Quarterback: Bad Boy Sport Star Romance. by Emma Jones Read Free Book Online Page A

had orange hair and a couple of tattoos on her forearms that Katie always asked her to cover up in the bakery. Despite her suspect appearance, over the last two years, Monica had been her most trustful employee.
     
    Katie answered the phone. It was an executive from ABC television. She had no idea why someone like that would be contacting her and she nearly hung the phone up assuming that it was some sort of prank.
    But she did not. She was about to receive one of the biggest orders in the five year history of the cupcake shop.
    An ABC executive told her that they would be shooting a short documentary on one of the town’s most well-known people.
    When Katie heard that name, she almost fainted. For a moment, she put the phone down and leaned against the wall. She feared that she might have been having a panic attack. That had happened before on more than one occasion.
    “Hello, hello, are you still there?” She heard coming from the phone. She took a couple more deep breaths and picked up the phone.
    When the phone call ended, Katie stood in her back office trembling. This can’t be happening, she said to herself. It can’t be.

Chapter 2.
    Tyler sat on the couch in his bachelor pad, flipping through the channels. He was barely paying attention to the images that passed before him on the screen. His mind seemed to be a million miles away.
    But when he landed on a hockey game, he immediately snapped back to the present. He put the remote down and leaned forward on the couch. Within moments he was jumping up in the middle of his luxury apartment, celebrating wildly as the Rangers, the team that he used to play for, scored a game-winning goal in overtime.
    Since he was forced onto the long-term injury list, after suffering yet another serious concussion, he had mostly avoided watching hockey games. It was too painful for him. Hockey had been his life. It was such a big part of his identity. Actually, it was his identity. He felt completely lost now that he could no longer call himself a hockey player.
    Growing up in the fabled town of Chrisberg, he had quickly gained the reputation as the best player in the entire state of Minnesota.  After a while all of the attention began to get to his head. He began carrying himself with a confidence and a swagger that some of the local people didn’t like. But there were many more who were proud of the local boy who was making such a name for himself.
    He hadn’t been back to Chrisberg in almost seven years. That’s when his father died and his mother decided to move out west to be with the rest of her family.
    But he wasn’t just going back home to visit old friends and catch up. He wished that was all that he had to do. No, it definitely wouldn’t be that simple and straightforward.
    He was heading back to his hometown for the shooting of a documentary around his life and other professional sport players that arose from such small communities into the high end of celebrity status. When his agent had first pitched him the project, he’d been ecstatic about it. He knew that there were people in town who would be more than happy to be featured in a primetime documentary. But that was before he suffered his latest concussion, the result of a dirty hit delivered by one of his hated opponents.
    He felt like a shell of himself. He had wanted to go home as the triumphant hero who had returned to share his story of success with the entire world, while at the same time celebrating the culture and people who had made him what he was.
    None of that seemed real now.
     
    Tyler’s agent leaned back in his chair and put his arms behind his head. Every time he did that, Tyler secretly wished that he would fall back and land hard against the floor. But in the three years that he had been Steven Bernstein’s client that had yet to happen.
    “This is going to be huge for you,” Steven said. “ABC is owned by Disney which owns ESPN. You’ve got to start thinking about post-playing career