The Flirting Game

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Revenge was the plan. Falling for the hockey star next door wasn't.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My new neighbor is a hot grumpy hockey player who works out shirtless on his porch every morning. But it's not technically spying if I just happen to be on my patio at the same time ... right?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Imagine my surprise when the sexy grouch turns out to be the client who just hired me to redecorate the house he's giving his mom.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What's a ray of sunshine like me to do? Pretend I've never noticed his abs while we pick out furniture-since I'd never date a client. And Ford's made it clear this is his final season and he wants zero distractions.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Which means I need to exercise some serious resistance ...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To his cool blue eyes that track my every move.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To that deep voice that makes me shiver.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And to the mouth that shuts me up one night in our shared backyard with a scorching kiss.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We agree it's a one-time slip-up-until my cheating ex invites me to a party and Ford insists on being my revenge date. Our fake night out turns into a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>very real </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>sleepover.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now the press and fans think we're a couple so we keep it up. One fake date at a charity gala turns into another at a hockey game and somewhere between fabric swatches and porch picnics I stop pretending.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But how do I convince Ford that with me he can have </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>both</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> love and hockey?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes: Neighbors to lovers hockey romance workplace romance revenge fake dating romantic comedy. This is Ford and Skylar's romance!</strong></p><p></p>