Pucked Off
an all-new emotional and sexy STANDALONE from
Helena Hunting is LIVE!!
Genre: Contemporary Romance
***A Standalone novel in The Pucked Series***
I’m NHL defenseman Lance Romero, AKA Lance “Romance."
I’m notorious for parties and excess. I have the most penalty minutes in the league. I get into the most fights. I take the most hits. I’m a player on and off the ice. I’m the one women with no inhibitions want.
Not because I like the notoriety, but because I don’t know how to be any other way.
I have secrets. Ones I shared with the wrong person, and she used them against me. Sometimes she still does. I should cut ties. But she makes it difficult, because she’s the kind of bad I deserve.
At least that’s what I believed until someone from my past gets caught up in my present. She’s all the good things in this world. She lights up my dark.
I shouldn’t want her.
But I do.
I should leave her alone.
But I won’t.
Excerpt:
Armed with my clipboard, I walk down the hall to the waiting room. Lance is impossible to miss. Despite the fact that he’s wearing a sweatshirt and the hood is covering half of his face, he’s more than six feet of broad, hockey-playing man.He’s so wide his shoulders encroach on the chairs on either side, which would explain why no one is sitting next to him. He’s slouched down so his head rests on the back of the chair, and his hands are clasped in his lap, a baseball cap hanging off one knee. His lips, plush and soft—I know since I’ve had them on mine; it might have been a decade ago, but I remember it clearly—are parted. He looks like he’s asleep.
I clear my throat. “Lance Romero?”
He doesn’t move.
Bernadette, the receptionist, gives me a meaningful look.
I clear my throat again and call his name a second time. He jolts awake and the hood falls back, exposing his face. It’s not in good shape. He has a black eye and bruises on his left cheek. There’s a fly bandage across one eyebrow.
Sadly, he’s still hot.
He blinks a few times, yawns, and smacks his lips, his tongue touching the split in the bottom one. His gaze sweeps the room and finally lands on me. Heat explodes in my cheeks and courses through my limbs, warming me from the inside out as he starts at my sneaker-clad feet and roams up over my yoga pants to my company-issued T-shirt before stopping at my face. I can’t look directly at him for more than a couple of seconds. I sincerely hope he doesn’t remember me. I cannot go there and also be professional.
I’m sure the smile he gives me has melted many a panty off a slutty bunny. Mine stay right where they’re supposed to, wedged up my ass.
I force a polite, professional veneer. “I’m ready for you now.”
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Wow, Helena Hunting is magical. There’s just no
other way she can pull so many emotions and feels out of a person. I’ve been
dying for Lance’s story. Since this is book 5 in the Pucked series, Lance has
been in the background of previous books. We would just get these little
glimpses of this man and I was just THRILLED to finally be able to read his story…
and what a story it was!!
I just adore… completely adore all the easy and fun
banter between all these characters. There’s just so fun and crazy!! This book
had a bit more deepness than some of the others and I just loved it…HARD!!
Lance is just like a real man… heavily flawed and messed up but he’s just so
sweet with his love of gummy bears. He was a fun person to read about. You won’t
be able to help yourself from bawling!!
This is a series that just MUST be read. If you like
books that make you laugh and swoon well than this is perfect for you!! Hunting
is a very talented writer!! Can you imagine being a massage therapist to all
these hockey players… yowzers!! I’m not sure if she’s crazy or the smartest
person around!! I liked Poppy too. She wasn’t just an easy girl, and drooled
over her man. I like a strong woman that stands up for herself.
Lance has the most amazing quotes in this book… I
just want to note a few since they really grasp how so many feel:
“I don't know how to exist without
the chaos, and I seek it because it confirms the message beaten into me as a
kid: I deserve to be a victim.”
“You’re all the good things I didn’t know I was missing.”
"I wanna deserve you. Why can't
I find a way to deserve you?"
I
received an ARC of this book with the hope that I will leave an Unbiased
Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my
opinions are just that... my opinions.
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