Second Chances: Love in Juniper Ridge (Carver Ranch Book 1) by Heather Tullis & Heather Justesen

Author:Heather Tullis & Heather Justesen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, clean romance, love, second chance, sweet romance
Publisher: Jelly Bean Press, Co
Published: 2016-06-24T05:00:00+00:00

The first thing Marsh did Monday morning when he arrived at school was to stop into the principal’s office to see if the drug test results were in yet.

The moment he walked in the door, Trudy, the office manager, shook her head. “He’s on the phone and won’t be off for a while. I won’t interrupt him. I’m not even sure if he has the test results yet, so you’ll just have to wait until he tells you later.”

Marsh was surprised that she’d known why he was there. “What, have you got ESP now?”

She chuckled, shaking her head. “Mark and Jeff have already been in here asking about the test results. You’ll know today—that’s all I’m sure of.”

“All right.” It was the last thing he wanted to hear. He’d tried calling the principal and the superintendent over the weekend, but both phones had gone straight to voicemail, and neither man had returned his message. Waiting was so frustrating!

Marsh tried to focus on his lesson first period, but the time dragged on. Five minutes before it ended, the assistant principal entered the room. “Harmer wants to see you in the office,” he said to Marsh. “I’ll hang here for a while.”

“Thanks, Wilks.” Marsh stood and made himself walk normal speed to the front office. Trudy sent him to the conference room. Jeff, the wrestling coach, his assistant George, and Rex were all waiting when Marsh arrived.

Principal Harmer waved Marsh toward a chair when he joined them in the conference room. “Take a seat. You’ll notice,” he continued a moment later, talking to all of them, “that Mark isn’t here. The girls’ basketball team all tested clean. Unfortunately, you guys are not so lucky.”

Marsh felt his chest constrict. One of his boys was using? Could there be two? “How bad are we talking about?”

“Bad.” Harmer looked at the wrestling coach. “You have seven boys who tested positive.” He picked up a paper and read off the boys’ names. “You, Marsh, have five.”

Marsh barely heard the names read off. He was shell shocked. Five? Half of his team? What was he going to do? How could he possibly play with so many holes on his roster?

Harmer let the news sink in for a long moment before he continued. “The superintendent is looking into this. Valley also had some positive tests, though not nearly as many as we do. And, oddly, only one of the wrestlers was using weed. The rest of our athletes were using performance enhancers.”

“Steroids?” Marsh felt like an idiot asking for clarification, but he still couldn’t believe it.

“Yes. And it’s likely they all got them from the same place. We haven’t talked to them about their sources, yet, but the school board is pulling the boys out of class as we speak. The consequences have to be universal for all of them. No exceptions. Starting with a week’s suspension from school."

Marsh felt his heart clench and almost wished he hadn’t been so straightforward with the boys about being dropped from the team if they got caught drinking or using drugs.

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