Mr. Hat Trick

by Ainsley Booth

  Mr. Hat Trick

  Ainsley Booth

  Sadie Haller

  Contents

  The Frisky Beavers Series

  About This Book

  Foreword

  1. Sasha

  2. Tate

  3. Sasha

  4. Tate

  5. Sasha

  6. Tate

  7. Sasha

  8. Tate

  9. Sasha

  10. Tate

  11. Sasha

  12. Tate

  13. Sasha

  14. Tate

  15. Sasha

  16. Tate

  17. Sasha

  18. Tate

  19. Sasha

  20. Tate

  21. Sasha

  22. Tate

  23. Sasha

  24. Tate

  25. Sasha

  26. Tate

  27. Sasha

  28. Tate

  29. Sasha

  30. Tate

  31. Sasha

  32. Tate

  33. Sasha

  34. Tate

  35. Sasha

  36. Tate

  37. Sasha

  38. Tate

  39. Sasha

  40. Tate

  41. Sasha

  42. Tate

  43. Sasha

  44. Tate

  45. Sasha

  Epilogue

  The Frisky Beavers Series

  Prime Minister

  Dr. Bad Boy

  Full Mountie

  Mr. Hat Trick

  Bull of the Woods

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  Each book in this series is a standalone romance about a different couple

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  Visit www.friskybeavers.com for all links

  Dedication

  For our Frisky Beavers

  About This Book

  Sasha:

  He’s a player. End of story.

  I’m not interested.

  * * *

  Tate:

  Something about her lights me up inside. Makes me reckless.

  So what if she doesn’t like me?

  I like her—a lot.

  And once I turn on the charm, she doesn’t stand a chance.

  * * *

  Sasha:

  Fine. Maybe we can use each other for sex.

  And the occasional late night conversation that nobody else will understand. That doesn’t mean anything…

  THE PLAY-BY-PLAY:

  They don’t like each other, but they both like sex—and watching

  They have more in common with each other than they want to admit

  Sometimes the best fuck buddies are friends, too

  THE SCORE:

  This is a hockey romance heavy on body-checking and double entendres, and light on ice-time. Let’s call it hockey-adjacent. We make up for that with angsty fighting, happy screwing, and a love story so secret even the main characters don’t see it coming.

  Foreword

  This book is a work of fiction, spun from our filthy imaginations. Some of the places and events happening in the background may seem familiar, but we promise any similarities to real people or national sports leagues are entirely coincidental.

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  For purposes of keeping this story focused on the heat of a romance, we’ve taken some serious liberties with the details of professional hockey, academia, and the ins-and-outs of starting a new business. In exchange for those oversights, we promise scandalous sex acts and a very Canadian happy-ever-after ending.

  1

  Sasha

  end of August

  Ottawa

  A sticky, oppressive heat wave has taken hold of the city. Being outside for any length of time is cruel, and I’ve just been dumped two blocks from my apartment by a cabbie who definitely did not get a tip.

  There’s a very real chance I might wilt before I get home. I set my sights on the coffee shop ahead, because an iced latte just my might save my life.

  At least I’m done people-ing for the day. I’ve just come from the hospital where all of my friends had gathered to welcome into the world a brand-new baby boy.

  All of my friends except one, not that Tate Nilsson is my friend. But he’s been a pretty constant part of our social circle for the last year, and yet when the telephone tree spread the news that Violet was in labour, he was nowhere to be found.

  So when I pull open the door to the coffee shop and find him taking a selfie with two teenage girls—gross—I’m totally ready to lay a strip into him. Who the hell does he think he is?

  An NHL All-Star, the captain of the Ottawa Senators, and unrepentant, self-described manwhore, that’s who.

  But when he follows me outside, he says the one thing that could soften my heart towards him.

  “I was traded an hour ago to the Vancouver Lumberjacks.”

  There aren’t many excuses that would have me feeling sorry for him, but no wonder he’s trying to assuage his stupid male ego by taking pictures with fans—he’s just been dealt a career gut punch.

  This is not a conversation to be had in public.

  You don’t need to have it at all. Except I do. I’m not going to leave him to his own devices to deal with this. If I do that, he’ll probably wind up sleeping with someone who’s bad news, or worse.

  I grab his hand—ignoring how good it feels, because gross—and drag him around the corner to my apartment building.

  He blessedly stays quiet. He’s not normally a private person, but I guess making a scene on a day like today might not be great for his image.

  And I’m so not down for being linked to his over-the-top public persona.

  At all.

  My kindness has limits, and they’re bound by the gossip blogs on one side and sports talk radio on the other.

  I curl up in my favourite chair and Tate takes the couch.

  When he doesn’t say anything, I decide to storm ahead. That’s kind of my thing in general. “The Lumberjacks?” We were literally just with the owner of the Lumberjacks at my best friend Ellie’s wedding in June. I know business is a whole separate thing, but that feels kind of weird. “That’s Jack Benton’s team. Did you know this was coming at the wedding?”

  He shakes his head. “No clue. And he’d already sold the team. This decision was made quite recently, too. It’s a long, complicated, stupid story.”

  “When do you go?”

  “Soon. I need to find a place to stay, because I won’t like whatever hotel the team has arranged. I have a month before training starts, but I want to find a house.”

  “Do you need help with that? Maybe you could stay at Gavin’s place.” I snap my fingers together. “No, you’ll want to be closer to the arena, right?”

  “Sasha.”

  “Of course, you won’t want to buy right away, so maybe we can find you a sublet.”

  “Sasha.”

  “And—”

  “Hey, Hot Stuff, settle down for a second. I don’t need you to play real estate agent for me, but I appreciate the offer of help.”

  My mouth drops open. Hot Stuff? And he’s clearly not coping well with this, of course he needs my help.

  “What I really needed was someone to hear it from me first. To say it out loud. I’m being traded. Now that I’ve done that, I can move forward. It’ll be fine.”

  Oh, maybe he doesn’t need my help. Damn it. I’m good at being helpful. I’m less good with sticky emotions. “Right.”

  After a long stretch of silence, he gives me a sideways glance. “Sorry for calling you Hot Stuff.”

  “It’s better than calling me a bitch.” Which he almost did when I snapped at him about hanging on the teenagers.

  “I stopped myself.”

  “It was i
n your head, though.”

  “Not really. No, seriously, I don’t think you’re…Jesus, Sasha, I promise you I don’t think you’re a bitch, not in a bad way. I think you’re made of steel and you fucking turn me on like crazy when you pop your claws out.”

  I open my mouth to snap at him again, then stop. Wait. What?

  My eyes bug out of my head. I turn Tate on? Tate, who goes to sex clubs and lounges like a king. Tate, who probably picks up puck bunnies by the half-dozen for adorable bunny orgies. He thinks I’m made of steel?

  I turn him on?

  We exchange wordless looks, because seriously, what the fuck?

  But he recovers sooner. “Ignore me. I tend to just say shit like that.”

  That’s a lie. He’s totally lying, I can see it on his face. And in that moment, a few things slam together.

  The memory of sitting next to Tate on a couch in Max’s basement for the kinky holiday play party. What that felt like, the sexuality that radiated off of him.

  My general dislike of everything that he is, but my personal, grudging like for who he is. I’ve never had a hate fuck, because principles and all that, but…Tate could be that guy. Check off that fantasy.

  Add in the fact that he’s leaving the city, and I hear myself offer him a single night before I can stop the words from sliding out. “One night.”

  He does a double take, because really, who saw that coming? Not me. But his double take comes with a side of guarded interest. “Pardon?”

  Oh yeah, hockey boy. I glance out the window and school my features. Can’t be too excited about this. I’m a bitch, after all. And a whole night is excessive. “One afternoon.”

  “I don’t follow.”

  If he’s going to play hard to get, I’m out. “Never mind.”

  He grins. Right, he likes the claws. And he’s not playing hard to get any longer. “You’re talking about sex? I’m in.”

  I hold up my finger. “I want it officially noted that I still don’t like you.”

  “Noted.”

  “And you’re okay with that?”

  “Hot Stuff, I’m more than okay with that. If you want to tell me that you hate me while I’m balls deep inside you, you’ll feel just how much I don’t mind that kind of smack talk.”

  “This is a terrible idea,” I whisper.

  He stands up and peels off his t-shirt.

  Okay, no, it’s a crazy good idea. I point toward my bedroom. “Just this one time, you understand?”

  “Perfectly.” He gives me a wicked, wolfish grin that lights up his eyes. We definitely don’t need to exchange any lingering looks. I drop my gaze to his body instead. Good lord, he’s unreal. His torso is all cut lines and hard ridges. When he turns around, his back is more of the same sculpted perfection, and my tongue slides out of my mouth all on its own.

  I want to lick him.

  I want to bite him.

  I want to ride him hard and shake this secret crush I’ve been harbouring since Christmas, when all those muscles kept shifting next to me on a couch as we watched people get flogged at a kink party.

  And more than anything, I want to get up close and personal with the hard, straining bulge I notice out of the corner of my eye.

  “Where do you want me?” he drawls as he stops beside the bed. “And what do you want to do?”

  “That’s good,” I say, my heart hammering in my throat. I stop a few feet back and look at him again. Tate is not my type. He’s big and brawny and full of ego. I bet he doesn’t have a sensitive bone in his entire body. “And I want to have sex.”

  “That’s a big category of activity.”

  Right. He’s into some kinky shit. “Uh, just sex. But nothing boring. I like…athletic sex.”

  His eyes darken. “Got it. Interesting, vigorous fucking.”

  That sounds perfect. I lick my lips, and he doesn’t miss it.

  “You want a taste of something, Sasha?”

  Dirty, twisted heat blooms low in my belly. “Maybe.”

  I get another wolfish grin at that, and he unbuttons his cargo shorts. They drop to the floor, and he steps out of them. Long, solid legs. The muscles of his thighs are clearly defined even under a light, golden dusting of hair.

  And as I drag my gaze up his body, there’s that bulge again, obscenely stretching out the front of grey boxer briefs.

  I lick my lips. Again.

  He groans. “Do that again on your knees.”

  I’m not going to pretend I don’t want that as much as he does. I drop in front of him, and he helps me tug his waistband down.

  His cock is hard and heavy already, a straining weight in my hand as I give him a first squeeze. What do you like, Tate?

  Luckily for me, he’s not shy about vocalizing anything.

  “Yeah, hold me nice and tight. Gah. Just like that. Fucking hell, Sasha. Stop licking your lips unless they’re against my dick.” He chuckles as I do it again, but seriously, I’m excited about tasting him.

  That’s kind of different.

  I like sex as much as the next person, but I tend to be kind of bossy. The best sex I’ve ever had has been when I’m in charge and the person I’m with is a quick study.

  I don’t remember the last time I wanted like this. Wanted a cock in my mouth, hands in my hair. Maybe some thrusting I don’t expect… And now my mouth is watering again.

  I don’t test his limits. I lean in and give him that lick instead, wide and wet, all the way around the head of his shaft. He tastes clean and masculine, and I breathe in the scent of his skin. It’s always good when you like the smell of a person, and the faint edge of musk and heat rising from his body swirls into my brain in a yummy way.

  I wrap my fist around his heavy length and stroke him against my parted lips. I bring him into my mouth, one slow jerk at a time, until I’ve enveloped the thick head of his dick with my lips.

  Then I swallow.

  He shouts in surprise, and his hands tangle in my hair.

  I work my tongue against the underneath of his erection, tasting him as my hand moves faster, slicked now with my spit. I jack and suck him at the same time, bumping my lips into my fingers in a way that I know makes him feel like the king of the world.

  It’s almost predictable how he starts groaning the dirty talk to me. “Take it all. Yeah, just like that. Your mouth is so fucking hot. You’re a good cocksucker, aren’t you? Fucking full of surprises, Sasha. Love that. Ah, fuck yeah. Your tongue. So…good…” But then he surprises me. “Fuck. Slow down, tiger. Make this last. I gotta get my mouth on you. Fuck.”

  He hisses and fists his hand tight in the loose strands of my hair, then he growls an apology before gathering it up all up in a ponytail, which he uses to tug me back.

  My lips slide off him with a wet pop, and I chase a bead of pre-come that forms at his slit as he holds me a few inches away from his cock. “Why’d you stop me?” I whisper playfully, batting my eyelashes up at him.

  “You want my come in your mouth?”

  Yes. “Sure.”

  He smirks down at me. “Maybe later. Up.”

  Oh, he’s so bossy. I roll my eyes as I stand, and he lets go of my hair, only to pull me close. His mouth covers mine, going from zero to kisses-that-taste-like-cock-sixty in a heartbeat. He presses hard into my mouth, his tongue fucking against mine. Tasting me where I’ve just tasted him, where I’ve swallowed his pre-come. I can still feel where his cock bumped against the top of my mouth, against my tongue, and now he’s there too, savagely marking those same spots with rough licks that make me squirm and want to climb up his body so he can fuck my pussy, too.

  “Condoms,” I breathe as I break away. “Bedside table.”

  “Excellent.” He pushes me onto the bed and yanks the drawer open. He grabs the box and rains a handful of condoms down on my belly. “That’ll get us started.”

  He stands at the side of the bed for a moment, looking down at me with a fondly dirty smirk on his face. His cock is still hard, standing obsce
nely out from his body, and the whole scene makes me hot and achy. His eyes darken as he reaches for the button on my shorts. “Time for you to get naked.”

  I couldn’t agree more. I shiver as he strips me. Panties go with the shorts, and his eyes hood as he leans in and presses a hot, wet kiss to the bare skin of my mound.

  “You are so fucking hot,” he whispers, his breath licking against my skin. “From the inside out, you’re full of surprises.”

  He works his way up my torso, pushing up my shirt with each hungry, pulling kiss. He sucks at the skin on my belly until I arch beneath him, then he bares more and more of me until my shirt is gone and then his mouth is on my breasts, biting at my bra and sucking on my nipples through the silk.

  “Rip the bra and I’ll kill you,” I whisper.

  He chuckles. “Noted.”

  “I’m serious.”

  “I get that.” Bracing one hand beside my head, he levers up with ease, and smiles down at me. “Like I said, you being a spitfire turns me on.”

  “Tate—” I cut myself off, and he makes an approving sound. He holds my gaze, and slowly I find myself melting for him. I don’t want to be an ice queen today. Although spitfire has a nice ring to it. I give him a slow, real smile. “It’s a front clasp. Just FYI.”