Tape to Tape, Venom # 3
V.L. Locey
M/F Erotic Hockey Romance
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Blurb:
Venom defensive coach Dot "The Shadow" West has made a
nice life for herself. She's found a new position on an up-and-coming
women's professional hockey team, her daughter is thriving, she gets along well
with her fellow coaches and her players admire and respect her. She's proud to
have accomplished so much by herself. Everything is running smoothly in her
life with no help from anyone, thank you very much.
Sadly, there's one annoying glitch in Dot's new life, and it's
in the form of good-looking Theo Grier, former Wildcat goalie and co-host of a
controversial sports talk radio show based in Philadelphia, home of the Venom.
When Dot loses her cool and calls in to spar with Theo on the air her
structured and solitary existence takes a sudden unexpected turn. Before she
can hip check the smug fool out of her life she somehow ends up working with
him on a new talk radio sports program.
Can she defend her heart against the unwanted feelings Theo is
stirring up? Or will she continue to guard herself, and her past decisions,
against the offensive moves being made by the ex-goalie? The only man to ignite
her passions - and ire - in years?
Can she defend her heart against
the unwanted feelings Theo is stirring up? Or will she continue to guard
herself, and her past decisions, against the offensive moves being made by the
ex-goalie? The only man to ignite her passions - and ire - in years?
Excerpt:
"Security lets you
down here?" I asked.
"I'm an old 'Cat. They
love me down here," he informed me. I walked past him and began to pull on
a mitten. "I thought maybe we could grab a cup of coffee and discuss the
show next Monday." That made me pause for a scant moment but just for a
moment. I kept walking and dressing. Theo caught up to me with ease. His legs
were as long as a thoroughbred's. "Did you hear me?"
"Yes, I heard you. I
then chose to ignore you." I wrapped a red and black scarf around my neck,
nodded at Eddie the security guard stationed by the staff/players entrance, and
then stepped out into a freezing cold Philadelphia night.
"You plan on treating
me this coldly forever?" Theo asked as I slid past him. If he thought
holding the door open for me would chill me out, he was sorely mistaken.
"Probably," I
said with my eyes locked on my blue Honda Pilot. "My grandmother always
said that the best way to deal with a wart was to freeze it."
"Ouch," Theo
chuckled while keeping up with my pace easily. Each breath out clouded in front
of my face. "I hope I'm just a finger wart and not an anal wart."
"Oh, you're an anal
wart. One of the biggest ones that I have ever had the misfortune to encounter,"
I parried as my Honda got closer and closer. Theo jumped ahead of me to bar my
path. I gave him a lethal glare. He smiled and held out his hand. I eyed it
warily as if it were an asp ready to strike.
"Coach West, I think
we need to start over," Theo said as his hand hung in the cold air. I
raised my eyes from his big hand to his face. Then I gave him a strong
"Please spare me" look. The man didn't have the sense to stop trying
to be sexy. A gust right off an iceberg howled around the Houseman, lifting Theo's
white scarf high into the air behind him. "It's a pleasure to meet you in
person, Coach West. I'm Theo Grier, ex-goalie and world's largest walking anal
wart."
I snorted and glanced up at
the LED parking lot light wobbling overhead.
"Could that have been
a smile I saw on 'The Shadow's' face?" Theo asked. I rolled my eyes then
shook my head.
"It was a tiny
sneeze."
"Right, a
sneeze," he said with just a hint of skepticism. "Maybe you should
shake my hand so you can get out of this nasty cold weather. A hot cup of
coffee at the Black Boar Bar & Grill might be just what you need to help
thaw out, Coach West."
"For your information,
Mr. Grier, I do not need to thaw out. I'm quite comfortable, toasty warm, hot
even," I replied keeping my arms crossed over my chest.
"Yes, that you
are," Theo said in a vibrating voice that had dropped just a smidgeon.
There was something about his voice, the way he held himself, and that damned
large hand of his still waiting for mine that made me feel a trifle too warm
inside my coat.
"Flattery will get you
nowhere, Mr. Grier." I pushed around him.
"How about honesty
then," he said and then planted his massive self in front of me once
again.
"You're persistent,
I'll give you that," I sighed.
"When I see something
I want, I go after it."
"And you want
me?" I asked.
"Yeah, I want you to
shake my hand and join me for coffee," he countered smoothly. I studied
his face then with a huff extended my hand, all toasty warm in my mitten, to
him. His fingers curled around mine, making my hand glow like a red coal in a
fire pit. We shook slowly, one could have said sensuously, but handshakes with
mittens blocking the skin-to-skin can't be sensual, can they?
V.L.
Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, reading and writing lusty tales,
Greek mythology, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not
necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter,
one dog, two cats, a flock of assorted domestic fowl, and two Jersey steers.
When
not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in
the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand. She can
also be found online on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and GoodReads.
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