Touchdown Daddy: Football’s Bad Boys, #5

By Ava Walsh

Jennifer

 

I have the best job in the world. I get paid for touching hot men. And not just any hot men: I am the sports therapist for Philly's professional football team.

 

Of course the guys hit on me all the time. But I know their tricks. I'm a professional and never break my rules.

 

Until he lands on my massage table. Justin's the most gorgeous, the most cocky, and the most annoying player on the team. He flirts without trying and offends the hell out of me. So why am I falling for him so hard?

 

I need to stay away from this guy, he'll bring me nothing but trouble. But I can't. He's injured and Coach Michaels wants me to treat him.

 

Then the guy kisses me one day when I'm trying to work on him and I know I want him. I run after one explosive night together and try to hold my crumbling world together, facing life as a single mother.

 

He's turned my world upside down, but I can't ever let him know how much our night changed his.

 

Justin

 

Every guy wants to be like me. I am the most admired player in the NFL and the most desired one by the ladies. I can talk any woman into my bed. I live for the chase.

 

Until I lay eyes on the new sports therapist Jennifer. She's gorgeous and tough and I know I've met my match. Too bad she's not interested. But I don't care. I'll find a way to have her.

 

When I finally succeed, she gives me the best night of my life. For the first time, I want a woman to stay in my life.

 

She doesn't.

 

I know I've fallen for her when the pain doesn't go away. I need to find her to convince her we need a second chance.

 

But where the hell is she?

 

This is a standalone book in a series of football star secret baby romance stories. The books each have a guaranteed HEA and contain plenty of hot football players, steamy love-scenes and mature language. Definitely intended for 18+ readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Heartbeat Reads
• Release date: Apr 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201271053

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Touchdown Daddy

A Secret Baby Sports Romance

By: Ava Walsh

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

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Chapter One

Iwas working on the computer in the event planner’s office when I heard someone say my name. I tossed my thick braid over my shoulder and glanced over to see Coach Michaels standing in the doorway. Here you are, Jennifer. Are you helping Michelle out again? His face twisted into a frown, one that I suspected meant both sympathy and a bit of worry.

I don’t think you’ll have to worry about her having another baby after this. This first trimester is brutal for her, Coach. She was in the bathroom most of the morning before I saw her long enough to send her home, I remarked with a wrinkled nose as I pictured her pale face in my mind. Poor thing...I never wanted to have kids, but that was probably what most twenty-two-year-old graduates thought. What’s up?

I’d like you to take a look at one of my guys. He’s dealing with something in his shoulder, and I’d rather be cautious about this. There was an evident worry in his voice.

Sure thing. I stood and walked into the hallway to the room that was set up for me several feet down near the stadium. Who is it?

Justin McLeod, Coach Michaels replied, and I frowned. Even if I weren't in sports therapy, I would know something about Justin. He was gorgeous, and he knew it, but he was also an excellent quarterback. With their leading scores so far this season, I doubted that they were willing to lose him to an injury. Do you know him?

Who doesn’t? I asked as I led the way into the room connected to the locker room where all of my stuff was meticulously stored. Is it an old injury?

It is. He pulled some tendons last year and the kid won’t take care of himself, Jennifer. I want you to take a feel and see what you can tell him that he’ll listen to. Coach gave me an imploring look with his tired, dark eyes and I smiled and nodded.

I will do my best, but stubborn athletes have a hard time with listening. I saw Coach nod before he ran a hand through his graying hair. He wasn’t just my boss, but also my father’s best friend and lifelong family friend. I graduated from Boston University with a degree in Sports Medicine just a few months ago, and he’d needed a new therapist here in Philadelphia, so here I was. It wasn’t favoritism though I didn’t let it out that we knew each other well, fearful that it might look that way.

There was no reason to tell him that I doubted that Justin would take my words to heart. He was a wild man who played by nobody’s rules, on or off the field. He’d been spotted by the paparazzi many times at some bar with a woman or two, sometimes three. I doubted that he’d worry about his health and how it might affect the team. It was a shame that he was one of the big talents on the team and that Coach depended on him. I’ll tell him to come and see you. Practice is over in about an hour. Can you stick around? His eyes pleaded with me, and I nodded with what I hoped was a relaxed grin.

I knew how athletes were when they saw a girl in the staff. Not that I was a supermodel by any means, but my strawberry blonde hair was pretty and brought out my deep blue eyes. I kept myself in shape since this job required me to stay active. I could end up treating half the team on any given day and they required strength on my part. My friends thought that I just got this job to check out hot guys but it was more than that. My brothers had played sports when I was younger and whenever they got hurt, it made me realize that I wanted to help others.

One thing led to another and I found myself in college studying that very subject. I memorized more muscles than I