Off-Limits: An Opposites Attract Sports Romance (Rixon High Book 1) by L A Cotton

Author:L A Cotton [Cotton, L A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delesty Books
Published: 2021-03-29T18:30:00+00:00

Kaiden: You look beautiful today.

I blushed at his words, texting him back.

Lily: I missed you.

Kaiden: I missed you too. I wish I could walk up to you right now and kiss you…

I felt him before I saw him. Lifting my gaze down the hall, Kaiden moved slowly toward me, a faint smile tracing his mouth.

“Drool,” Peyton snickered. “You have a little drool, right there.” She tried to wipe my jaw, but I batted her away.

The air crackled as Kaiden passed us. He didn’t glance back or make it obvious in any way. He didn’t need to. Just being in close proximity to him, I felt it. The invisible tether connecting us.

“You know, I have been waiting so long for you to get your first—”

I slapped my hand over her mouth, narrowing my eyes at her. “You promised.”

“What?” Her words tickled my palm. “I wasn’t going to say any—”

“What’s that?” Lindsey strolled up to us.

“Nothing to do with you.” Peyton shot her a saccharine sweet smile.

“You know just because you’re the school slut, doesn’t me—”

“What the hell did you call me?” Peyton stepped into her space.

“Well, if the name fits… I heard Sean already dumped you for Layla. I guess he prefers a bit of class, after all.”

“You fucking bi—”

“Okay.” Ashleigh wrapped her arm around Peyton and yanked her backward. “She isn’t worth it.”

Lindsey smirked, checking her perfectly manicured nails. “So pathetic.” Her eyes flicked to me. “But I guess it’s no real surprise since you both hang around with the school freak.”

She might as well have punched me in the chest. The air sucked from my lungs as I tried to swallow over the lump in my throat.

Lindsey and her friends sauntered off, giggling at their leader’s vicious words.

“You should have let me hit her,” Peyton huffed indignantly.

“And let you get suspended? Uncle Jase would love that.”

“She deserved it.”

“People like Lindsey will get their karma one day,” Ashleigh added. “They always do.”

I glanced down the hall to where Lindsey and her friends were just about to disappear around the corner. I wanted to believe my cousin’s words, but I was proof that karma didn’t always come back around. Sure, Chelsea and her family had fled Rixon after my dad threatened them, but Lindsey was still here. She’d stood by that night, laughing and pointing as much as the other girls. Then we’d all started Rixon High and she’d flourished into this popular, outgoing girl while I shrunk further into the shadows.

It didn’t seem fair.

But as Mom liked to constantly remind me, life didn’t test us to reveal our weaknesses, it tested us to reveal our strengths.

It was a definite work in progress though.

If my therapist was here, she would tell me to focus on the things I could control. My breathing. My actions. The thoughts I allowed space in my mind.

Channeling both their words of advice, I took a deep breath, hitched my bag up my shoulder, and headed for math where I only planned to think about two things:

Algebra… and Kaiden.

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