Therapy

By Adrianna Dane

When Chris met Rick she hadn’t know he was a professional hockey player. If she had, she would have run the other way. She had sworn she’d never date another hockey player after her last fiasco of a relationship with Craig Aspen. And she’d never confided in Rick about her past lover. She loved Rick passionately, but memories of her old, painful past constantly intruded.

When Craig is traded to a team near her new home, where she had run to get away from him, everything changes. With a confrontation on the ice, Chris no longer has a choice—she has to tell Rick the truth and possibly lose him forever. But Rick has other ideas and comes up with an intriguing suggestion for a little therapy that just might destroy her terrible nightmares forever...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dream Romantic Unlimited LLC
• Release date: Apr 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370919048

Adrianna Dane

Adrianna Dane has been putting pen to paper since the age of ten. She currently resides in the state of Washington. She has a great fondness for using a fountain pen when writing her first drafts. Hobby interests are varied, including photography and traveling. The first defining love story Adrianna read back in junior high school was "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, and that set her on the road to her long-standing love affair with books of all genres. Her inspiration in writing often can be found by listening to song lyrics, from hard rock to classical, and reading poetry by such poets as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ranier Maria Rilke. But finding inspiration for her stories truly has no boundaries for Adrianna. In 2006, her dark fantasy GLBT story, Body Parts, won its category in the Dream Realm Awards. Adrianna has written more than 100 stories, short, novella, and novel length, delving into many facets of the human condition - contemporary, futuristic, and fantasy, and all the flavors therein and in between. In other words, wherever the story and the characters, as well as their intricate stories, take her imagination, then her pen and/or computer keyboard, are sure to follow.

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When Chris met Rick she hadn’t know he was a professional hockey player. If she had, she would have run the other way. She had sworn she’d never date another hockey player after her last fiasco of a relationship with Craig Aspen. And she’d never confided in Rick about her past lover. She loved Rick passionately, but memories of her old, painful past constantly intruded.

When Craig is traded to a team near her new home, where she had run to get away from him, everything changes. With a confrontation on the ice, Chris no longer has a choice—she has to tell Rick the truth and possibly lose him forever. But Rick has other ideas and comes up with an intriguing suggestion for a little therapy that just might destroy her terrible nightmares forever...

This story is a work of original fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright 2018 by Adrianna Dane

Cover Art Designs by T. A. Gallup

This story was originally released in January 2007 by Amber Quill Press/Amber Allure

CAUTION: This story contains explicit sexual situations and strong language. You must be over the age of 18 years of age to read this story.

Therapy

By Adrianna Dane

Dream Romantic Unlimited, LLC

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Author Bio

Networking Links

Chapter One

Her shift at the hospital was almost over. A few more notes on the chart and she was out of there. Chris breathed a sigh of relief as she completed the last notation and returned the chart to the stack. She shifted up in the seat and rolled her shoulders. It was Sunday, and although the floor had remained fairly quiet, she was ready to go home. She was off for the next few days and planned to make good use of the time.

Chris, did you hear what happened?

She glanced up as her friend, Alice, also a nurse, hurried toward her, obviously flustered.

What? Chris jumped up from her chair, concerned something had happened to one of the patients.

The hockey game. Did you see any of it? Her words tumbled out as she slid to a halt before the nurse’s station on the sixth floor.

Chris’s heart slowed and she dropped back into the chair. Obviously, while Alice was on break she had been watching the game on television. No. I needed to get these charts done. Why?

Well, your boyfriend got creamed.

Chris shot up from