Lying on the ice, my entire right side throbbing with horrific pain, I hear chaos—my teammates yelling, refs' whistles blowing, grunts, the sounds of flesh smacking against flesh, but my eyes are screwed shut, and when I try to move, even a tiny bit, something stabs through me like a thousand sharp knives.
"Mick," Deke's voice comes to me and I open one eye to see his face hovering over mine, worry playing all over his bloody nose and the eye he must have just blackened against Romero's fist. It’s strange, but mostly what I’m thinking is that he shouldn’t have taken his helmet off to fight. "You're going to be okay."
I grit my teeth as the team doctor kneels beside me and starts flashing his penlight in my eyes. "Not this time, man. I don't think I'm going to be okay this time."
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Also by Selena Laurence
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Camouflaged (Hiding From Love 1)
Hidden (Hiding From Love 2)
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Buried (Hiding From Love 4)
About the Author
Selena is an award-winning, USA TODAY bestselling author of Happily Ever Afters. She writes nonfiction on Medium as SE Reed. She’s a coffee lover and dog-wrangler who lives in the mountains of Colorado with her husband and children. Her favorite city is Edinburgh, her favorite color is purple, and her favorite shoes are Converse.
Selena’s books have won the national Reader’s Crown award, the Bookseller’s Best award, the I Heart Indie award, and finaled in the Award of Excellence, the Holt Medallion award, the Kindle Book Review award, and the InD’tale awards.
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