Pucking Ever After: Volume 1

PUCKING EVER AFTER VOLUME ONE EMILY RATH CONTENTS Author’s Note Tropes, Tags, & Content Warnings Meet The Rays Chapter Blurbs 1. Häagen-Dazs 2. Emergency Contact 3. Up in the Air 4. Ikea 5. Paternity Test 6. King of the Ice Thank You Also by Emily Rath About the Author Copyright © 2023 Emily Rath Books. All rights reserved. First published in 2023. Rath, Emily PUCKING EVER AFTER: VOLUME ONE No part of this book may be reproduced, circulated, stored, in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means other than which it is published without the prior permission of the publisher. All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental. eBook ASIN: B0C2JYSCLX eBook ISBN: 979-8-9877933-3-6 Paperback ISBN: 979-8-9877933-4-3 Cover design by: Maldo Designs This is for you, readers. You’ve changed my fucking life, and I’m so profoundly grateful. You wanted more Price Family. Here you go. AUTHOR’S NOTE If you’re here, it means you’ve read THAT ONE NIGHT and PUCKING AROUND and you loved them. Right? RIGHT?? If you haven’t read those books yet, you reeeeeally need to do that first. Otherwise, this little volume of bonus content won’t do much for you. As I build out the Jacksonville Rays universe, I want to have plenty of content to offer my readers during the in-between times of the main book releases. PUCKING EVER AFTER is one way I can give you more Rays in smaller bites! This is just Volume One. Meaning there will be more volumes. Oh, and I do take requests (sort of). Enjoy! XO, Emily TROPES, TAGS, & CONTENT WARNINGS TROPES Happily ever after; hockey romance; bonus content; why choose TAGS Babies, happily ever after, hockey, why choose, Team Price, jam nipples, the most unconvincing straight man you’ve ever met, Super Jake, DVP, net kink, Price Family Storage Closet, put a dollar in the swear jar, Poseidon Price CONTENT WARNINGS This book contains themes that may be distressing to some readers including: depictions of pregnancy, mentions of non-life-threatening post-birth hemorrhage, and mention of a newborn who needs time in a NICU for a mild case of jaundice. This book also contains detailed two-, three-, and four-person sex scenes that include elements of impact play, choking, double vaginal penetration, degradation/praise, and public sex. STAR SIGNS: RACHEL: Cancer (water): intuitive, emotional, guarded ILMARI: Aries (fire): bold, ambitious, temperamental JAKE: Taurus (earth): focused, sensual, steadfast CALEB: (Sagittarius (fire): adventurous, adaptable, blunt MEET THE RAYS PLAYERS Davidson, Tyler (#65): backup goalie DeGraw, Hunter (#1): starting goalie Fields, Ethan (#94): forward Gerard, Jean-Luc “J Lo” (#6): defenseman Hanner, Paul (#24): defenseman Karlsson, Henrik (#17): forward Langley, Ryan (#20): forward Morrow, Cole (#3): defenseman Novikov, Lukas “Novy” (#22): defenseman Perry, David “DJ” (#13): forward Price, Ilmari “Mars” (#31): starting goalie Price, Jake (#42): defenseman, Captain Walsh, Cade (#10): forward COACHES Andrews, Brody: Assistant Coach Johnson, Harold “Hodge”: Head Coach Tomlin, Eric: Goalie Coach TEAM SUPPORT Gordon, Jerry: Assistant Equipment Manager Jones, Cody: Equipment Tech Price, Caleb: Head Equipment Manager MEDICAL SUPPORT Jacobs, Hillary: Team Nurse O’Connor, Teddy: PT intern Price, Rachel: Assistant Director of Physical Therapy Tyler, Scott: Team Doctor OPERATIONS/MANAGEMENT Francis, Vicki: Operations Manager Ortiz, Claribel: Social Media Manager St. James, Poppy: Public Relations Director CHAPTER BLURBS 1. Häagen-Dazs (Jake) This was a fan request! Sam of @rain.books.and.tea wanted to see Jake’s super power in action. Enjoy this cute moment of Jake picking out Ilmari’s ice cream flavor. 2. Emergency Contact (Rachel) Filling out medical paperwork becomes a bit of an issue when the Fearsome Foursome each realize who the others listed as their emergency contact. 3. Up in the Air (Rachel) It’s 3:00am and the team is flying high somewhere over the skies of the Midwest. Rachel should be sleeping. Determined to help her relax, Ilmari takes matters into his own hands. 4. IKEA (Ilmari) The last thing Ilmari wants to do after a busy day is get dragged to IKEA. Little does he know, his day is about to get a lot more interesting. 5. Paternity Test (Rachel) Rachel is in the hospital, waiting to get discharged, when the nurse arrives with some exciting news. 6. King of the Ice (Caleb) Caleb and Ilmari watch Jake lead the Rays to a major victory and Caleb can’t help but remind Jake who’s really king of the ice. 1 HÄAGEN-DAZS Visit FileDB.io for more free books “I need to grab some deodorant.” Without waiting for my response, Caleb wanders off the moment we step through the sliding doors into Publix. “Hey—meet me in frozen!” I shout at his back. He doesn’t respond, head down as he checks his phone. Asshole. He always disappears and then it takes me like ten minutes of prowling the aisles to find him again. Why can’t he just stay by my side? We only came in here for one thing. I swear, next time I’m gonna put Poseidon’s leash on him and give him a tug whenever he tries to wander off. Speaking of the dog, he’s out waiting in the car with the window cracked. And I’m itching to get to Seattle. I wanna make this detour quick. I snatch up a green shopping basket by the handles and head in the opposite direction of Cay, down towards the ice cream aisle. It feels like it’s been days since I’ve seen her, instead of only hours. We crossed paths a few times at the practice rink this morning. She watched me doing some drills with the other defensemen out on the ice. Later, she flashed me a flirty wink in the gym that had me adjusting myself over by the elliptical. But then Mars had to offer her a ride home while I was still tied up with my strength and conditioning coach. Of course, he didn’t mean our home. You know, the one where she lives. With me. Cay and I got home to find the house empty. Sy was whining and doing his pee