A Shot I Shouldn’t Take (Book #3 in The Reapers & Roses Series)

Sophie 39 stories

Story Notes

Summary

Rowan Kilter has spent his whole life living in the shadow of a name everyone remembers—and a man he’d rather forget. Declan Kilter was once hockey royalty, feared on the ice as The Killer for the New York Guardians. Off the ice, a career-ending injury shattered everything. Alcohol replaced glory. Anger replaced love. By the time Rowan was five, his mother was gone, and the violence stayed. Olivia Ashford knew Rowan long before the scars hardened him. He was her little brother’s best friend. The boy always hanging around her house. Five years younger. Untouchable. Safe. Until life proved neither of them were. They shared secrets when they were far too young to carry them—Liv’s trauma, Rowan’s broken home—and then life pulled them apart. Thirteen years later, Liv is twenty-five and barely holding herself together, attending a support group with women who share the same nightmare. Rowan is twenty, standing on the edge of everything he’s ever wanted. A roster spot with the New York Reapers. The team his father hated. Coached by his father’s greatest enemy. When Rowan has nowhere else to go, he ends up in Liv’s guest bedroom—temporary, harmless, necessary. Except nothing about them is harmless anymore. The boy she once protected is a man now. The girl he trusted is the woman he can’t stop wanting. And some shots—on the ice and off it—could cost them everything. Because this is the one shot they both know they shouldn’t take… but walking away might hurt even more.