“You know how I am.” I push my hand through my messy hair. “I overthink everything, and I want to make sure this isn’t going to be a failure for either of us. I love you, Carson. I don’t want to mess that up.” I can hear the sadness in my voice.
“I love you too and that means I’m supposed to love your bad habits, always find you beautiful, and work through whatever issues come up, right? You’re the only person I’d do all that stuff for, so if you mess up, it’ll be okay. I’ll mess up too.”
“How about everytime you mess up, you have to buy me a new pair of shoes? That way you have a reminder. If I mess up, I’ll get you something that you like.” I love how he brings a smile to my face.
“I like you, that count? You mess up and I get you?”
“I’m non-refundable and you can’t return me.” I wink at him.
“I wouldn’t want to return you because then I might lose myself again.”
“I would never let that happen. We were meant to find each other.” I kiss his lips. It’s meant to be a soft, innocent kiss, but it never seems to be that way with Carson. I pull back before we forget that there’s still more boxes to unpack. “Even if you have a small closet,” I try to distract him.
“Better that it’s my closet that’s small and not me. Wouldn’t you agree?” he tosses me over his shoulder. I squeal with laughter as he throws me on the bed, helping me forget about anything else but him. My Carson Lee.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our readers for their excitement and love for our new series.
A huge thanks goes to our betas, Andrekia, Beth, and Heidi for taking time out of your schedules to read this book and provide great feedback.
We would like to thank Bailey Ardisone for taking the time to create an awesome cover for us.
We would like to thank Kathy Krick for editing our book for us.
About the Authors
Lindsay Paige is a romance author from North Carolina who has published eight books on her own. She is a huge hockey fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins and loves to play tennis. When not writing, Lindsay is focused on completing college.
Mary Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois, but currently lives in West Virginia. She is an avid reader, co-founder of Book Nerds Across America, and author of the Ice series, Always Forever, and The Hockey Tutor. She goes nowhere without her cell phone or Kindle. Mary loves anything to do with Chicago Blackhawks, Patrick Sharp, or is hockey related!!
Despite their love for different teams and players, Lindsay and Mary write hockey romances to vicariously live through their characters and their experiences with these hot hockey players. Together, they have also written The Penalty Kill Trilogy.
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Let’s Be Crazy
Coming January 10, 2014
Oh Captain, My Captain presents Ashton Campbell of the Utah Bears.
Ashton Campbell balances his time between hockey and his young son, Reed. He can’t manage to find anyone good enough to be introduced into his little family, not that he spends a lot of time looking. As soon as he lays eyes on the beautiful, yet annoyed fan, he knows he needs at least one date with her, but he has to convince her to say yes first.
Lexie Allen’s life revolves around her daughter, Sadie. She has kept her focus only on her since the death of her husband in Iraq. She never worried about having a personal relationship with another man again. The only luxury she holds onto is her love of hockey, which doesn’t include the Utah Bears.
Ashton goes after what he wants and what he wants is Lexie. She, on the other hand, has to realize that sometimes, you have to be a little crazy to earn a happily ever after.
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