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Hat Trick by Cassie Cole Read Free Chapter 6

June It’s good to see you there when I skate back to the bench. You’re a comforting presence. Cole’s comment stuck with me for the rest of the day, even after I went home. As a woman, I received compliments all the time. At the coffee shop, or the gym, or at work. Over time,

Hat Trick by Cassie Cole Read Free Chapter 4

June The next two weeks were a blur of activity. First, the team flew to Tampa to play the Lightning. I got to travel with everyone else, flying on the plane and staying at the same hotel. That’s when it really sank in that I was a member of the team, and not just an outsider who

Hat Trick by Cassie Cole Read Free Chapter 3

June “I am excited!” I insisted on the phone while sitting in traffic. “Why wouldn’t you think I’m excited?” “Because you don’t want your father and me to come to the game,” my mom replied on the other end. “It’s a six-hour drive. It’s not worth it.” “You’re going to be on television! And you don’t think

Hat Trick by Cassie Cole Read Free Chapter 2

Rhett This girl had no idea what she’d gotten herself into. Hockey wasn’t the same as baseball, or tennis, or all those other sports where you frolicked around and shook hands with the other players after a match. Hockey players were full of piss and vinegar. We were real men who fought it out on the ice,

Some Like It Secret by Heather Long Read Free Chapter 12

Chapter 12 Sebastian Aheadache pulsed behind Sebastian’s right eye and fatigue weighed him down like the chains of Marley’s ghost, but the Canadian ambassador seemed far from done with his long-winded explanation of how negotiations would proceed. Jacobs, it seemed, was a thorough man. For a split-second, Sebastian’s gaze collided with the Kachusov’s who served

Some Like It Secret by Heather Long Read Free Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Meredith An artist. Sebastian was an artist. It was like the interlocking, yet oh so vital, centerpiece she’d been missing of a puzzle. He painted everything—landscapes, people, and scenes from mythology. The emotional depth of the works took her breath away. He stood patiently while she walked from stack to stack and began to