PUCKED BY MY STEPBROTHER: A FORBIDDEN HOCKEY ROMANCE
He didn't sit down.
He'd slid the drink in front of me and stayed standing, one elbow on the bar, angled toward me like I had to earn him staying. Up close he was worse – worse meaning better meaning dangerous.
The bruise on his cheekbone was fresh, turning purple at the edges. The scar through his eyebrow was older – thin, pale, deliberate-looking. Tattoos crept up the side of his neck, disappearing into his collar – dark ink, intricate, the kind you got one at a time over years, not all at once in a parlor on spring break. His knuckles on the bar top were split and swollen. Everything about him looked like a warning label that someone had ripped off and eaten.