The Hardest Fall
Ella Maise
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
3.83
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 62 ratings · Published: 16 Apr 2018
At the time, I knew nothing about him and thought none of what I said would matter since I’d never speak to him again. Turns out, I was very wrong. He was the star wide receiver of the football team, one of the few players expected to make it into the NFL, and I ended up seeing him all over campus.
I might have also propositioned him, run away from him, attacked him with a cooking utensil…and…uh, maybe I shouldn’t tell you all of it. It’s pretty normal stuff, things you’d expect…from me. Eventually, the time came when I couldn’t hide anymore—not that he’d have let me even if I tried.
Before now, he never knew I was secretly watching him. Now that we see each other every day, he knows when I have a hard time looking away. It doesn’t help that I’m not the most subtle person in the world either.
He smiles at me and tells me he finds me fascinating because of my quirks. I can’t even tell him that I think my heart beats differently whenever he’s around.
He thinks we’re going to be best friends. I think I have a big thing for him, and the more I get to know him, the more I don’t care that I’m not allowed to be his friend, let alone fall for him.
The thing is, that’s exactly what I’m doing—what we’re doing, I think.
Falling.
Hard.
Tagged as:
- sports 10
- new adult 10
- contemporary 10
- friends to lovers 9
- funny 7
- dual pov 7
- college 5
- shy heroine 4
- alpha male 3
- young adult 3
- athlete hero 3
- possessive hero 3
- male pov 3
- secret relationship 3
- forced proximity 2
- slow burn 2
- first person pov 2
- christian 1
- sweet/gentle hero 1
- m-f romance 1
- sibling's best friend 1
- football 1
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- content warnings
- abuse 4
- third party sexual assault 1