Football - Soccer - it's nickname is The Beautiful Game. It involves competition, friendships, heartbreak, tears, loyalty, secrets, and laughter. Funny how that also describes my life and my friendship with one of the most well known players of the sport throughout the world.

COMPLETE *Despite his lack of interest in me, my lustful thoughts had only gotten stronger over time. I longed to grab those glasses off his face and bury my hands in his messy hair. I wanted him to look at me instead of through me. I wanted him to look at me with desire in his eyes.* This is a spin-off to It Had To Be You, focusing on Melanie.

Life was complicated enough. Her job required a clearance, several passports, and lying to her boyfriend. When she gets mixed up with the CIA's fifth Most Wanted, she has to go undercover with her partner as his fiancée. It doesn't help that he's overprotective, that they have to sleep in the same bed, or that he manages to get into that little compartment behind her heart. [FIN]