The Flirt Rule (Lakeview State Hockey Romance #2)

He flirts with everyone. She’s the first woman who refuses to fall for it.

Rhett Callahan has one rule: keep everything light.

As Lakeview State’s charming star winger, he knows exactly how to make people smile—and exactly how to disappear before anything becomes real.

Tessa Monroe is not impressed.

She is organized, ambitious, and far too busy planning her future to become another name on Rhett’s very public list of flirtations. But when an accidental kitchen disaster forces them to work together, one harmless rumor becomes a fake relationship neither of them expected.

The rules are simple.

No real feelings.No kissing for the cameras.No letting the university turn them into a love story.

Then Rhett starts showing up when no one asks him to.

Tessa begins trusting the man beneath the easy smile.

And the relationship they were only supposed to pretend becomes the most real thing either of them has ever risked.

But Tessa has a life-changing opportunity waiting in Boston, and Rhett has spent years believing everyone eventually leaves. With distance, public attention, and their carefully planned futures closing in, they must decide whether love is another temporary arrangement—or the one rule worth breaking for good.