Page 12 of Playing to Win

I’m about to speak, to introduce myself, maybe tell her I’ve seen the commercials for her new book on TV, when she reaches me and places her finger across my lips.

What the fuck is happening?

I don’t care. I know I could wake up at any moment and I’ll be damned if I’m going to waste this moment. She’s so fucking hot for me.

I open my mouth quickly and take her finger between my teeth. Her eyes go wide and in her irises, I see flames. A hot, orange blaze.

She leaps up and I catch her long, toned legs around my waist. I crash my mouth against hers and we ravish each other, tongues lapping, each swallowing the other’s groans in the middle of the packed gym.

I carry her to the wall behind the hip-abductor machine and press her back to it, taking her weight with my body as she bites my bottom lip. I pull back from her to draw the zipper down the front of her bra and expose her pert tits.

“Brooks,” she moans.

Only, it isn’t her voice. I recognize that voice. I look up at her face. It’s no longer the woman from the commercial looking back at me. It’s… “Alice. God, I’ve wanted this for so long.” I close my eyes as I press my lips to hers, gently this time.

“Me too, Brooks.”

I pull back quickly as the voice shifts to a masculine one. I drop the lover who was a woman and who is now Jake on the floor.

Holy fucking fuck!

“I told you I preferred your body,” Dream Jake says.

Wake up! Right the hell now!

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I sit up in bed, my face screwed tight with disgust. “What the fuck?” My whispered words are lost in the empty bedroom. The alarm on my bedside table tells me it is 3:57. “Christ.”

I flop back against my pillows and rub my face. There’s no way in this freakin’ millennium I am going back to sleep and risking being in a lip-lock with Jake.

I reach under my bed and pull out my Mac. Maybe I’ll look over the franchise stuff Drew sent to me.

After twelve minutes of reading his high-level review points, I realize I don’t have the energy for this shit.

Instead, I write an e-mail to the guys, asking them if they want to get an ice hockey game going soon.

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