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I hate that I care.

But I do.

For some fucking reason I can’t seem to get over Kaylee, but I have to. I can’t and won’t let my feelings for her interfere with my game. No matter who she dates...or fucks.

I’ve made it to the NFL. I’m now the quarterback for the Philadelphia Hawkes. Staying there is my priority.

No, fuck that. Making it to the Super Bowl is!

CHAPTER TWO

KAYLEE ROSE

SEPTEMBER

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Honk!

I glance in the rearview mirror and curse. I probably am driving weirdly, but I’m nervous, which is silly. I’ve been around NFL players a lot.

Heck, I’ve dated one of them.

For five seconds.

Colby Wade.

Familiar regret laces through me, but I push it away. I’m nervous enough about starting my new job as the new assistant physio for the Philadelphia Hawkes without thinking abouthim.

And I don’t mean Colby.

I mean Levi Montgomery, the newly drafted quarterback and my ex-boyfriend.

Being hated was never on my vision board, not least by him, yet here we are. Every time he looks at me, there’s so much disgust in his eyes it makes me wince.

I deserve it.

I kissed Colby Wade while we were still together, and there’s no excuse for that.

Even if...

No, there’s no excuse.

I was drunk, but I could’ve pushed him away. I’d been a huge fan of Colby’s, and so had my dad, for years. To meet him in real life was a big deal.

I don’t think I was flirting...he said I was.

He dragged me down the hall and told me I was pretty...

I remember thinking in that moment about how Levi had been pulling away and not invited me to his family event. Which, not to sound like an insecure girlfriend, but I guess that’s what I was being.

Something was off...I felt it and still to this day don’t think I’m wrong.

We all knew Levi was going to get drafted, and he has been. Back then, I wondered if he was planning to break up with me when we graduated.

At Jackson’s party, he’d been distracted with the players and mostly ignoring me. When he walked off with Jackson and a few of the players, I wondered if this was the beginning of the end.

“What’s up gorgeous?” Colby said as he danced with me and the girls. “Lover boy ignoring you?”

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