Last Boy 🏒 Excerpt Reveal

🏒𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐏𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋🏒

𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐲by Hannah Gray is releasing June 13th!! This is an enemies to lovers, childhood friends, forced proximity, hockey romance. Take a peek inside!

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EXCERPT:

“Let me take you home, Poppy.” He says softly. “I know you hate me. I get it. But I just want to make sure you get home safe.” His head tilts slightly. “Let me do that, please.”

“No,” I say, shaking my head, though I can’t stop my hard exterior from melting the slightest bit. “I don’t want to go anywhere with you.”

“I can’t just leave you here, Pop.” He drawls the words so smoothly, and my heart races. It’s like I’m seeing the old Walker. My Walker.

My heart and my head are so confused. I know I should push him backward and not fall for his charm. But God, he makes it so hard. And when his hand reaches for me, brushes a strand of loose hair from my cheek, tucking it behind my ear, I’m completely frozen. I should get up and run away. Yet, instead, I melt to the slightest touch. My breath hitches, and I wait to see what he’ll do next.

Crouching down so that he’s at eye level with me, his gaze flicks to my lips. If he kissed me right now…I’m not sure if I could resist it. I know it wouldn’t be the right thing to do, but I’ve wanted him for so long.

Waited for him for so long.

His head dips closer, and on instinct, my eyes flutter a few times before closing. My heart pumps so hard that I hear it in my ears as I wait for his kiss. My first kiss ever. And just when I think he’s going to kiss me, his hands slide to my waist, and he quickly throws me over his shoulder before standing up.

Walking toward his truck, it takes me a few seconds to realize what is happening. But when I do…I’m pissed off. “You…you—” I start to growl through gritted teeth.

“Got you all fucking hot and bothered just so that I could get you in my truck without getting punched in the dick?” I can hear the smirk in his voice. “Yeah, Poppyseed. I sure did.”

Pulling the door open, he acts like my body flailing as I fight him is nothing. Quickly, he drops me down in the seat. “Poppy, Poppy, Poppy,” he drawls slowly. “You should know better. You really think I’d kiss you after all you’ve done?”

“I don’t want to kiss you, prick.” I hiss. “You’re the last person I’d ever want to kiss!”

His smirk only deepens, clearly amused and looking at me like a mockery. “When your lips parted, and your eyes shut…that told me otherwise.” Pulling the seatbelt around me, his hand brushes my thigh as he secures it. And damnit if I don’t feel another lightning bolt shoot right between my legs. “Nice gothic nails to match your soul.’’

“Fuck off,” I hiss.

“Know this, Poppyseed. When it comes to me, you won’t win. You won’t win the battles, and you sure as hell won’t be winning any wars.” Patting his hand on my head, he taps his finger on my nose. “Remember that.”

As he closes the door and walks around to the driver’s side, I’m ashamed of myself for being so pathetic tonight. I gave him the power and let him see the effects he still has on me.

But he’s wrong about one thing. I may have lost this battle. But I’m sure as hell going to win the war.

Blurb:

I never looked back the day I left Sunset Drive. If I did, I knew that I would never leave the hellhole I had grown to despise, a place I began plotting my escape from as a child. The only difference was that I always thought she’d be by my side on the day I was finally free.

The day I left it all behind was the day my hatred for the entire Wilson family was born. Poppy included. After all, she had lied to the police just to protect her monstrous father after he got my parents killed. From that day forward, I decided she needed to be dead to me. They all did. The only thing that mattered from then on was the one thing that had never let me down. Hockey.

She may haunt me in my dreams during those three years we were apart, but that was nothing compared to now when I’m forced to see her at Brooks University. Slowly, my grip on everything else in my life begins to slip away as she becomes the only thing that matters. And when I find her in an alleyway, battered and bruised from two attackers who vow to return for her…I decide right then that I am going to protect her at all costs.

But protecting her means making a deal with the devil, also known as my rich uncle. A deal that will mean I will never get the chance to spend forever with the only girl I’ve ever loved. Poppy Wilson.

It’s a high price to pay, but when it comes to her safety, I have no limits.

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