Unexpectedly Expecting: A Surprise Baby Hockey Romance
By Riley Keenan
I have exactly two things going for me right now: eleven dollars in my checking account, and the audacity to track down a professional hockey player at his practice rink to inform him that our one-night blizzard mistake now requires prenatal vitamins.
Silas doesn't do chaos. He color-codes his meals. And when I show up pregnant at his practice facility, he reacts with all the warmth and emotional range of a man who has just been told his car is being towed.
Silas finds out the paint fumes ...
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I have exactly two things going for me right now: eleven dollars in my checking account, and the audacity to track down a professional hockey player at his practice rink to inform him that our one-night blizzard mistake now requires prenatal vitamins.
Silas doesn't do chaos. He color-codes his meals. And when I show up pregnant at his practice facility, he reacts with all the warmth and emotional range of a man who has just been told his car is being towed.
Silas finds out the paint fumes from my job are hazardous for the baby, and suddenly ‘Mr. I don't do feelings’ has strong opinions.
Since I can't exactly pay rent with artistic integrity, he proposes the most bonkers solution imaginable: I move into his penthouse, as a roommate. He actually uses the phrase "protecting my investment" with a straight face, and I'm too nauseous and too broke to say no.
So now I'm living with a man who panics when I leave a coffee ring on his counter, while I'm smuggling throw pillows and drop cloths into his sterile monument to emotional avoidance. He hovers over me like I'm a soufflé that might collapse. I reorganize his fridge out of spite. He starts eating dinner with me anyway.
The thing is, underneath all that rigid control is someone who's convinced he ruins everything he touches. And underneath all my loud, paint-splattered bravado is a woman who's never had someone fight this hard to stay close. He's infuriating and gentle and so scared of wanting this that it makes my chest ache.
I came here for a co-parenting agreement. I didn't plan on falling for the goalie.
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