Romance: Seducing The Quarterback Read Free

that. He could feel the adrenaline
coursing through his veins.
     
    Austin hopped off the couch, clapping wildly, hooting and
howling in the darkened room. The viewing room.
    “Hell yeah!” His deep masculine voice resounded off the
walls. It was the booming voice of a leader. An alpha. He could feel his mojo
coming back, the blood coursing through his veins.
    He looked to his left and raised his arm in the air,
preparing to give a high-five.
    That’s what he and his father used to do. But this time, he
stood there with his arm frozen in the air. What a horrendous feeling. He
wouldn’t have wished it on anyone.
    The images of his father, Big Daddy Daniels, came flooding
back to him. Big Daddy was always trying to tell him which women to look out
for and which ones to trust. He never had a problem finding something
attractive about a woman. He had a very eclectic palate, which he ended up
passing on to his son who also had a very open mind when it came to the women
that he pursued.
    After his father’s death, Austin had really lost his way. He’d
always been a bit reckless, a wild child, bad boy. He’d always been the type of
guy who didn't give a damn about whether or not he pushed the envelope. The
envelope be damned! Rules weren’t for him, especially the kind that tried to
attach some sort of morality to the way a man conducted himself in his private
life, in particular when it came to the ladies. Male journalists seemed to take
a particular pleasure in exposing the juicy details of his sex life.
    Whenever he went out, even if just for a coffee at
Starbucks, it seemed like there was an army of paparazzi tailing him, some
hanging close to his bumper or pulling up alongside him, making it clear that
they were following him, even taunting him, trying to get a response, something
impulsive and irrational, something that would grab the headlines.
    After he led Texas to victory in the national championship
game, he was America's darling. The tough, rugged bad boy who'd managed to win
in the end. There’d been so many people rooting against him, hoping that he
would fall flat on his arrogant face.
    But there were many more people who wanted him to succeed
and stick it to all the uptight people in the media, those people that didn’t
know how to let their hair down and have fun, those, weak skinny, beta males
who seethed with jealousy when they saw the 6 foot five, green eyed
quarterback, who could make all the throws, especially the deep ones. Nobody
went deeper than Austin.

Chapter 2
     
    Nicole couldn’t believe that he’d screwed this us up. It was
supposed to be their anniversary night. They’d been planning on going out to
her favorite Chinese restaurant for weeks. She’d been calling and texting
Jeffrey for the past forty-five minutes but he still hadn’t responded. She was
starting to get worried that maybe something had happened to him. But that was
just too horrific for her to spend a lot of time thinking about. The thought
that something could have happened to him on their third anniversary was too
much for her to handle. It was the kind of horrible thing that you would hear
on the news. It was the kind of horrible thing that happened to other people.
The kind of thing that you thought you were immune to.
    But as she paced around their apartment in her new black
dress and heels, her mind began to go in even darker directions. Pangs of
jealousy began to well up in her body. For a moment her head became dizzy and
she needed to lean up against the wall to keep from falling over. Several
months ago she’d seen Jeffrey’s phone lying on the couch. It was weird to see
his phone just sitting there like that. She’d only ever seen it in his hand. He
never left it out. And it wasn’t something that she paid that much attention
to. They were always together unless we were working.
    She would have preferred to spend these moments of freedom
traveling the country or maybe even the world. But when she had brought