Hard Count by Lucas Malone
Two rival quarterbacks. One owned by a monster and a wink.
Football consumed Piper Ashton.
Every snap, every route, every victory was a masterclass in control.
Until Noah Reyes.
Piper’s rival quarterback, who smiled like sin and threw like a freight train.
Noah was the one player who could make Piper’s perfect world crack wide open with nothing but a wink across the line of scrimmage.
An obsession, so all-consuming, that two of the league’s most watched men began making the kind of mess that could end careers, reputations and their lives.
The truth is, Piper’s life was never really his to begin with. It belongs to a powerful billionaire who has spent years pulling every string in his life, and that man doesn’t share.
One championship.
One forbidden, toxic obsession.
One secret that could burn the entire league to the ground.
Table of Contents
A Warning Note
Chapter One: Los Angeles
Chapter Two: Los Angeles
Chapter Three: Los Angeles to Atherton
Chapter Four: Los Angeles Nine years earlier
Chapter Five: Seattle
Chapter Six: Los Angeles
Chapter Seven: Los Angeles
Chapter Eight: Los Angeles
Chapter Nine: Los Angeles
Chapter Ten: Los Angeles
Chapter Eleven: Los Angeles
Chapter Twelve: Atherton
Chapter Thirteen: Los Angeles
Chapter Fourteen: Los Angeles to Chicago
Chapter Fifteen: Los Angeles
Chapter Sixteen: Los Angeles
Chapter Seventeen: Los Angeles
Chapter Eighteen: Los Angeles
Chapter Nineteen: Los Angeles to Seattle
Chapter Twenty: Seattle
Chapter Twenty-One: Los Angeles
Chapter Twenty-Two: Los Angeles
Chapter Twenty-Three: San Francisco
Chapter Twenty-Four: Los Angeles
Chapter Twenty-Five: New York City
Chapter Twenty-Six: Denver
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Seattle to Los Angeles
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Los Angeles to Atherton
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Atherton
Chapter Thirty: Los Angeles
Chapter Thirty-One: Los Angeles
Chapter Thirty-Two: Los Angeles
Chapter Thirty-Three: Atlanta
Chapter Thirty-Four: New York City
Chapter Thirty-Five: Los Angeles
Chapter Thirty-Six: Seattle
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Seattle
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Seattle
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Los Angeles to New York City
Chapter Forty: Los Angeles
Chapter Forty-One: Los Angeles
Chapter Forty-Two: East Rutherford
Chapter Forty-Three: Los Angeles
Chapter Forty-Four: Los Angeles
Chapter Forty-Five: Los Angeles
Chapter Forty-Six: Reykjavík
Chapter Forty-Seven: Reykjavík
SOUNDTRACK
Acknowledgments
Author Bio
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