After the Final Whistle — Ebook

Description

He laughed the night his teammate got on his knees. Eight years later, he’s renting the guesthouse at the bottom of that man’s garden.

Eight years ago, Callum Reid got on his knees for Owen Mercer in a Cardiff hotel room. Owen laughed, made a joke, and walked out. They never talked about it.

Now Owen’s knee has been rebuilt twice, his England career is over, and the only place he can stand to live is the guesthouse at the bottom of Callum’s garden in a Yorkshire market town where nobody is going to film him. Separate door. Proper lease. Nobody’s doing anybody any favours.

Except Callum still looks at him like he’s the only man on the pitch. And Callum still does everything for everyone in Northmere, while nobody ever does a single thing for him.

Callum is working sixty-one hours a week to save the community centre he built. Owen has a Sky Sports contract waiting in London, a sponsor who wants his surgical scar on a billboard, and a body he doesn’t recognise.

But Owen has worked out that the man who never asks for anything goes very still when he’s told to sit down. And this time, when Callum gets on his knees, Owen isn’t walking out.

After the Final Whistle is a steamy contemporary MM former-teammates romance with a bossy, injured ex-England flanker, the caretaker who has never been taken care of, a second chance, forced proximity, a found-family rugby team, both men vers, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Dual POV. British setting. Standalone.

Ebook edition. For readers 18+.

Why you’ll love this book

• Former teammates and the Cardiff hotel night that haunted them for eight years
• An injured ex-England flanker who coaches from a camping chair
• “Sit down.” Bossy praise, instruction and a man finally made to say what he wants
• A guesthouse lease, forced proximity and a 7 a.m. back-step coffee ritual
• A found-family touch rugby team that has never won a match
• Both men vers, real disability rep without pity
• No cheating, HEA guaranteed

Ebook edition

Format: Digital EPUB ebook (not a printed or audio edition). Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno. Audience: 18+.

Content notes

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes, including oral sex, anal sex, a solo scene, frottage, edging and orgasm control, instruction and praise, light wrist-holding restraint, and semi-public encounters in an office, a car and an equipment store; all on-page sex is between consenting adults). It also includes a career-ending knee injury and chronic pain, depression after injury, overwork and burnout, a past controlling relationship (discussed, not on page), a public argument, a third-act separation, alcohol, and strong language. No cheating, no sexual violence, no dub-con. Intended for readers 18+.

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