The Pucking Bet
A J Summers
It was supposed to be simple.
Fake date campus hockey royalty to make my long-time crush look my way.
Enter Kieran O’Connor—star winger and campus legend.
Devastating good looks. Cocky dialed to eleven. The kind of guy who always gets what he wants.
He needs help passing a class. I need a fake boyfriend.
We make a deal.
I write the rules in permanent marker: no touching, no kissing, no feelings.
But Kieran O’Connor doesn’t do rules.
His grin is a blade.
His hands? Pure trouble.
Somewhere between late-night problem sets and his number stretched across my shoulders, I forget we’re pretending.
Then I find out the truth.
The bet he agreed to.
Make the tutor fall for the golden boy.
He thought it was a game.
He didn’t think he’d get burned.
And if Kieran O’Connor wants me back,
he’ll have to skate through everything he set on fire —
and prove he knows how to earn what he broke.
A fake dating, college hockey romance where the most wanted man on campus falls first—and falls hard—for the underestimated girl who refuses to be anyone’s prize.
