Atlanta Lightning Book 2: The End Zone by Riley Hart

 

Atlanta Lightning Book 2

Jeremy

Seeing my best friend West, happy with his fiancé opened my eyes to things I’ve been missing in my own marriage. My divorce, which was amicable, followed. Strangely, at West’s wedding, I find myself confiding in Darren, the straight, confirmed bachelor and star quarterback of the Atlanta Lightning. Darren is a full-steam-ahead kind of guy, and one talk leads to hanging out, swapping phone numbers, and pranking West and Anson while they’re on their honeymoon. When I head back to California, I expect our chats to end, but I couldn’t be more wrong.

Darren

I still can’t say how it happened, how a random decision to strike up a conversation with Jeremy turned into…whatever this is. All I know is, months later, my days aren’t complete until we tell each other good night. Whether it’s on our calls or when he flies to Atlanta, we talk about everything, lying awake together half the night. Jeremy’s got me feeling…different. If it was just my newly discovered bisexuality, that’d be one thing. I’m not one to stress about being into a man for the first time. It’s the other stuff, the way he makes my pulse race and my heart swell, that’s throwing me for a loop.

I didn’t think I was made for relationships, thought something inside me was broken, but I want it all with him. Except, it feels like as soon as we make it past one obstacle, there’s an even bigger one waiting for us. We just have to keep our heads in the game and our eyes on the prize, to make it to the end zone, before one last tackle takes us down for good.

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My Review: 5/5 Stars

Jeremy thought he was happy with his life and his marriage. But over the years, things have changed. Now he is divorced (though his ex still remains one of his closest friends) and he finds himself in the most unlikely of friendships with Darren, his best friend’s husband’s best friend and professional football player. When Darren and Jeremy meet at their best friends’ wedding, the spark between them surprises them both. They find it is so easy to talk one another and soon find themselves crossing paths and even pranking their best friends. And then they just keep in touch. Jeremy knows it may be a bad idea because he can’t help the feelings that are starting to form for Darren who is straight but at the same time…there is just something about Darren he isn’t ready to let go of just yet. Darren has always thought he wasn’t made for relationships. He just never thought he could feel that way toward someone. Hooking up with women was enough though lately he is realizing that he is getting a bit tired. And meeting Jeremy? Well, that sparks something inside him he didn’t realize was possible. And sure, feelings for a man might be new but Darren knows Jeremy is special. The connection they have is one he has never felt with someone before and he is gonna fight to hold on to it as long as he can. Because once he is in, he is all in. I loved these two! They go from friends to best friends to lovers and it was such a sweet journey for the two of them as they discover new things about themselves and what they want from their lives. While also falling in love. Such a fun and cute story!