Puck Love Reunited - Book 2 in the Minnesota Ice Series

Cody“For fuck’s sake.” I mutter as I try to jam my kit into my bag. It’s the same bag I use all the time for travel, and the very same bag that I’ve used for the last few years so why the hell isn’t it going right this morning?Right, you know why? Because I still haven’t heard from Immi. It’s been a long fucking four weeks and I’ve not had a response to any of my messages and she keeps avoiding my calls. I’m going crazy here and my heart is hanging on a thread.The loss and loneliness are beyond anything I’ve ever felt before. Literally, I feel torn up and damaged. I have even cried. Yeah, that’s right. Cody Brannigan the golden boy of NHL has been ugly crying. No one has seen it, naturally. I tend to do it at night when I’m laying in a lonely hotel room or when I’m back home alone in my bed.If you ever told me someone could die of a broken heart a few months ago, I’d have laughed in your face. Trust me, I think this is what is happening to me. I can’t hardly eat; my game is off, a

CodyI couldn’t resist driving past where her folks live, I have to see her even if she doesn’t want to see me. My heart has never hurt before, never like this in any case. Sure, when I was a kid and our pet dog passed away, I was beside myself. He and I were buddies, like best buddies and my folks had brought Luka home when he was just twelve weeks old, and I was around the age of two.Luka and I had formed a bond from an early age and that dog was my entire life. Everywhere I went he came with me except to the rink. He slept with me at night on my bed and boy could that dog snore. Dad used to say we were inseparable and for the most part we were. It wrenched my heart out when I lost him, and it took me a long time to get over the loss of him.Some days, it still gets to me. You can’t love an animal like Luka the way I did and not have shit days over his loss even seven years on. So, when I say my heart is shattered over Immi, trust me it seriously is.I’ve parked up opposite her hou

CodyI’m just about to board the flight and coach is scowling at me, yeah, he’s been doing a lot of that lately. I promise I’m going to try to clean my ice act up, this is not a game I want to throw away because I’m hurting and angry inside. There’s too much hanging in the balance. If we don’t make it through this game as winners, then we’re out of the cup final and that is definitely not something I want hanging over my head.“Sorry coach. Had something to do.” I tell him.“You are walking a thin line, Brannigan.” He tells me as I pass him and go take my seat at the back. Atlas, Calli and Nolan are already in their seats and the rest of the team. As usual it’s pretty raucous, everyone gets hyper excited before a game. We’ll land in Winnipeg around an hour and twenty minutes after take-off, for once it’s not a long flight.Thankfully, coach hasn’t imposed a training session tonight. Sometimes, he wants us to dump our stuff at the hotel then get straight to the rink. It can be exhausti

CodyThankfully, we don’t have the night to be on the rink. For once, coach has decided we could do with some rest since we’ve been playing our games back-to-back it seems, sure we have had a few down days here and there but trust me, going for the Stanley Cup is no walk in the park.I lay on the hotel room bed, it’s a king size and even though I’m a big guy, there’s still plenty of room. It feels empty without Immi by myside. Will I get used to this? I don’t ever think I will, but I am slightly lifted by the fact that in a couple of weeks I’ll be standing close to her at the restaurant opening. Or maybe she just wants me there to bring in the numbers and to enhance the following and social media following.Nah, not Immi, she’s better than that. She must have asked me because she wants to see me and misses me too. I let my mind wander to her beautiful, arresting smile, the way her eyes crinkle when she laughs and that little piglet snort thing she has going on when she is in hysterics

Cody It was a smooth ride from the hotel to the ice rink and yes, I did catch all the people out front some with signs saying, Brannigan do the right thing and put a ring on Luna’s finger and baby daddy be there. Some had other shit written on them. I just don’t need this stress to be honest. Why don’t people get that Luna, and I are not nor never will be a couple? Why can’t they just leave me alone? What like I’m the only guy in the world who has got a girl pregnant and isn’t going to marry her. It’s not like it was my intention and she did tell me she was clean and on the pill.So, either she was lying to try to trap me, or we were just unlucky as hell. I mean, now I’ve seen the lengths Luna is going to, to derail me and make me out as the bad guy, I wouldn’t put it passed her to have lied to me. In any case, we’ll never know. What has happened has happened and I have to live with it. But trying to bad mouth me and then trying to get total strangers involved by her constant bullshi