title: Drinking Games
author:  Brian Scott Mednick 
description: "Clearly, abrilliant book."<br />- Cindy Adams, <i>New York Post</i><br /><br />"An engaging, thought-provoking read... You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll relate to Brian Scott Mednick's believable characters and unvarnished dialogue."<br />- Daria DiGiovanni, Parcbench.com
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  Daring
  the
  Player
   
  By Robin Covington
   
  
  Dedication
  To Nicole Bailey at Proof Before You Publish
  You are an editing rock star!
   
  And to Carly Phillips
  Thank you for being a mentor and a friend.
  Love you!
   
  
   
   
  Chapter One
   
  You’d think that eight million dollars would buy some fucking
  peace and quiet.
                Peter “Rep” Grissom, Jr. threw back the covers on his
  king-sized bed and paced into his living room, throwing on a
  couple of lights and heading to the fridge for a bottle of water.
  He flung open the door, wincing when the stainless steel door
  thudded heavily against the wall. He grabbed the nearest bottle
  and cracked open the top, emptying half of the liquid in a
  couple of long swallows.
                Insomnia wasn’t all that uncommon for him during
  football season but having his hard-fought-for sleep interrupted
  by his new neighbor and her loud-as-shit friends was annoying
  at the very least. He chugged back the rest of the water and
  threw the bottle in the recycli