Goal Line

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the youngest heir of the Hartmann fortune and the backup goalie for the Boston Rebels the pro hockey team my family owns I've spent my life being the peacemaker in my cutthroat family and the goalie that my teammates can depend on.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have only one weakness: my coach's daughter Evangeline Wilcott.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eva is a pairs figure skater and my life-long best friend. I've always wanted more but she friend zoned me back in high school and we've lived thousands of miles apart since.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eight years later a secret pregnancy is threatening her skating career. When she's rushed to the hospital right before Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals I panic. Now my team's loss lies solely on my shoulders and I could be traded.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Eva needs help suggesting we get married is the easiest split-second decision I've ever made. A grandchild could keep me in Boston playing for my family's team and I'd do anything to take care of Eva.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We agree to a marriage based on friendship but once Eva and I are living together all those artificial walls we've built start crumbling. Now I'm making up for all the years I couldn't call her mine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when her past reappears in our new life together her happiness and my family's reputation are both threatened. And maybe I'm not so different from my family after all because I find there's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>nothing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I wouldn't do to keep my wife safe and happy.</span></p>