If You Claim Me

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hockey's most hated player just asked me to marry him. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Connor Grace is the league's bad boy-and my best friend's worst enemy. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He's the fallen prince of a famous hotel chain dynasty. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Me? I'm the foster kid who grew up to be a librarian. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I never thought I'd end up in a marriage of convenience to make someone's grandma happy but here we are. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I have no plans to kiss my husband for any reason other than show. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I have no plans to fall in love with the arrogant man dressed in a custom suit hiding intricate tattoos. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But when we're alone he drops the mask he wears for the rest of the world. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He holds me like he means it when he says I'm his. And I want to believe him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Too bad I learned early on that fairytales aren't real and nothing good lasts forever. </span></p><p></p>