Here's EM Lindsey's "Stick Around." It's the fourth novel in her Punk as Puck series (and also the first novel in the Legends and Fury series?).
[""Would you slap a teammate for twenty-five grand?"
"Uh, yeah. There are a few I'd slap for free. Just point me in the right direction."
Problem number one: My personal life is falling apart.
Problem number two: My public life is also on thin freaking ice.
Problem number three: The ridiculously hot NHL D-man with the inability to remove his head from his ass has decided I’m his number one target.
And that last one is a bit of an issue since his idea of targeting me is to have absurdly hot hate-hookups with me in the locker room. Which I don’t necessarily mind…
Except there’s one tiny snag in his plan: I don’t like guys.
Or, well, I didn’t think I liked guys.
But when Alexio Zeki drops to his knees and, uh, gets to business, I realize my very narrow view of my own sexuality needs some adjustment.
And that’s ironic coming from a blind man.
Admitting I’m bisexual is the easy part.
Admitting I’m kind of, sort of, ridiculously into the man I claimed to hate is something else entirely. But the more he insists that I’m worth keeping, the more I start wanting to believe him."]
Fuuuuk me. These two almost ruined me. It was a level of hurt/comfort that only comes from enemies who aren't really enemies just two hotheads who don't really know each other. Who collide again and again until the chemistry and the think-y-thoughts become doing-thoughts. Again and again. Until the doing-thoughts became Feelings. Until it's just far too late to go back.
And then I cried. So like, thanks for that. Could have been worse I guess. Then again, no one's more stubborn than a hothead.
I did NOT think that we would get even more characters that I could obsess over. And yet, here we are. I canNOT (nooooot) wait for the next book. Fucking obsessed with Vanya
Trigger Warnings: past and current narcissistic parenting, ableism, on-page descriptions of having a parent with Alzheimer's, on-page hockey injury, C-PTSD, trauma recovery, and more.
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