Hard to Break: A Brother's Teammate Sports Romance (Denver Kodiaks Book 3) by Piper Lawson

Author:Piper Lawson [Lawson, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

HOOPSNEWS UPDATE: KODIAKS GUARD GARRETT SUSPENDED FIVE GAMES FOLLOWING DRUG INCIDENT

12

BROOKE

“That’s bullshit,” Ruby declares as we walk along Huntington Pier.

“It’s true. Vitamin D fixes everything.” Nova takes a sip from her water bottle. “Not that kind of vitamin D,” she adds at my arched brow.

The LA sunshine beats down on us, and I pull my sunglasses off my head and slide them up my nose.

Since I walked out of Miles’s place, it’s been a rough few days.

I moved back in with my parents. To their credit, they didn’t ask what happened with Miles, and I didn’t volunteer it.

I didn’t take all my things because that would hurt more, would make this feel more permanent. Instead, I brought a few bags of clothes and necessities. I can go back for the rest when I have to.

If I have to.

I didn’t realize how hard it would be waking up without him. Making my own coffee sucks, and it’s not only that it tastes different.

This weekend away was scheduled for a chance to visit Coastal Gallery, but I’m hoping it’s also going to take the edge off.

It has to.

“We still have a couple of hours before the meeting. We could go shopping?” Nova suggests.

Two sets of eyes land on me.

“Brooke, you wake up wanting to shop,” Ruby reminds me. “Even when every Kappa failed the accounting final that year, you organized that emergency trip to Bal Harbor for retail therapy.”

“The koi ponds are very rejuvenating,” I say evenly.

“You look like you’re in mourning.” Ruby nudges my shoulder.

I glance down at my blue dress. “This is Balenciaga.”

The wind blows a piece of hair across my face, and I tuck it back behind my ear as my phone vibrates.

Vivaro has totally ghosted me. I took down the collaboration posts I made well in advance of the post I put up this morning of Ruby and me getting off the plane at LAX.

It has a hundred comments, but I’m looking at one in particular.

Miles left three blue hearts on it.

“What?” Ruby asks. “You thought you could walk away and Miles wouldn’t care?”

Nova cocks her head.

“I didn’t walk away,” I say.

“You moved out,” Nova clarifies.

“Yes. The Kodiaks are in the middle of a season, and Miles is on the verge of everything he wants.” I swallow the emotion that rises. “It’s messy. Everyone thinks I’m the problem because it’s happened since me.”

“So?”

“Well… technically, they’re right. Miles needs to focus on himself. At least for now.”

I turn the phone over in my hand, fantasizing about tossing it into the ocean.

Except that he got it for me. And even if I did throw it, I have two more that he bought me—in different colors.

Damn. Even when I try not to think about him, he’s right there.

“For the record, I want what’s best for you but I’m not sure I support this,” Ruby says.

“You’re going to just back off until the end of the season?” Nova adds.

I start to type out a message but delete it because that will give Miles an opening.

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