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Conner took a deep breath and blew it out slowly. He knew he was attracted to her. He was drawn to her in a way he had never experienced before, but this was on a whole new level. He was having a hard time remembering why he had sworn off relationships. Surely, he had a good reason, but that reason was now getting harder and harder to remember.

He sat at her small kitchen table and drank his coffee while he waited, pulling up some game videos on his phone.

They made it into the center in relative silence. Both of them seemed to be a little thrown off by that moment in the kitchen this morning. Be that as it may, he had a killer practice. He was on fire. He and Sven seemed to be hitting the net with every shot. Sasha just might be his good luck charm after all.

When Sasha was done working Conner took her to pick up her car and was now headed home. His head was a mess. He was feeling good because of his practice, but things with Sasha were still messing with him. He couldn’t ask her out. Could he?

There was one person he knew in his life who would never bullshit with him. One person who always told him when he needed to get his head out of his ass. It was time to call in the big guns.

He hit the button and said, “Call Kate.”

“Hello,” said the voice of his twin sister over his car's speaker.

“Hey KitKat,” he answered.

“What’s wrong?”

“Why does something have to be wrong?” he asked. He knew she would know; she always did.

“It doesn’t have to be but tell me I’m wrong.”

He gave a big sigh.

“What is it?”

“Have I talked to you at all about our team’s new social media manager?”

“Ahhh,” Kate said with an obnoxious know it all tone. “Yes, you’ve mentioned her a time or two.”

“She drives me crazy. I mean, when she first came, I was kind of rude to her. I thought we were making progress, but then I thought she was trying to do a player auction and I think I kind of showed my ass.”

“You hate that shit,” Kate said.

“I do, but that’s not even what she was trying to do, but when I saw the word player and auction in the same sentence it was like my brain shorted out and I was pissed.”

“Have you been in one of those since college?”

“No. I refuse.”

“And you have every right to… I totally get that, but do you think this is about more than Sasha and an auction?”

“What are you talking about?” He knew where she was going with this, but it wasn’t the same.

“I think you’re still thinking about Maddie and all the stuff that went down in college.”

He rolled his eyes, and even though she couldn’t hear him, she could sense him.

“Conner, I know that whole situation with her was a hot mess, but Sasha’s not her. She is doing a great job; she seems to have captured each player’s personality well.”

“She has. There was one post I wasn’t comfortable with, and she took it down without question, and her reverse auction idea is actually a really smart.”

“So why aren’t you asking her out? You clearly like her.”

“I do.” That was the first time he admitted that out loud. He did like her. He had since the moment he saw her. But he didn’t seriously date people. After everything with Maddie, he thought he was done. And there was something about Sasha that told him if he was going to date her, it would be serious.

“So, ask her out. It’s not that complicated.”

“It is complicated. You know that after things happen in college, I swore off relationships until I was done. I’m not done until I have that cup.”

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