Meet Your Match (Kings of the Ice, #1)

by Kandi Steiner

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I googled this like crazy to see if I'd missed something in English class - no luck.

It was so far from what I was used to when it came to women, I couldn’t help but be enamored by it, by her.

“I don’t want to play these fucking games with you. I don’t want to be in pain when I see you with one of my teammates because I don’t have the assurance that you’re mine, and I don’t want to try to make you jealous with some random fucking girl I don’t even know. This isn’t who I am, but it’s who you make me because I’m fucking crazy for you.”

“I didn’t know you were so flexible,” I mused, hips thrusting until I entered her another inch. “You didn’t know I don’t have a gag reflex, either,” she clipped. “Tonight is full of surprises.”

“I feel about music the way I feel about pottery, I think,” he said. “I don’t have to fully understand it to know that it’s beautiful.” He paused, frowning at his own words, and then his gaze sifted to me. “Funny. I kind of feel that way about you, too.”

“We can’t do stuff like this, Vince,” she whispered, licking the tears from her lips. “Because when we do, I… I feel like…” My heart stopped in my chest before firing back to life with a thunderous kick. “You feel like what, Maven?” I asked, nostrils flaring as I took a step toward her. “Like I love you?”