![]() ![]() Plus the tabloids are all over this 30 year old man-child who has too much money, too much fame, too many girls throwing themselves at him and too many people excusing his behavior as long as he keeps winning championships for his team and Britain. She just has to keep him out of the tabloids and have him show up to all the press events for the next several days until the ceremony.Ībby has no hope is hell of wrangling Rory in, especially since the Sunday before he woke up as a male sandwich after having more than a fun Saturday night with 2 birds. You just fall in love with the quintessential upstanding British good girl who has to "mansit" a bad boy footballer (soccer god) who is about to get a KBE, Knighted so you have to call him Sir. ![]() My Wedding Knight is another great short story in The Wedding Season series. What can go wrong when a bad boy footballer gets Knighted? Can anyone say Tabloids!! ![]()
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