Page 138 of The Friend Zone

She snatches the plastic stick before I can. “Oh my God, Bay,” her blue eyes shine with barely contained tears.

“Oh come on Lakey,” I comfort her. “It’s ok, we don’t have to be pregnant at the same time. Please don’t cry. If you ruin your makeup, Claudia will blow a gasket.”

She shakes her head, handing me the stick. “But we are going to have a baby at the same time. Or babies. I bet you every dime in the Royal coffers that you’re having twins too.”

I can’t believe it. This is impossible. “But I?—”

She pulls me into a tight hug. “I love you, Bay. I can’t wait to do this together. Even if I’ll be in Bridgeport and you’ll be in Hartford. I can’t wait to see Cole and Jagger’s faces when you tell them. I think Ryker will be the most excited though.”

“I can’t tell them. Not until tomorrow. Today’s your wedding day and I’m not going to steal your thunder.”

“I don’t care.” She shrugs. “You should just go and tell them right now.”

I can’t help but laugh through my tears of joy and excitement. “If I do, they’re going to give us away and you’re keeping it secret for another week. I’m going to tell them tonight, after the party is over.”

Lakyn claps her hands, more excited than I am. “Awesome. Can I be there when you tell them? Or wait. If you’re too nervous, we can trade places, like we used to do at school when I had to do a presentation and I was too nervous to speak in public.”

I laugh at my sister’s crazy idea. “Oh, really? Does that mean that I also get to be you during your wedding night?”

“Hey!” Lakyn snorts through the tears. “There’s no way you’re going to get to be in bed with my husbands. Even though on second thought,” she giggles. “Cole, Jagger and Ryker are hot. Maybe we could?—”

“Shut up, Your Highness.” I laugh, circling her waist with my arm and looking at our reflections in the bathroom mirror. “You know what’s mine is yours. It applies to everything except my men.”

She nods. “I was just messing with you. I couldn’t agree more. Tell them tonight but tomorrow morning I want to hear everything about how they reacted. Ok?”

“Why?” she asks. “Oh, our twin connection?”

We both laugh, looking at each other in the mirror. “You can’t doubt it anymore, Lakey-Lake.”

There’s a beat of silence as we turn to stare into each other’s eyes.

“I love you.” We say at the same time.

“Come on Lake,” I guide her out of the bathroom. “Let’s go and get you married.”

I hope you loved reading about Lakyn and Bay and their men just as much as I loved writing them.

The new year will see a brand new hockey series set in Star Cove, look out for the cover reveal and preorder announcement of The Six-Six-Six Rule.

But until then, if you want more spicy sport romance with a darker twist, why not meet Ausra and her men? She’s escaped her father’s cult and they’re four hot windsurfing champions looking for the right girl to play a sexy game with them.

Don’t let the way they talk about her at first fool you, these guys are just as protective as they’re hot once they get to know Ausra.

Take a look at the first POV of The Pact, the first book in The Preacher’s Daughter series:

OUTCASTS

KELLEY

Six Months Ago

“What about her?” Shep says pointing at a girl in tight short shorts despite the fact that it’s January.

“Nah.” I laugh. “I fucked her last year. So I’d have an unfair advantage.”

“Well fuck, if we have to find a girl none of us tapped here at school, we might as well not even try,” Ashton observes, following the blonde with his gaze until she’s out of sight.

Bode weighs in, calm as usual. “Fine by me. I fuck whoever I fuck and unlike you guys, I prefer to have a connection with someone before I put my dick in her.”

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