Accidentally
In Love
Friends First # 3
Friends First # 3
By: Laura Drewry
Releasing June 16, 2015
Loveswept
Blurb
Fans
of Jill Shalvis and Susan Mallery will love Laura Drewry’s warm and humorous
new Friends First romance, a sexy romp about a good cop and a bad girl playing
hard to get.
Ellie
Palmer and cops don’t mix, and getting pulled over by Officer Brett
Hale—again—doesn’t help. Neither does being forced to take a safe-driving
course with him. Brett’s by-the-book attitude leaves Ellie ice-cold, and his
rock-hard body won’t change that. Still, the more time she spends with the guy,
the more she finds herself warming up to his unexpected charms.
Even
though Brett comes off like a boy scout, Ellie has sparked something he wants
badly enough to get him to rethink his past mistakes. But when her ex shows up,
Brett makes it his mission to keep Ellie safe in the here and now. His gut
tells him the guy’s trouble, and Ellie must agree, because she doesn’t complain
when Brett pulls her close. To keep her safe, though, he’ll have to choose
between breaking her heart . . . and breaking the rules.
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Brett
got to the field early and pulled his truck in beside Nick’s, barely closing
the door before Nick tossed one of the bases at him. After catching it in
midstride, Brett left his glove inside the dugout and followed Nick to the
baseline.
“Heard
you were making friends with Ellie again today.” Nick snorted out a laugh and
shook his head as he walked the measuring tape down the line. “If I were you,
I’d keep an eye out for a ball to the back of the head tonight.”
Brett
just shrugged. What happened while he was on shift was nobody’s business. He
wouldn’t talk about Ellie and her driving record any more than he’d talk about
the domestic call he’d been coming from when he pulled her over.
After
Nick measured out the distance from first, Brett dropped second base into
place, took the hammer from Nick, and pounded the stake through the loop.
“You
don’t think this’ll cause problems with the team, do you?”
“Nah,
it’ll be fine.” Nick was already heading over to third, chuckling as he walked.
“She’s —Hey, look who’s here.”
Nick’s
cousin, Carter, came strolling onto the diamond, his arm wrapped around Regan’s
shoulders, a deep blush covering her face, a huge grin covering his, and both
looking a little disheveled.
“God’s
sake, you two.” Ellie’s friend Maya pushed through the gate behind them, shaking
her blond head. “Can’t you even go five minutes without groping each other?”
“Red
just can’t seem to keep her hands off me.” Pulling Regan in closer, Carter
kissed the side of her head and laughed. “Not that I’m complaining.”
The
rest of the team wandered onto the field, but there was no sign of Ellie. Maybe
she’d decided not to—
There
she was.
Dressed
in tight black baseball pants and a gray T-shirt with navy sleeves, she raced
up to the field on a black mountain bike. While it was still in motion, she
jumped off and left it standing against the bleachers, her helmet dangling from
the handlebar.
It
amazed him, as it did every time he saw her, how good she looked in everything
she wore. Hell, she could make a burlap sack look like something out of a Victoria’s
Secret catalog.
He
didn’t let his gaze linger very long. He never did, never needed to, because he
already had the image memorized. And besides, Jayne broke the spell the second
she saw Ellie arrive and ran in her direction.
Their
voices followed him out to the field, but thankfully not a single word was
mentioned about her license mishap. Instead, if what he was hearing was right,
it sounded like Ellie had unexpected company. Male company or female company?
Not that it was any of his business.
A
“she.” Hmmm. Her sister maybe? Wait . . . no . . . her mother.
Unexpected
visits from parents usually meant one of two things: something was wrong or
something was about to be wrong.
“Okay,”
Nick called out, lifting his gloved hand toward the darkening clouds. “Let’s
get going before the rain starts again. Quick warm-up then let’s have Carter
pitching, Jayne catching, Ellie first, Leon second, Brett short, Delmar third,
Maya right, Martin center, Kyle roving, and I’ll take left. The rest can bat.
Oh, and Ellie—you’re down for the first case of beer.”
Brett
jogged over to his position, pulled his cap down a little, and took stock of
the players around him. Leon and Delmar looked relaxed on their bases, no
question they’d played before, but there was no way Ellie was going to be able
to play first properly with that stiff new glove and those shiny new cleats.
He
knew she’d played a little before, and she might look the part, especially
after she tucked her long hair through the back of that faded blue ball cap.
Looking the part, however, was a whole lot different than actually being able
to play the position, and first base was crucial for a winning team, beer
league or not.
Author Info
Laura
Drewry had been scribbling things for years before she decided to seriously sit
down and write. After spending eight years in the Canadian north, Laura now
lives back home in southwestern British Columbia with her husband, three sons,
a turtle named Sheldon, and an extremely energetic German shepherd. She loves
old tattered books, good movies, country music, and the New York Yankees.
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Thank you for hosting us this morning! I really appreciate it and hope you're having a great weekend! :)
Cheers
Laura
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