Overprotective Parents

BREAKING NEWS: The Bad Boy of Baseball, Maddox Paige, is totally and utterly whipped. Okay, that might not be the headlines in the newspaper this morning, but it's the reality of my current situation. It all started a month ago when I received a call from my best friend, Kinsley. She got a new job in Chicago and needed a place to stay. I've known the girl since I was five, what harm would it be to have her stay at my place for a while? Ha! Total disaster. Now instead of going out every night with my teammates, I'm couch surfing and sketching endless photos of my best friend . . . but that's the least of my concerns. The disaster, you ask? I'm rapidly falling head over cleats in love with my best friend, my roommate, and my number one fan. And she has no idea . . .

Blue is a forced proximity, forbidden, age-gap romance, intended for a mature audience. My marriage was a farce—our vows splintered years before my wife’s lips touched another man’s. A call from my boss overseas asking me to house his juvenile daughter seemed the perfect opportunity to create some distance. Though Blue Sterling wasn’t the Bambi eyed kid I saved from a burning vehicle all those years ago. Nah. She was all grown up. Killer legs, full lips, and a scent so alluring it made me sick. Despite holding myself back, my walls began to crumble. She called me cold—she wasn’t wrong. Yet with each day that passed, and every forbidden touch, she seemed to nestle her way into my warmth. Warmth I had no idea I possessed. Blue Sterling became my devotion. And though tragedy brought us together, it seemed my secrets kept us apart. Ultimately, I realised it too little too late—the danger to be found in devotion when you weren’t all in.