From Coast to Coast (Offsides #4)

by J.J. Mulder

“You better not fall in love with me,” he warns, hopping off of the counter and brushing up against me. “One marriage was enough for me, I won’t do it again.”

“Yeah. Amanda used to always be reading, and since she was super supportive of my hockey, I figured I’d be super supportive of her reading. We started our own little book club where I’d read the same book she was. They were always romance novels and, Gray”—he looks at me—“some of these books are freaking wild.” “How so?” I laugh at the expression on his face. “I can’t even explain it to you. You’ll just have to read them for yourself one day. But my point is, everybody in these damn books has, like, earth-shattering orgasms, and the sex with their partner is the greatest fucking thing to ever happen to them. I can tell you with absolute certainty, I have never had sex that good.”

“Gray?” “Yeah?” “Just so you know—that’s the kind of sex people in romance novels have.”

A relationship doesn’t always have to feel like work. Sometimes it can just be beautiful.”