What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate, no matter how hard that makes things.<\/p>\n
But there’s nothing in the rulebook that says I can’t be friends with a woman. And I won’t lie, my new classmate Demi Davis is one cool chick. Her smart mouth is hot as hell, and so is the rest of her, but the fact that she’s got a boyfriend eliminates the temptation to touch her.<\/p>\n
Except three months into our friendship, Demi is single and looking for a rebound.<\/p>\n
And she’s making a play for me.<\/p>\n
Avoiding her is impossible. We’re paired up on a yearlong school project, but I’m confident I can resist her. We’d never work, anyway. Our backgrounds are too different, our goals aren’t aligned, and her parents hate my guts.<\/p>\n
Hooking up is a very bad idea. Now I just have to convince my body, and my heart.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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