Darcy

I didn’t do “nice.” Especially not with football players who only saw me as a ticket to the NFL. I had my reasons for being guarded, even if it made me the villain in everyone else’s story. But Elias Bennett refused to follow the script. He was the first person who looked at me and didn’t see a stepping stone. I thought I’d successfully pushed him away. But the more we clashed, the more I hated the idea of him walking away.

Elias

I came to Austen Ohio for a degree, not to be a pawn in someone’s social game. Darcy Williams was exactly the kind of distraction I didn’t need. Beautiful, sharp, and according to a conversation I wasn’t meant to hear, she thought I was the biggest loser on the team. I was ready to write her off for good. But then the masks started to slip. Now, I was caught between the girl I overheard and the one standing in front of me, looking at me like I was her savior.

In the game of love, the hardest hits happen off the field.