Hating Him Wanting Him : A Contemporary Romance Collection by Summer Brooks

Author:Summer Brooks [Brooks , Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2021-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

6

Bryant

Coach Frost was keeping me waiting outside his office while he was on the phone, and I couldn’t help but wonder if he was doing this because he was somehow trying to punish me.

Or test me.

Punishment. Funny how that was something stuck in my head after Mia accused me of somehow trying to hurt Sam because of her. That girl could be seriously wrong about things, but she’d found a way to get inside my head.

Was I cold and distant to Sam because of some desire to just let go of the past?

If that was the case, I shouldn’t be so curious about this upcoming date, even if I was sure I was being played by the two girls.

One thing was for certain. I could trust that Mia was a stubborn, loyal friend who would stick by her gal pal no matter what the trouble was. She might hate my guts, or tell herself that she should be hating my guts, but at least there’s no doubt that she’d support Sam through all this.

I extracted her promise to take care of her best friend while she dealt with the breakup, and I was sure she would honor that.

Now that it had been a few days since the party and I could finally get over the drama, I was glad that things hadn’t been as bad as I had expected. The story of our breakup had spread to practically everyone at the party, but at least it hadn’t gotten to Fiona and her YouTube gossip channel.

The last thing Coach Frost would want was me seeming like I cared more about breaking girls’ hearts than working on my plays and my touchdowns.

“Howard! Get in here!”

That was the coach.

He had a military bearing, the kind of disciplined energy that told you you could not fuck around and expect to continue to keep his respect. You had to shape up, or else risk everything you had been working for. It didn’t matter how talented you were, he clearly cared more about someone who could be trusted to stick to his plan rather than try and show off how good he was.

Part of that had been why he had resisted for so long to name me as a starter, even when Mike Liotta started acting up. Of course, now things had changed permanently…

But then again, Coach was also someone who could be trusted to stick by his man, holding out until there really was no hope. If he believed in Mike, today’s meeting might be bad news. Maybe he wanted to tell me that Mike and the university had made a deal and that he was on, like, academic probation for a short while but was expected to return to the field in no time.

Everyone on the team thought he was the most likely guy to ace the NFL draft. I resented him for that, because I thought I was the sure guy. But it was clear things were a little too early for me.

Ah, I couldn’t let myself drown in all these thoughts.

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