Stand Your Ground

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I wrote up the contract myself.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Legally binding. Crystal clear. No strings. No feelings.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Just sex - and two million dollars in exchange for my time and expertise.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Carter Fabri may be Tampa Bay's newest rising star but off the ice he's all Bambi eyes and inexperience. He's a virgin in desperate need of lessons in dominance seduction and everything in between.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I happen to be just the woman to teach him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I don't need his money.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I do need what it can give me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm thirty-two cut off from my family and one bill away from drowning in student debt. The fantasy I've built around my lifestyle is getting harder to maintain. This pay day would secure the lifestyle I've worked too hard to let slip through my fingers and finally give me the chance to save for something I've always wanted - something I've never told anyone about.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So I take Carter on as my student. I lay out every rule every boundary every carefully controlled term of our arrangement.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What I don't plan for is how quickly he'd catch on - or how much I'd enjoy letting him take the reins.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This was supposed to be a lesson in power.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But somewhere along the way I stopped being the one in charge.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I thought I could keep my heart out of it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I thought I'd accounted for every risk.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But some consequences you can't predict - no matter how carefully you draft the terms.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>___________________________________________</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stand Your Ground is book five in the Kings of the Ice series: </em><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>a series of interconnected standalones </em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They do not need to be read in order but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each</em></p>