Rival Hearts 🏈 Excerpt Reveal

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𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 by Maggie Rawdon is releasing February 29th!!! Get a sneak peek inside now!

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EXCERPT:

“Do you ever still think about it? That summer?” he asks.

“Sometimes.” I shrug, trying to be noncommittal.

His hands slide onto the counter on either side of me, and he leans down. I close my eyes because I can’t look at him. I’m trying to think unsexy things. Find my spine and remember all the reasons I hate him. But right now, I’m just glad he didn’t go home with her. Happy he had dessert with me. That he’s smiling at me. Thinking about me.

“And is it still my voice you hear talking you through it?”

“Yes.” The word’s out before I can stop it.

Damn.

“I mean… it was back then. Not now.” I clear my throat and try to stand a little taller, the heat burning its way up my cheeks and down my neck until I can even see the flush spreading over my chest.

“Definitely not now.” I can hear the amusement in his voice, and when I look up, his eyes are burning with the kind of intensity I haven’t seen in someone in years. The kind that’s going to take me under. I have to regain control here, or this is going to spiral out.

“We should talk about what other things we can work on with the list. What else you might be able to do this week. Try to set you up on a different date.”

His eyes search mine for a moment, but he doesn’t say anything.

“The list is important,” I reiterate.

“I like your list, Madness.” Hearing him call me the nickname he used to that summer does something for me that it shouldn’t. “I’ll jump through all the hoops you want me to.” He closes the distance between us, so close his lips are at my ear, and his body ghosts over mine. “But you should know I have ulterior motives. There’s only one thing I want.”

Blurb:

Pro football might see me as their favorite underdog, but Madison Westfield would rather see me six feet under.

My ex-best friend’s little sister has every reason to hate me.

I took her boyfriend’s spot on this team, her brother might lose his too, and our short-lived engagement years ago is part of the reason our families are locked in a grudge match that has the whole league on edge.

Ruining me would fix most of her problems, but she’s stuck trying to work a PR miracle with my career instead.

Making my way through her build-a-better-image checklist is the kind of torture I’ll gladly sign up for, especially if I get to help her prove everyone wrong.

But it means we’re spending a lot of time alone together, and when it comes to Madison, I’ll take any chance she gives me.

Even if it means there’s hell to pay—on and off the field.

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