Delayed Penalty (Crossing the Line Book 1)

Delayed Penalty (Crossing the Line Book 1)

***USA Today Best Selling Novel*** <br /> <br />I am Evan Masen, a hockey player for the NHL. I spend my nights roughing up two hundred pound defensemen and spend more time in the penalty box than I do on the ice. <br />That’s my job. <br />One night changes everything I thought I once knew about my life on the ice. <br />A girl. <br />A brutally beaten girl left to die in an alley. <br />I don’t know why or how but something made me stay that night after taking her to the hospital. I didn’t know her, nor did I have an obligation to stay but something inside of me rooted me there telling me I should. <br />And I wouldn’t have been me if I just simply left her there. <br />Any man who could put his heart and soul into a game of hockey couldn’t just walk away when someone needed them. She had no one else. <br />The same guy who saw determination where there was desire, now saw hope where there was once despair. <br />I couldn’t just leave as that wasn’t a man that put all he had into something some called just a game. I couldn’t walk away from someone holding onto life, weak and powerless to something she had no control over. <br />So I stayed. In a room full of family members praying for their loved ones to come through, I prayed for a girl I didn’t know, never met before, to have a beating heart. While others sorrows turned to grieving pain, I sat waiting on the words of the unknown.