Major
Misconduct
Aces Hockey #1
Aces Hockey #1
By: Kelly Jamieson
Releasing October 13, 2015
Loveswept
In Kelly Jamieson’s seductive new Chicago Aces romance—perfect for readers of Sawyer Bennett and Toni Aleo—a fun-loving free spirit tempts an uptight hockey star into opening himself up to love.
As the captain of the Chicago Aces, Marc Dupuis is all business. The apartment he shares with his teammate and best friend, Duncan, is a refuge from the pressures of fame. But when the sexiest woman he’s ever seen interrupts his early morning coffee wearing only a skimpy cami and matching panties, Marc can’t exactly say he minds. Their chemistry is off the charts. Unfortunately, this girl’s no random puck bunny. She’s Duncan’s little sister—and she’s moving in.
Lovey Armstrong could stare at Marc’s chiseled abs and listen to his French-Canadian accent all day. She just has no idea what’s going on inside his head: When he’s not charming her pants off, Marc makes a Zamboni machine seem warm and cuddly. Lovey knows the team’s bro code says no messing with sisters, but all these mixed messages are hard on a girl’s self-esteem—especially since she’s finally getting her new life together in Chicago. She decides he’s worth another shot . . . because if anyone can melt the ice around Marc’s heart, it’s Lovey.
As the captain of the Chicago Aces, Marc Dupuis is all business. The apartment he shares with his teammate and best friend, Duncan, is a refuge from the pressures of fame. But when the sexiest woman he’s ever seen interrupts his early morning coffee wearing only a skimpy cami and matching panties, Marc can’t exactly say he minds. Their chemistry is off the charts. Unfortunately, this girl’s no random puck bunny. She’s Duncan’s little sister—and she’s moving in.
Lovey Armstrong could stare at Marc’s chiseled abs and listen to his French-Canadian accent all day. She just has no idea what’s going on inside his head: When he’s not charming her pants off, Marc makes a Zamboni machine seem warm and cuddly. Lovey knows the team’s bro code says no messing with sisters, but all these mixed messages are hard on a girl’s self-esteem—especially since she’s finally getting her new life together in Chicago. She decides he’s worth another shot . . . because if anyone can melt the ice around Marc’s heart, it’s Lovey.
Have
you ever been the little ignored younger sibling? The one in the shadows; that
everyone thinks is spoilt and flighty and everyone thinks she doesn’t know what
she is doing with her life! Well that is Lovey; even though she is a hard
working women, no one would believe that she was actually smart enough to run
her own social media promotions company…but that actually what she does, only
she hides it from everyone but Marc.
Marc
Dupuis is a lot of things, but most of all he is a determined professional
goalie for the NHL Team Chicago Aces. Things changed when Lovey turns up out of
the blue, after leaving her boyfriend/fiance back in their hometown and sudden
arrives in at her brothers apartment, where he lives and he has to keep
reminding himself that she is off limits…until the sexual tension explodes
between them and begin a secret romance
But
things come to a head when Loveys brother finds out and one of them gets cold
feet, but their reasons is surprising….will this be the end of Lovey and Marc? Or
the beginning!
I
will be blunt! I read this book, LOVED IT and have read it pretty much daily
since I got my hand on it! Seriously, I cannot get this story out of my mind! I
love every single one of the characters! It’s honestly like they are my family!
And I can honestly say I have felt like Lovey at times in my life, so I can
totally sympathize with her character!
So
on the basics; the writing is smooth, the story was complete and there was not
a plot hole to be found. Overall the book was pure joy to read and that is why
I give it a very well deserved, 10 out of 10!
She’d never begrudged
Duncan his success. She was proud of her brother. He’d worked hard his whole
life to achieve what he had and he totally deserved it. But there had been
times she’d wished she had some kind of super talent that would make everyone
proud of her.
“You’re giving me the
gears before I’m barely in the door. Not cool, Dunc.”
His lips quirked as if he
was repressing another smile. He gestured to one of the brown leather couches.
“Sit down.”
She sank into the couch
and crossed her legs.
Duncan sat across from
her. “You don’t quit a perfectly good job just because it’s not your dream job,
Lovey. If you don’t like it, you look around for something else and then
you quit.”
“Not if you’re moving to
Chicago. I had to quit so I could move here. I’ll find something here, I’m
sure.”
Duncan thought she was a
flighty, impetuous screwup who’d quit a good job and moved to another state on
a whim. And she wasn’t about to set him straight on that, because . . . it was
true.
Well, to a certain extent
it was true. But she didn’t want to tell him about her goals and dreams because
. . . because she wasn’t entirely sure she could do this . . . and she didn’t
want him saying “I told you so” if she failed.
She pushed down her
misgivings and smiled at him. “I just need a place to stay for a while.”
“You can’t stay here.”
Her mouth dropped open.
“What? Why not? You’ve got tons of room! Look at this place.” She sat up
straight and swept an arm out. “Fifty billion square feet, probably ten
bathrooms . . .”
“Two and a half,” he
corrected. “And three bedrooms. And it’s only two thousand square feet. Not
fifty billion,” he added in a muttered tone.
“Only two
thousand. As if one guy needs that much space.”
“I have a roommate,” he
reminded her. “Two of the three bedrooms are occupied and the third has no
furniture.”
She frowned and sank back
into the couch. “Oh. Well. That doesn’t matter. I’ll just sleep on the floor
until we can get me a bed.”
“We’re not getting you a
bed.”
“Hey, Army, what time are
we heading out?” a deep male voice interrupted them. “Oh. Hey.”
Lovey’s head snapped
around at the unfamiliar voice and then her eyes went wide and her jaw dropped.
The guy standing across
the room wore a pair of boxer shorts and nothing else. Sweet cheese-its, he was
hot. Even more muscular than Duncan, he was about the same height. Short brown
hair stood in messy spikes on top, and the same golden-brown stubble lay over
his chiseled jaw and upper lip. His lips were thinnish but nicely shaped, his
eyes a beautiful sky blue color she could see from here, framed with thick
eyelashes.
Her gaze tracked over
bulky shoulders and arms, a chest that was slabs of muscle and smooth golden
skin, a freakin’ eight-pack of abs that literally made her want to drool, then
down over the blue boxer shorts sitting low on lean hips, to his bare legs. She
blinked at the size of his thighs and the delineation of the massive muscles
bulging above his knees. His calves were also strong, covered with more dark
gold hair. His long, sinewy bare feet stood on the bare wood floor.
She lifted her gaze back
up to his face and smiled. “Hi.”
He blinked, his expression
not changing. “Uh. Hi.” He glanced at Duncan. “Sorry, man, didn’t know you had
someone here.” He took a step back.
“Dude, go put some clothes
on. This is my little sister.”
The guy’s eyes flickered.
“Oh. Shit. Be right back.”
“Wait!” Lovey rose and
legged it across the carpet in her heels, hand outstretched. “I’m Lovey. It’s
nice to meet you; you must be Duncan’s roommate. Marc, right?”
He took another step back
but she kept going. He shoved a hand out, maybe to stop her. She grabbed it to
shake it.
“Yeah. Marc.”
The faint inflection in
the way he said it was . . . sexy. “You’re French.” Her smile broadened.
“Yeah.” He gave her a
quick handshake, then released her hand and took two more steps away. “Marc
Dupuis. I’ll, uh, be back.”
He disappeared down the
hall and she admired the back view. Whoa. Wide at the shoulders, muscled back,
deep grooves down the middle that disappeared into the low waistband of the boxers,
which did not hide a very firm ass. She gave a sigh of pleasure.
“Lovey.”
She blinked and turned to
look at her brother.
“That’s why
you can’t stay here. This is a bachelor home. You can’t live here with two
guys.”
She frowned. “Why not?”
His eyebrows flew up. “We
walk around half-dressed sometimes. We don’t want to have to be worried about
covering up.”
She grinned. “Don’t worry
on my account. You . . . phht.” She waved a hand and rolled her eyes. “He
can walk around naked anytime he wants.”
“Jesus fuckin’ Christ.”
Duncan rubbed his face. “We drink beer. We make a mess. Well, I do,” he
amended. “We party. Lotta the other guys hang out here too.”
She shrugged. “It’s not as
if I’m not used to your friends hanging out.” He’d played hockey all through high
school—well, all his life, basically—and there’d always been a bunch of guys
crowding up their Columbia County dairy farmhouse.
“We have girls over.” He
gave her a meaningful look.
She laughed, flopping down
on the couch again. “I should hope so.”
“You’re not going to be
comfortable here.”
She looked around. “I
think I could be very comfortable here.” She gave a nod. “This is a gorgeous
place to live. Nice view too.” In the distance Lake Michigan was a haze of
blue.
“Fuck,” Duncan muttered.
Marc reappeared, now fully
dressed, sadly. Although with clothes on he still looked amazeballs hot. “Sorry
about that. Didn’t know you were here, uh, Lovey.”
She beamed at him. “No
problem. Duncan was more freaked-out than I was.”
Duncan rolled his eyes.
Lovey studied Marc in his
clothes—low-rise faded jeans that had to be specially made to fit loosely over
those massive thighs, and a long-sleeve black T-shirt. She let out another
brief sigh.
He moved to perch on one
of the stools at the big island, then stopped as he took in the mess in the
kitchen. With a head shake, he began to clean up, tossing cold pizza into the
trash, loading empty beer bottles into cartons. “This place is gross.”
Duncan shrugged and leaned
back. “You knew that when you moved in. Don’t get all pissy. You don’t have to
clean up.”
“I know, I know.” Marc
stacked empty pizza boxes into a blue recycling box. “Just can’t stand the
fucking mess.”
Duncan grinned. “That’s
your problem.”
Lovey looked back and
forth between them. Duncan was a slob, no doubt about it. Mom had pulled her
hair out trying to teach him to clean up after himself. Apparently none of it
had sunk in. Marc, on the other hand . . . seemed to have learned well. Or
maybe he was a neat freak.
Nothing wrong with that.
Not at all.
Especially when he looked
that good while cleaning up.
Kelly Jamieson is
the author of more than thirty contemporary romance novels. She’s a married
mother of two who lives a very ordinary life outside of her imagination. She
likes coffee (black), wine (mostly white), and shoes (high!). She also loves
watching hockey.
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