Completely satisfying and with an amazing grand gesture to win the guy’s hand, I LOVED Scoring the Player’s Baby! ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
After a divorce from her cheating football player ex, PR whiz Kim Matlock would rather drive a pine tree through her walled-off heart than work at the Seattle Wedding Expo. And the last thing she expects is to be grabbed and kissed breathless by a hot giant of a man looking to fend off a stalker. She doesn’t want emotional entanglements, but she can’t say no to one scorching night with the sexy stranger.
To her shock, she finds out afterward that a) he’s a pro football player, aka her kryptonite, and b) she’s pregnant.
But nothing could have prepared her for his response…
Naima Simone’s WAGS series has been a bit hit and miss for me, but Scoring the Player’s Baby was a huge hit. It quite possibly be that the
hero, Ronin Palamo, is a character who has intrigued me from the first book in this series, it could also be that it was impossible not to feel the attraction between this couple from the start, or it could be that despite both the hero and heroine having some heavy duty baggage when it came down to it, their child and their growing feelings trumped all. I loved the emotions both characters had throughout this book, the lust that made it difficult for them to stay away, the parental baggage that made them both know they wanted better for their child, and they way they both fell despite believing they would never do so again.
I always appreciate a smart, strong, sophisticated heroine and Kim Matlock is all of that and so much more. The product of an affair between her model mother and business mogul father left Kim with a great female role model and a dad who refused to acknowledge her existence with the exception of his monthly check. While she now works with and has a great relationship with her half brother, her father still has an attitude against her even though she is working hard to save the hotels he bought that have been losing market share. On top of her father’s abandonment, Kim’s recent divorce from her pro football playing husband who repeatedly cheated on her and made a fool of her has left her less than trusting of men and swearing off anything resembling a relationship. Daring to embark on a one night stand with a man who has made her body sit up and take notice after a very long drought, Kim has no idea that the man she chose is none other than Ronin Palamo, a wide receiver for the Washington Warriors.
The minute Ronin spots Kim from across the room at a wedding expo he is attending with his sister he can’t explain the draw she has on him and meeting her only intensifies that feeling. When she helps him out of a sticky situation he finds he admires her quick wit and smart mouth leading to a night they both will never forget in more ways than one.
You’ll I can’t even begin to describe the beauty of Ronin and I don’t just mean his looks; this man is sweet, funny, kind, caring, and takes care of his sisters and his mom. Ronin is the whole package; tough when he needs to be, patient, sweet, and dominate and despite his feelings on relationships he is all in when he finds out he is going to be a dad.
I loved how multi layered both these characters were and that throughout this book we got to see all of them. I will say this book was highly sexual because sex was easy for these two and emotions were not, but somehow through it all they shared their lives, opened their hearts, and fell in love despite all their reservations and the events in their past that had made them wary.
Scoring the Player’s Baby was completely satisfying from start to finish with characters that were easy to fall in love with making it a perfect romance.
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