The Pucker Next Door: a Hockey Romance

The Pucker Next Door: a Hockey Romance

Author: SARA NEY Listening Length: 8h 37m

When a squirrel chews its way through my bedroom wall, I do the first thing any single girl like me would do: run frantically out of the house to the neighbors, begging for help. I should mention that the house next door is full of hockey players. And when I lock eyes on rough and rugged Brodie Stockhausen—who happens...

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From inside my bedroom,Brodie lets out a bloodcurdling scream that could wake the dead. The kind you’d hear coming out of a teenage girl in a horror movie.

One who’s being murdered.

Then he comes bursting through the door, his large body almost plowing me down as he dramatically slams the door closed behind him, collapsing against the wall.

“I-it...it...almost…” He huffs and puffs and puffs some more, like someone seriously out of shape that’s just run up twenty flights of stairs, and I know he’s not out of shape because he’s on the hockey team of a division one university.