Forget me, Aisha Harris: A Sports Romance (Statham University Book 2) by Amy Oliveira

Author:Amy Oliveira [Oliveira, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2022-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Nick drove me from New Mexico to Texas and we finally arrived in Louisiana without mentioning what I said during that stormy night. He didn’t hold back any other way, surprising the heck out of me. Like he promised, in the days after our talk, Nick was officially my best friend.

We ate together, we joked and always stayed in the same motel room, watching movies or just sharing a pizza. He let me play DJ while he was driving, and even sang when I asked him enough times.

He didn’t talk about Leroy, however. Not good or bad, or even to acknowledge whose funeral we were going to. It was like nothing happened. Even after asking me about his half-sisters, he dropped the subject like a hot potato.

And I was a coward. We were doing so well. I didn’t want to rock the boat. I enjoyed his company, his arms around me every night like we were suspended in time. We were together, but we were not.

As much as he promised me things weren’t going to change when we returned home, I wasn’t really trusting it. I couldn’t see a way for us to maintain this amount of proximity when we were back to our real lives. Not unless he really acknowledged the elephant in the room.

I needed something real.

“You want him to have a breakthrough because you hope his breakthrough goes your way.” Thea argued in my ear as Nick was away paying for gas and grabbing me a Diet Coke.

I crossed my arms over my chest, glancing back to see if Nick was still in the convenience store as I leaned over the car.

“He’s in a weird frozen state. I cry one second, I laugh the next, I feel on the verge of a panic attack. And he’s just… there. Holding me, telling me he’s got me.”

“Oh no,” Thea mocked. “How can you survive this kind, gorgeous man who listens to you?”

I rolled my eyes. “Leroy was his dad,” I said, looking over my shoulder again. “I didn’t want him to come on this trip because I was sure he wasn’t ready for this. But he’s…” I watched Nick grabbing a couple of crispy M&Ms and peanut butter cups by the cashier. “He’s just so fine.”

“People have different ways to grieve.” Thea reminded me. “Some people feel it straight away, some take their time.”

“Don’t they need to know they are grieving, though?”

“No.” Thea scoffed. “He’s going to feel it when he feels it. And it might be a year from now when something triggers him.”

“A year?” I straighten up, my eyes going round.

“You’ll see,” my sister said. “You want him to have a meltdown so you can pick up the pieces.”

“I mean, it’s just rude he’s ok when I’m sobbing all over him.”

“Don’t be sobbing all over the man, Aisha.”

“It can’t be helped.”

Thea sighed like I was being impossible. “I think you want him to break because then he can realize this whole thing about never being with you is garbage.

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