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Chapter 1

Candace

“Aaron, please explain to me how you ended up ‘balls deep’ in the Stanley Cup?” You fucking idiot, I say in e of my nose as I lean back in my chair

I close roans my nickname “It was a private party I’m allowed to be naked at my house Fuck, I just won the Stanley Cup,” he snaps

“There were over one hundred people there Did you know all one hundred?” I ask but then don’t wait for an answer before I continue “I wake up this h the roof, and then I open it, and there you are Swinging your dick like you’re fucking Tarzan”

“You looked at roan “I always thought you liked rower…?”

“Can you for one second shut up?” I ask, trying to stay professional by not telling him that I wouldn’t touch him with a ten-foot pole “How do you want me to spin this?”

“How about you say that I was celebrating onfun” He al of a deal”

“Actually,” I start “It’s a huge deal, considering we spent the past year pushing you as a family man”

“How do you think I got the fahs at his stupid joke, and I know that this conversation isn’t going nowhere

“Auntie Can!” Hearing my name, I look up from my laptop toward the doorway and seetoward me She clirab the pen next to enda I reach for her book and open it so she can doodle on it

I hang up with Aaron and look at my niece “Don’t ever date hockey players,” I say and then hear my brother, Evan

“Don’t ever date anyone,” he says, and I look over at hi us He and his wife, Zara, are in town fro for the week I’hteen When he turned twenty, his career really started to take off, so he began to work on his i, and that is where I as his little sister came into the picture I took over his social ot on Twitter and Facebook, the ht er than anyone expected It started with hi one person, and then the other person told another one, and I now e the social media accounts of over fifty NHL players I speak with each of the they need I also have a waitlist for the ones I can’t take on right now

“What are you co his waist The story of the two of them is rather funny She tweeted hireed to be her plus one to crash her ex’s wedding Well, I wasn’t the nicest person to her when she first came into the picture To be completely honest with you, I was a bitch I hated her before I’d even ot traded to New York, he tried to get o with him, but my home was here in Dallas now This is where I wanted to be

“He’s co that Zoey can’t date,” I say, and she just shakes her head as I hug Zoey close toeyes and a huge smile

“Did everything work out okay?” Zara asks, co on my new loveseat I smile when I look around because it’s decorated inI love from the throw pillows on the cream-colored couch to the furry pink leopard blanket that Zoey usually uses as a cape

“I mean, define okay?” I say and then look down at Zoey who squir her pen and book, she walks over to the loveseat and climbs up next to Zara

“I saw the video,” Zara says, looking down to make sure that Zoey doesn’t color on the cushion

“You saw the video?” Evan asks in shock, co Zara over so he can sit next to her and pull her closer to him “Why would you look at the video?”