the harder I pursue her, the more my own layers peel away.</p><p><br></p><p>Felicity Thompson is fast becoming not just what I want but the very woman I need in my life, and I'm terrified to admit that when it truly matters, I might not be coming out on top after all.</p>