Page 1 of Protecting Player #73 (Portland, Settlers #1 | Gridiron Warriors)

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M enacing clouds loom in the night sky, a thunderstorm on its way, as I relax on a bench across the street from the modest home my target lives in with her friend, Thor Strong.

I don’t like him. He’s too handsy, too watchy, too in her space, and I can’t do anything about it because she doesn’t know I’m fucking here.

She has no idea that my disguised hatred is code for unrequited obsession and that being away from her while the team was on the other side of the country was a form of torture I’m not sure I could handle again.

This ferocious pounding in my temples tells me no one else can have her. She’s mine, mine, mine alone.

For the past month, she’s been running around the field, flirting with the guys, and giving her attention to the subscribers on our team channel. All because I fucked up. I’m pissed with myself, but we never would have met otherwise.

There are so many things I want to say to her, things she’d run from.

Things I’d get arrested for if anyone could read the thoughts in my head.

Like the fact that I want to tie Brea to my bed by her wrists and ankles, blindfold and gag her, completely at my mercy with no way to escape.

I want to whip her thighs until my mark imprints on her skin, spank her until she begs me to stop, but most of all, I want to wife her up.

I want to knock her up and drink from her milk-filled breasts until she’s empty, then do it all over again.

And to top it off…I want my name tattooed across her chest so there’s no mistaking that Brea King belongs to me. My woman won’t be able to stray because once the world learns she’s mine, there will be no going back.

Hell. There isn’t now.

I’m back in town, and once she’s asleep, I intend to slip into her room, steal the panties off her body, set a tracker in her phone, change out her birth control, and install cameras in every corner of her room and personal bathroom.

Brea King is the princess of the Portland Settlers on camera, but off the field, she’s only for me, even if she doesn’t know it yet.

I’m sick. I know this.

I’m determined.

And I will get everything I desire from this sweet, innocent woman. Even if it’s not what she wants.