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His eyes widen. “Is it?”
“I don’t know,” I backtrack. “I thought I heard it somewhere, but I could be wrong. I’m kind of dumb, in case you didn’t notice.”
“Shit, Connor.Is it?”
I shrug.
“Fuck.”
“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said anything.”
He groans, runs a hand down his face. “Dude, we’re both athletes; you know how superstitious we are.”
I kick myself with the foot that was just in my mouth. “I’m sure it’ll be fine.”
“No, it won’t. And now it’s too late. I’ve told her parents and everything…” He groans again, the heels of his palms going to his eyes. “Dammit.”
“Can’t you, like, trade it in?”
“It’s a little late,dipshit.”
I sigh. “You and Ava have such strange love languages.”
“And even if I could, I wouldn’t get much for it, and I don’t have the money to buy another one, and what the hell am I doing, Connor? Jesus, I can’t even buy her a ring and I’m expecting her to marry me. She’s the only one with a job until I find something and—”
“I have a...proposition.”
He shakes his head. “I’m not sleeping with you.”
I chuckle under my breath. “Well, there goes that idea.”
“What’s your proposition?” He sighs, kicking the balcony railing. “I’m kind of desperate here, and if it’s just one night, and we never have to bring it up again, thenmaybe…”
My lips lift at the corners. “Be my agent.”
His head dips in frustration. “You have an agent.”
“No, I don’t.”
His gaze lifts, locks on mine. “As good as that sounds, I couldn’t do that to you. I haven’t even graduated, and I’ve got no real-life experience.”
“But you’ve gotheart,” I tell him. “And youcare. And you’re invested in me.”
He shakes his head, disbelieving. “What’s your angle, man?” His dark eyes flick between mine. “What do you…”
“I’m going to do my four years…”
He nods. “Okay…?”
“And there’s only one team I want.”
His throat bobs with his swallow.
I add, “And I wantyouto get me on that team. I want to go pro, but I don’t care about the money.”
“Connor, that’s—” He blows out a breath. “It doesn’t work like that.”
“But you have two and a half years tomakeit work like that.”
