Sexy Jerk World

Everyone I know is married. It doesn't bother me. I like my life the way it is. But since I'm single, when my best friend and her husband finally decide to go on their dream honeymoon, she asks me to watch their three-year-old son, Max. Of course, I say yes. But what my best friend neglects to tell me is that I won't be babysitting alone. Thinking that Max might be too much for me to handle, her husband asks his only single friend, Nick, to help. Nick Carrington and I have met a couple of dozen times. I've never really given him a second thought-other than to say that he's kind of a jerk. Out loud. So he can hear. Sure, he's tall, dark, and handsome. But he always has to be the life of the party. He's arrogant. Imposing. Rich. And a playboy. And now I'm stuck with him...for two weeks! But what could possibly happen? It's not like we're going to fall in love or anything...right?

The NFL is full of rules, rules I've never broken, never challenged, never even scratched...until the day Lucas Carrington crashes into my life with his hard body and I-don't-give-a-f*ck attitude. After I almost injure my father's star player, I volunteer to make sure he's in top shape. At first, it's hell. I don't like his cockiness, his easy smile. I don't like the way he oozes sex, or how his penetrating eyes follow me everywhere. But that doesn't stop me from wanting him. He's meant to be a distraction‚ something to occupy my mind for these precious few remaining hot summer nights before I'm forced to leave football behind forever. I know what we're doing will lead nowhere good. I know we're crossing the line. And I know my father will never understand. But none of that matters. Even if it should. Rules aren't meant to be broken.

Jace Bennett is the kind of man you'll love forever. Tall, dark, and brooding, he makes your lashes flutter and your heart pound. It could be that slow, sexy smile or his filthy, dirty mouth. It could be the way he makes you feel like you're the only one who matters. Or maybe it's because just one smoldering look makes you go weak in the knees. I haven't seen him since the day I walked away. And yet seeing him now, I can't deny I want him back. No matter how much time passes, he'll always be the hot college guy sitting on the counter at a frat house drinking a beer...the one I knew I wanted to marry before I said hello. But from what I can tell, to him, I'm just somebody he used to know. The thing that sucks about love is that there's never any going back. But somehow I'll have to learn to deal with that because, like it or not, I'm stuck with him-or, rather, he's stuck with me. You see I'm his new employee‚ the one he unknowingly hired to help save his company, and this time I'm not going anywhere.