You Had Me at Get Lost by Nichole Rose

He’s the goalie she swore she wouldn’t love. She’s the future he never thought he’d find.

Briggs
I always believed in happily-ever-after.
I just never thought it belonged to me.
Then Tia Monroe told me to get lost.
Everyone says she doesn’t date hockey players.
Her eyes tell me there’s a reason.
I intend to find out what it is.
And then I’m changing the ending.
Because Tia isn’t a game to win.
She’s the future I never thought I’d find.
And I’m not giving up until she believes in forever again.

Tia
Getting kids into college? Easy.
Dating a hockey player? Never again.
I already know how that story ends…
In humiliating bets and being treated like a prize.
But Briggs Ward refuses to fit the mold.
He won’t stop showing up.
And he won’t stop treating me like I’m something precious.
The more I learn about him, the more I realize we’re both carrying scars neither of us deserved.
I swore I’d never fall for a man like him.
But I’m beginning to think there is no one else like him.
There’s just Briggs.
And somehow, without me ever seeing it coming, he’s changing everything I thought I knew about love.