Face Off (D.C. Stars, #1)
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The money is nice—it would be ignorant of me to disregard how lucky I am financially—but signing with the Sea Crabs also meant coming home to the place Maverick and I created together. An apartment big enough for all our friends, just outside DC. It’s a forty-five minute drive to the arena, and only twenty minutes from the Civic Center.
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Emmy’s pretty boy spanning across his heart in my handwriting.
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“Yup. Five hundred questions, remember? Today is lucky number five hundred.”
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“Emerson Rose Hartwell. Love of my life. The most badass hockey player I’ve ever had the pleasure of being teammates with. My sweet girl and my dream woman. Will you marry me?”
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Hudson blasts a confetti cannon and Grant holds up a shirt that says she said yes to the biggest dick in the world! Ethan and Seymour have a sign with nearly a hundred signatures on it, and Piper is crying so much, Liam has to drag her across the ice with his stick.
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Even the grumpy goalie has a smile on his face. Dallas is trying to keep June from skating toward her uncle, and Reid is shoving his phone in his jeans, giving us his full attention. Lexi and Maven hold hands and jump up and down, and I see my dad waving from a suite above center ice with Duke and Grady next to him. All of my favorite people are in my favorite spot, and I don’t think I could dream up a better moment if I tried.
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“I’ve always been yours.” I hold up my palm, and the ring sparkles under the arena lights. “You just want to show me off.” “Maybe I want you to show me off,” he says, and I roll my eyes.
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