Break the Ice by Hailey Rodger
A brother’s best friend hockey romance
Logan
I like my life controlled, measured, exactly on schedule. Which is why I don’t date teammates’ sisters.
But Tallulah “Lulu” Parnell makes that one hell of a rule to keep. Sunshine in a maxi dress, always asking questions she shouldn’t, always finding new ways under my skin.
When she moves in across the street, her brother Eli asks me to keep an eye on her during some dating mission to find herself, and suddenly I’ve got a front-row seat. Watching her walk out the door for guys who don’t deserve her, in dresses I can’t stop thinking about, smiling in ways that aren’t meant for me.
Somewhere between a flooded kitchen, a string of failed dates, dog-sitting, and her volunteering me for career day, she asks me for lessons—the kind that don’t belong in a classroom.
I should refuse. Say no and value my life.
Instead, I let her in. And the more I touch her, the harder it gets to remember why I’m supposed to resist. She’s showing me there’s more to life than one safe lane, and I’m proving she’s so much more than people assume.
With hockey, the game starts when you break the ice with the first goal.
With Lulu, it’s endgame.
Break The Ice is a grumpy x sunshine, brother’s best friend / teammate’s sister, spicy lessons hockey romance, and is book three in the Colorado Storm series of interconnected standalones.
Table of Contents
1. No orgasm, no moan
2. No wonder she thinks fireworks don’t exist
3. Man’s got thighs that could crack a walnut
4. The difference between loyalty and yacht-party betrayal
5. Take a hint, bud
6. Thought this was a dive bar, not a daycare
7. Even wildflowers split concrete
8. A guy doing the bare minimum but thinking he’s profound
9. I didn’t come here to name my vagina
10. It doesn’t feel empty anymore
11. Serious Swan and Flashy Flamingo
12. You wouldn’t survive one of my workouts
13. You really think my brother’s that scary?
14. Most guys hate going down, right?
15. Either you’ve found religion, or someone's made you scream
16. The difference between dirty and filthy
17. Someone who already knows the shape of me
18. How not to chirp when you can’t grow a playoff beard
19. Tease me all you want with this floating circus
20. You’re about as subtle as Walton at a wine bar
21. I’m twenty-fucking-four, Marsha
22. I don’t pet things with retractable limbs
23. Wouldn’t want anything left wet
24. Can I have a ride, Mr. Miller?
25. COWABUNGA
26. I’ll be your nobody, then
27. It’d just be like we never existed
28. That’s not how fashion works
29. In my bride era
30. I feel like a queen right now
31. Call me if you need bail money
32. Sounds like something Lulu would say
33. As sure as the sun in the fucking sky
34. Settle the fuck down and play hockey
35. This is the medical room, not a Thunderdome
36. Nothing beats a good shower sob
37. A lifeline. A knife. Both at once.
38. The only thing I’ve ever wished on
39. All my little scraps of truth
Epilogue
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Acknowledgements
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