One Bet by Cooper Summer

Author:Cooper, Summer [Cooper, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult
Amazon: B09YYG5TJC
Goodreads: 61011552
Published: 2022-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

16

Keaton

I’d forgotten how much I loved being on the practice field at Glouster. Here, I was a god. Celebrated. Revered. Talented. What I wasn’t, was a has-been, not injured or damaged and it felt really good.

It also kept my mind off Avery. Well, mostly, until I looked up at the storm clouds and thought of her eyes. It took me a few minutes to refocus and that was how my afternoon worked. Instead of watching practice, planning how I would help, a hundred things made me think of Avery. And smile. And hope. Until finally I left the stadium. I wanted to find her, just see her. Instead, I walked out of the player entrance to the stadium and stopped.

I didn’t think this moment would come. But there he was. Ryder Kennedy, older, fatter, and a lot angrier.

“The great Keaton Shaw.” He pushed off the wall and straightened. “Mr. Big Time.”

I stared at him, it had been years and still, he looked the same. Same blonde hair, same green eyes. He’d put on some weight, but that came when the working out stopped and the muscle we’d worked so hard to build turned to fat before we could prevent it. But he wasn’t supposed to be here. I hadn’t been invited back to the fraternity house or the college for this hundred-year celebration of the Alphas. And his appearance made red flags billow through my mind.

“Ryder.”

I walked past and he fell into step beside me.

“What? You can’t stop and chat with an old friend?” He scoffed. “Figures.”

He’d been a friend once, my best friend. But he hadn’t just hurt Avery. And after everything he’d done, I couldn’t just forgive and forget. He grabbed my shoulder and yanked so that I twisted toward him. Fucker. I gave him a shove. Softer than I would have if we didn’t have history. Softer than he deserved, but he fell into the wall anyway.

He chuckled and held up both hands as if surrendering. “Oh, come on, Keats. I just wanted to say hey to an old friend. No harm. No foul. Right?”

I didn’t answer because, with Ryder, the one I’d known then anyway, there was always a layer of harm and foul to everything he touched. “How’s your girl? Heard she’s a teacher now.”

My internal asshole-radar beeped, his tone, the implied threat, meant something. He had a plan. It was why he’d made an appearance here, in a place where he wasn’t welcome. Only he’d showed his hand now. Part of it at least, and I only had to figure out what cards he still had up his sleeve.

Friends close. Enemies closer.

“She’s great.” And she was gonna kill me. “Why don’t you come out for drinks with us one of these nights? We can catch up.”

He had that same evil gleam in his eyes a decade later.

“Yeah. I think I’d like that.” My stomach churned when he repeated the sentiment, this time smug enough I almost reconsidered, almost. “I think I would definitely like that.

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