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Today’s Page Brief features characters from Beyond the Unexpected, Protective Maneuvers Book #1. Enjoy!
From time to time there’s multi-part Page Brief’s that go together. I think of it as a Page Brief Serial and I name them. The below Page Brief Serial Simply with You features the books at the time I wrote these Page Brief’s that were available in my Protective Maneuvers series. Eventually when books are released in the Protective Maneuvers series an Page Brief might be written and if it is it will be added to the Simply with You Page Brief Serial. So this Page Brief Serial is a continuous one (at my discretion/time permits).
Simply with You is a multi-part Page Brief Serial and best read in order for the most enjoyment. They are usually in order of the Protective Maneuvers series for which they are written about (unless otherwise noted).
This might be a rough draft so excuse any typos and so on.
Fair Play Reward
A Protective Maneuvers Page Brief
By: McKenna Jeffries
August 2026
Featured Characters Book: Beyond the Unexpected
Genre: Contemporary/Romantic Suspense
Series: Protective Maneuvers
Page Brief Series: Protective Maneuvers Reports
Page Brief Serial: Simply with You, Part 1
Length: Page Brief
Rayne held very still as she planned out her strategy. He was going down. She didn’t care that he did a similar thing for a living. On this field it was fair play. And they had a reward that was at stake. She was going to win that reward. No way was she going to let him beat her. The damn infuriating man would rub it in.
Slowly she walked forward and lifted her weapon. A slight sound made her look up. She met smokey gray eyes surrounded by dark-blond curly lashes. He studied her. Rayne studied him in return. His shaggy, shoulder-length hair with various shades of brown, ranging from light blond to auburn, reminded her of a tabby cat. A light sheen of sweat coated his sun-kissed, craggy face. His broad forehead was furrowed. His nose, which looked as if it had been broken, flared, and full lips were pulled into a straight line. His entire countenance gave off the feel of coiled strength and a sense of danger.
He pulled the trigger. She ducked and rolled barely escaping the paint.
“Damn it.” She scuttled behind the tire for cover. “Nice try, chief deputy.” She snickered. “You might be second-in-command of the Trescott Cove Police Force but that means nothing here. You are going down.” She held her paintball gun and ran ducking behind cover.
“You’re going to lose, my lady.” Marcus called out cheerfully.
“You’re just saying that to make me get mushy.” Rayne growled. “There is no mushy in paintball. “
“Damn right.” The echoes of agreements of the various people involved in the game sounded from the places people hid. Rayne laughed. They were split into teams and nobody wanted to lose. They were all highly competitive people. Some who like herself wasn’t in some sort of law enforcement or security or knew anything about weapons were at a disadvantage. But that was fine all it would take was getting that shot. She was determined even if she lost the game to get Marcus. To outlast Marcus. She knew if she didn’t he brag and enjoy it way too much.
She inhaled and readied herself. Rayne smiled she had this.
“Hey my lady.” Marcus stated from above her. “You know it’s a bad idea to stay in one place and think too much.”
He shot her as she shot him.
“Damn it.” Rayne scowled. “We shot each other the same time.”
“A tie.” Marcus hissed. “No bragging rights and no reward we had planned.”
“No noooo.” Rayne cried then pouted. “I was so looking forward to it.”
“Knowing these folks were playing with will do it again. So we’ll hold a reward for another time.” Marcus came down off the wall and put his arm around her shoulder. “While we wait for the rest them so we can go out and eat we can find someplace private. Where we can enjoy another kind of reward.”
“Oohhh…Mister Carmichael I love the sound of that.” She snuggled into him.
“No fraternization with the enemy.” The echoes of various people involved in the game sounded from the places people hid.
They laughed and gave them the finger as they walked off the field. Rayne knowing her friends and family they were going to be a while. Although she hadn’t won she was going to enjoy the rewards of their fair play.
Copyright © McKenna Jeffries, 2026.
All Rights Reserved.
This Page Brief Serial is part of the Simply with You a multi-part Page Brief Serial and best read in order for the most enjoyment. They are usually in order of the Protective Maneuvers series for which they are written about (unless otherwise noted).
This Page Brief is part of Protective Maneuvers Reports – to read more of this Page Brief Series go here. For more on info about Page Brief. Enjoy!
Want to read the book on this couple get Beyond the Unexpected here:
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