Intercepted by Love: Part Six: A Football Romance (The Quarterback's Heart Book 6) (13 page)

“Yes, I’m with him.” Ella gladly latched onto her protector. “We’re both computer geeks.”

“That you, Sloup?” one of the frat guys said.

“Nope, I don’t know you guys.” Jaden pulled Ella to his side. “I set up the IDE already and the mySQL database access, sweetie. Let’s rock it.”

“Song Boy, I love it when you talk tech.”

Her giggles were accompanied by howls of derision from the Neanderthals.

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achelle Ayala is
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Rachelle is the founder of an online writing group, Romance in a Month, an active member of the California Writer's Club, Fremont Chapter, and a volunteer for the World Literary Cafe. She has won awards in multicultural and historical romance. A Father for Christmas is the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Gold Award Winner.

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ntercepted
by Love
was designed from the start to be a serial novel delivered in parts. I had a lot of fun preparing the cliffhanger and structuring the story this way. Of course, my beta readers and fellow writers in my Romance In A Month writer’s group helped me with early feedback and comments to hone this story for the hopefully surprising cliffhangers.

Many thanks to: Lillian Maddocks Cummings, Terri Merkel, Racquel Reck, Amber McCallister, Shecki Bernard, Jeanie Jackson, Elisabete C.F. Martins, Jessica Cassidy, Keli Morgan, Rebecca Austin, Reggaewoman, Tope Awefoso, Corissa Palfrey, Sharon Coady, Debbie Rosa, Linda Scarchuk, Sherelle Ellis, Patricia Shepard, Brenda Pratt, Sifa Edwards, Dana Anderson, and Rachel Marie Williams for their awesome feedback as well as guidance while I was writing Cade and Andie’s stories. Their comments and remarks helped me know whether I was hitting the right note or not.

My love of history was instilled in me by my high school AP history teacher, Rayilyn Brown. Thanks so much for making history come to life. Of course, I took it to the next level and imagined the personal lives of historical figures, but I’ll never forget that you taught us to always look behind the scenes at primary evidence and to question everything.

Thanks also Coach Ferragamo and my high school football team who instilled in me a great love and respect for athletes. We were the Banning Pilots, All City Champions, and I’m proud to have been one of the team managers and friends with the wonderful guys on our team.

I will especially miss my friends, Joe Montijo (#10), Leroy Irvin (#23), and Ronnie Settles (#37), who have passed on way too early. This story is dedicated to them, although all characters and events inside are purely fictional. Thanks guys for being the heroes we looked up to, and being humble and down to earth. Go Pilots!