One Pucking Love
One Pucking Love
Ellie Wade
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Note: The Crane Hockey Series consists of nine books. Each can be read as a standalone, with every story following a different hockey player’s journey to love. Each book focuses on one couple and ends with a beautiful happily ever after—while also giving you the chance to revisit your favorite couples along the way. For the best reading experience, I recommend starting with Book One, One Pucking Love, and continuing through the series in order.
From USA Today best-selling author Ellie Wade comes a brother’s best friend and second-chance hockey romance.
Cade Richards is the starting forward of the NHL team the Cranes. He’s at the top of his game and scoring like a champ. On a quick trip home, he runs into Iris, the woman he’s spent his adult life striving to be good enough for, the one who holds his heart.
Iris Feldmore’s life is in shambles. Everything she’s worked for has crumbled. Her brother returns home with his best friend—her first love, Cade—in tow. The hockey team gave Cade the nickname of Heartbreaker, and it’s fitting because he broke hers. If she’s honest with herself, she’s never gotten over it.
Now Cade’s back and offering to help her in a way only he can. He’s always known what she needed, yet she’s terrified to let him in. She wouldn’t survive his loss again.
This time, though, something feels different. Their chemistry is off the charts, but she’s been fooled before. After all these years, could everything she’s wanted be in reach?
Or will opening her heart end in another devastating heartbreak?
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Prologue
Iris
My life was split into two parts: before and after.
Once upon a time, I was young and believed I could conquer the world. Living my best life, I was not only close with my brother but also his best friend, Cade. The three of us were inseparable. Every moment I spent with Cade, I fell more and more in love with him. I didn’t realize it in the beginning, when the love was pure and innocent. The emotions I felt were hard to put into words. I just knew that I adored being with Cade. I was happy in his presence. I was fun, confident, and smart—all the things a girl wanted to be. I felt alive. I saw myself reflected back in his eyes, and I saw perfection—the most perfect version of myself. He made me that way. Our connection drove me to grow, pushing myself beyond what I thought I was capable of. It made me fierce, and I craved the power it gave me. I felt loved in a way that I knew only Cade could provide. Even then, I knew what we had was special. He was a treasure, and he was mine. It was never discussed, always just understood that we belonged to one another. I felt that connection deep in my bones, in my soul, and in my heart. My future was Cade Richards.
Or at least, I thought it was. That was before.
One night. One kiss. One rejection. That was all it took to shatter everything. He pulled his lips from mine, and with a look I couldn’t quite understand, he shook his head and told me no. It couldn’t happen. We couldn’t be. Then he walked out of my life. Everything I thought I was, all I thought I knew was gone. He took it with him. He left me alone, a fragment of who I was, questioning where I should go next. Who was I without him? What was my future if not with him? I struggled to understand who I was meant to be. I had to rebuild my self-worth on a pile of broken pieces. Second-guessing everything, I no longer trusted myself. For I was naive enough to be fooled into believing he loved me. Innocence shattered, I vowed to be strong without him. I would excel at everything and succeed in all aspects of my life. Maybe I wasn’t all the things I thought I was before, but I’d be them now, at least the ones that mattered. One thing was for sure, I’d never allow Cade to hurt me again.
That was me after a broken heart.
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