<p>*A Standalone novel*<br />
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I&rsquo;m NHL defenseman Lance Romero, AKA Lance &ldquo;Romance.'<br />
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I&rsquo;m notorious for parties and excess. I have the most penalty minutes in the league. I get into the most fights. I take the most hits. I&rsquo;m a player on and off the ice. I&rsquo;m the one women with no inhibitions want.<br />
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Not because I like the notoriety, but because I don&rsquo;t know how to be any other way.<br />
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I have secrets. Ones I shared with the wrong person, and she used them against me. Sometimes she still does. I should cut ties. But she makes it difficult, because she&rsquo;s the kind of bad I deserve.<br />
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At least that&rsquo;s what I believed until someone from my past gets caught up in my present. She&rsquo;s all the good things in this world. She lights up my dark.<br />
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I shouldn&rsquo;t want her.<br />
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But I do.<br />
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I should leave her alone.<br />
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But I won&rsquo;t.</p>