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He looks at me, his eyes shy. “I’m okay. Thanks though.” He clears his throat. “You have a good night then…”

“Ingrid,” I say quickly as my brain works in overdrive to think of something smooth and charming to say to get him to chat with me longer. This hot stranger swooped in and pulled a seriously swoon-worthy move by saving me from a drunk harasser, and I don’t want him to leave just yet…but I can’t think of a single thing to say that wouldn’t sound totally weird.

He blinks at me. “You’re Ingrid?” He says it like he already knows who I am.

“Yeah…”

His brow hits his hairline like he’s shocked.

I let out an embarrassed laugh. “Sorry, have we met, or should I know who you are…”

He opens his mouth to say something, but before he can, Theo walks up to me.

“Hey.” My cousin smiles at me, then looks at the hot stranger standing in front of me.

That smile disappears from Theo’s face. He’s scowling now. “Del. What the hell are you doing here talking to my cousin?”

Chapter 3

Del

Iinstinctively take a step back as I look between my new teammate who can’t fucking stand me and the gorgeous blonde I was just speaking to.

The gorgeous blonde that I just found out is my new teammate’s cousin.

Jesus fucking Christ, what are the odds?

I wanted to unwind after practice, so I stopped at this random bar for a beer. I hardly ever do that, but I figured why not? I was pretty stressed from meeting the team and having our first practice together, and I thought having a beer would be a nice way to unwind. And then I overheard some drunk creep hassling a woman I couldn’t see because he was standing in front of her. So I grabbed him and told him off, and that’s when I saw her…

And holy fuck, she was an absolute smokeshow.

That blonde hair, those blue eyes that are somehow soft and bright at the same time, that lush mouth, how tall she is….

Tall, pretty blondes are my weakness. But that was beside the point.

When the creep finally stumbled off, I was going to sit back down, but she stopped me. She thanked me. And then sheoffered to buy me a drink. That threw me off. Because it felt like she was flirting with me.

It’s been a while since that’s happened, so I wasn’t sure. But then I focused on the way she looked at me, the way she smiled at me, how she touched my arm.

Okay yeah, she was flirting with me. As surprised as I was, I was also into it.

But then she said her name.

Ingrid.

I remembered how Coach Porter said the name of the head of the Bashers’ social media was Ingrid.

There’s no way that could be a coincidence. That’s not a common name. It had to be her.

And then Theo walks in and announces they’re cousins?

I should buy a lottery ticket after this and really test my luck.

I exhale as I look between the two of them. Theo looks like he wants to punch me, and Ingrid looks like she’s never been more confused.

Her perfectly arched eyebrows crash together as she focuses on me. “Wait, you’re Del Richards?”

“Uh, yeah.” I clear my throat.

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