The Romance Line

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The first rule of handling PR for a hockey team? Never hook up with a player.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That shouldn't be a problem since the last man on earth I want to give an image makeover to is our goalie. He's infuriatingly hot famously grumpy and lives to spar with me after every game.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But shining up his rough edges is my path to landing the promotion I desperately need so I grit my teeth and do my job. No matter how hard he makes it (especially with that sexy smirk and cool blue eyes.) As we travel from pose-with-a-pet photo opps to cuddle-a-kitten fundraisers we bicker like it's foreplay.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Turns out it is.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because as I get to know the man behind the broody iceman exterior it's me that melts - right into his arms as he devastates me with a kiss that turns into the hottest most forbidden night of my life.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only once </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>turns into </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>every night </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>as Max shows me how much he wants to take care of me. His possessive touch makes me feel adored for the first time in my life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the man is entirely off limits and I can't risk my job for more of those soul-deep kisses.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because the only thing worse than hooking up with a player is falling head over heels for him.</strong></p>