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The Seattle Knights have the hottest players in the game. On and off the field.
Second Chances. First Love.
Gaige Benson is the NFL's golden boy. He's done it all. Won every award. Except that elusive Super Bowl ring. This year he is hanging up his cleats and he plans on going out a winner.
Even a golden boy has secrets. Will Gaige's past be the one thing that derails his future?
Violet Reed almost lost it all. Her sight, her dreams of becoming a doctor, and the only man she ever loved. A miracle saved the first two. Sixteen years later she is getting her second chance at love.
Secrets kept them apart. Will the truth separate them forever?
MY REVIEW:
Gaige Benson was a kid who was offered a
chance out of a horrible situation at home.
You see his father was an alcoholic and a physical abuser. His mother was too weak mentally and physically
from all the abuse to get away. His
father had her brain washed. She wouldn’t
leave him even when offered help and a much better way of living.
Gaige was not like her. He was willing to take the help from Terrance
Aldridge gave him. Although leery at first
it was Brooklyn after all. Gaige knew enough to at least listen. Terrance had he seen Gaige throw a football
back to one of his players when the football went out of bounds and crossed his
path while walking home. When the ball
he threw not only hit its mark but with the force and precision he knew a
future player when he saw one. On that day he offered him a chance to play on
his pee wee football team. His only
problem is that he needed his parent’s signatures. His knew he could get his mother’s but not
his father’s. So like all the other
times he forged it.
The second hurdle was when he needed the
fee. But Terrance knew that would be a problem
and had already gotten the board to approve a waiver for him to play. At first Gaige’s pride was going to allow him
to miss this great opportunity until Terrance said he should remember that it
was just a loan until the day he was able to pay it forward. To help another child when he could. Terrance on that day became a father figure
to Gaige he mentored him from then on.
Gaige made it to Yale on a full ride scholarship
and then was drafted with the Seattle Knights as first string QB for this NFL
team. He was only 22 years old. No sooner did he sign the contract when his
good for nothing father blows things up.
He drove drunk and was arrested with three times the legal amount of
alcohol in his system. He did what he
said he would never do he went home to be with his mother in Brooklyn, N.Y. and
hopefully talk her into coming home with him and once and for all leaving his
father. But no she wanted him to use his
name and newly attained fame to get his father off of the charges he so
earned. For which Gaige would never ever
do for his father. Gaige believed he
deserved whatever he got.
Especially, when he got there and found
out once again she was one, lying for him to keep him out of jail and two, that
his father hit a girl while driving drunk.
He truly deserved what he got.
Meanwhile, he is at the hospital, which is where he has to visit with
his mother since she visits the man every day he is there.
One of the days before he was released to
the jail Gaige is walking to the visitor’s room and a young woman is cussing up
a storm. Her eyes are bandaged, and she
is falling out of the bed as she is trying to reach for something that fallen
off her bed. He caught her and righted
her. She kept him hostage by not
releasing him for a while she said she was bored and want to talk for just a
bit. They talked for a few days after
that.
He really got to like her and to everyone
else it may sound crazy to him it did too but he was falling in love with her. At least he thought that is what love must
feel like. He would have never known it
but Violet Reed was feeling the exact same way.
She was just so happy to have this guy to talk to but that they had so
much in common was so calming to her.
You see she had to deal with the possibility of maybe losing her eyesight
for good and she was afraid. Gaige gave
her the courage to face each day. The
was Gaige had just found out that Violet was the girl that his father had hit
with his car and it was not something he thought he could face having to tell
her. Now there was this surgery her only
hope and she had no money for it. He
called his agent and made it happen she would have this surgery. (She would never know it was him. She couldn’t.) She too felt like she was falling in
love. She so wants to see him and had
hoped that he would be there for her upcoming surgery but he couldn’t but she
kept the faith for them both. But he had
a job waiting so…
Fast forward 17 years later Terrance is
having a meeting with a young female Dr. from NY who specializes in eye
surgeries. They want her to come and
join them on the board as well as work the foundation Clinics for Gaige Benson
Foundation… To her surprise it is her Gaige the one that helped her when she
almost fell then walked out of her life.
Or did he? Did others have their
hands in the way their lives turned out or did they cheat them? Life was meant to be lived and they had
theirs to live but was it their own or not?
I enjoyed how the characters were so
positive during situations that could have been horrible for most. It may have been predictable but the
reactions of the characters were not. In
some areas in others they were so surprising I was like hmm?
I give this 5 stars. Provided by netgalley.com. Follow us at:
www.1rad-readerreviews.com.
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