Chapter 1: How To Act Professionally Unwell

RAE“Merry Christmas!” Mandy exclaimed as soon as the call connected and I huffed in response.My backpack weighed me down. Yet I couldn’t die until I was made senior features producer at the TV station I worked for. Imagine being this close to beating Jennifer West and then losing to her because I decided to believe the internet. The article online had said, ‘Ten most exciting things to do in the Adirondacks before you die.’But then it was more like ‘Ten most exciting ways to kill yourself before your time.’ It definitely downplayed the difficulty and distance. If I knew better, I would have joined a group while the offer was still open.“There’s really nothing merry about my current situation,” I told her after chugging from my flask of hot chocolate.“Huh,” Mandy said, and I heard her feet shuffling in the background. “Where are you?”“Storm Creek, the town you exiled me to, remember?” I stuck the flask back in my backpack and continued hiking through snow.It was almost midnight

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Chapter 2: How To Unknowingly Trade Your Sanity

RAE“I will never return and that’s final,” I said, sitting across from Mandy on her office desk. Her fingers tapped the mahogany wood with unease. “I beg of you—““Stop.” I shot to my feet and paced in circles.After what I did, I couldn’t bear another second in that town. I had taken the next flight back to LA, but even the distance between us was laughing in my face now. It’s been a few days, but every time I slept, I saw his handsome face. My lips tingled with the memory of his kisses. I was repulsed and damningly attracted at the same time because no one had ever made me feel wanted. Not even my own parents or my mate. But he did.Malachar saw through me. He played the right cards to deceive me into his bed. If his wallet hadn’t slipped off the table when it did, I would have never discovered his government ID. I would’ve abandoned everything for him without hesitating.“Earth to Rachel?”I held my pointer finger out and faced her. “You’re the one on another planet. Did you thin

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Chapter 3: How To Want Your Enemy

MALACHARThree Weeks Later…The defenseman wanted me gone. I twisted with the puck in my possession, then tossed it back to Sky, who I could smell behind me at exactly ten feet. I stickhandled past the defenseman afterwards. He wasn’t quick enough to notice the puck already back in my possession. “How—cap, what the fuck?” Ryan Walter ripped off his helmet as soon as I scored. “Coach!”“Stetson isn’t here to baby your ass. Grow up,” Sky, the left wing, told him, chuckling while following me.Saturday was scrimmage and we’d been at it for almost two hours. I didn’t need practice to understand human gameplay, but Coach Stetson had left me in charge of the team today. He had business to take care of.“That was impossible,” Ryan said.I stopped and turned. The rest of the team had gathered around us.“What the hell are you chirping about?” Sky pushed at Ryan’s chest, keeping him from me.“Malachar knows what I’m talking about,” Ryan insisted. I could snap this human in two in barely a

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Chapter 4: How To Sleep With Your Stepson Before Meeting Him

RAEI grabbed a pair of scissors, about to ruin my wedding dress. Then the door to my suite slammed open and my mother and my baby sister Johnie walked in, already dolled up while I was still in my running clothes.“Rae!” Johnie squealed and wrapped her tiny arms around my legs. I crouched to her height and snuggled closer. “Who’s this pretty grown-up lady and what have you done with my baby Johnie?!” I gushed and tickled her. “Confess!” She giggled and giggled.“Why were you holding scissors?” My mother’s gaze narrowed slightly. “And why—Rachel, what is this?!”“I don’t think it suits me.” I let Johnie go.“Are you joking? Almost every influential person in the city is here. Your obnoxious cousins. The mayor. Even Wondra’s CEO.”I blinked rapidly. If I became the talk of the town for fleeing my wedding, would Wondra TV still promote me as promised?“Rachel!” My mother suddenly yelled and then she pressed her fingers together to compose herself. “He’s doing us a favour. Can’

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All Chapters of The Hockey Captain I Slept With is My Stepson: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Chapter 1: How To Act Professionally Unwell

Chapter 2: How To Unknowingly Trade Your Sanity

Chapter 3: How To Want Your Enemy

Chapter 4: How To Sleep With Your Stepson Before Meeting Him