Crossing the Line by Nicola Marsh

Author:Nicola Marsh [Marsh, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: coming of age, sports, tennis, college romance, new adult, tennis romance
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

KYE

Fourteen days into executing my grand plan of pushing Mia away, I wondered what the hell I was doing.

During the first week, I'd lost every single one of my practice matches in a major trial and been the laughing stock of my fellow trainees. In the second week, I'd lost my temper on court when a younger opponent had whipped the pants off me. And when I wasn't serving double faults or missing lobs, I was touchy, grouchy and thoroughly pissed off.

Not to mention the worst case of blue balls I'd ever had.

Wasn't like I'd had a ton of sex, despite what dickheads at school used to say because of where I lived and my access to strippers. But looked like having sex with Mia made me crave more, with her, in a big way and it was seriously putting me off my game.

To make matters worse, I'd deliberately snubbed her. Several times. Once when she'd waited for me after an in-house tournament, another when she'd ambushed me outside my villa.

I wasn't proud of the way I'd treated her both times—cold, aloof, almost cruelly cutting—but it was the only way to keep my sanity and keep my deal with myself, and Dad, unofficially.

Dirk's warning a fortnight ago only cemented what I already knew. Any involvement with Mia would spell the end of my stint here, and the end of my burgeoning tennis career.

The stupid thing? I wouldn't mind so much if it were only me involved, but the prospect of facing Dad's disappointment again? No way in hell I'd let that happen.

"Your game today sucked."

I glanced up from my squatting position where I was packing my bag, to see Mia standing over me, hands on hips, looking like an avenging angel in a mid-thigh white summer dress that made me want to drag her down to lose the halo.

"Tell me something I don't know," I muttered, zipping the bag and straightening. "I've got a post-match meeting with one of the coaches so I'll see you round—"

"You're avoiding me. I get it." She pinned me with a no-nonsense stare that alerted me to the fact this wouldn't be an easy brush-off like the other times. "Didn't pick you for a coward."

I glanced around, not wanting to have this conversation with witnesses. Everyone else had left, leaving me no excuse to bolt. "We've been through this, Mia. You know why we can't—"

"What? Why we can't be friends?" She wrinkled her nose. "Shit, Kye, I get why we can't be involved. You spelled it out pretty fucking clearly that night on the pier. But I thought …"

My heart fissured a little at the bleakness in her beautiful brown eyes. "What?"

She took a deep breath before blurting out, "I thought we had something beyond sex."

I wanted to say 'we did’. I wanted to say a lot of things. But none of them would make this any easier on either of us.

"You said fuck. Wow, you've been misinterpreting our time together a lot," I

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