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I smiled. “I want to be with you, and I want to play—in that order—but I’ve been thinking about Marian’s group. My dad always said I could do anything I put my mind to. How many other kids never get that message?”

He brushed a kiss across my collarbone. “Youcando anything you put your mind to, including helping a bunch of kids realize the same thing. I’ll support you one hundred percent in whatever you choose.”

Saying the words aloud made me realize I’d already decided. “Breaking barriers and playing professionally was never the point of football for me. It’s a way to connect with my dad, and a sport I enjoy. I know I’m good enough, but I don’t need to prove it just because I can. As long as I have you, I’m happy.”

“You’ll always have me.” He brushed his nose against mine. “I love you, Lorelai.”

“I love you too,” I whispered, letting him pull me down next to him on the bed.

Any future with Parker was the future I wanted, but we had another year and a half of school to get through first—and a championship title to defend next season. Together.

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HARD HITTER

Chloe Asher would be the death of me. I was tired, bleary eyed, and awake way too fucking early in the morning to deal with her. The sun hadn’t even come up yet.

I’d only been asleep an hour or two when a crash in the hallway had me running to find the subject of most of my fantasies standing outside my door. If she hadn’t been D’s sister, I’d have gone back to bed, preferably with her next to me.

Instead, Chloe’s wide green eyes darted between me, my roommate, Mac, and the llama picture she’d knocked off the wall. Her dark hair tumbled over her shoulder in soft curls, and in the dim light from the living room, her tiny dress shimmered blue-green like the mermaid she’d been in my dream.

Not that I’d ever admit to dreaming about her.

At some point after I’d left the party last night, she’d ditched her pointy-heeled shoes, and I forced myself not to immediately scoop her up in my arms to protect her bare feet from the broken glass littering the floor.

“Don’t move,” I grumbled when she looked like she’d take a step toward me.

She scowled at the gym bag in the middle of the hallway. “Do you guys have to be pigs all the time?”

Mac, owner of the offending gym bag, shrugged. “I live here, and no one else complains. Besides, you’re the one who made the mess.”

He ran a hand through his tousled hair and glanced back at his door, a sure sign he wasn’t alone in his room. We couldn’t leave Chloe standing in the middle of the glass, but Mac only wore a towel wrapped around his waist.

I could reach her from where I stood, and I wouldn’t end up naked in the process. With an internal groan, I beckoned her to lean toward me. Chloe’s eyes narrowed, but she shifted her weight my direction.

Keeping my hands at her waist, I lifted Chloe out of the danger zone—she weighed next to nothing. I deposited her on glass-free carpet then backed away nearly to the living room, crossing my arms over my chest to keep from reaching for her again.

Riley and Parker, the last of my roommates, shuffled out of their room and stopped short. At least they’d taken the time to put on clothes. I didn’t need another reminder that everyone was getting laid except me.

“What the hell is going on out here?” Parker asked.

I watched Chloe, surprised to see the slight wince. She wasn’t the timid type, and honestly, breaking shit in someone else’s apartment in the middle of the night was entirely on brand for her.

When she didn’t answer, I gave him the only information I had, hoping she’d fill in the rest. “Chloe tripped over Mac’s gym bag and knocked the llama off the wall.”

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