Once again, the sheer number of TBRs has overwhelmed me. So why not start something completely random. Here's Nicole Dykes's "Guarded." It's the second book in her Kensley Panthers series.
["Jameson Bates
I have a secret. We all have secrets. I’m nothing special.
It just so happens, however, that my sworn enemy also knows my secret.
He’s the absolute worst person to know this, and there’s nothing I can do about it.
What he does with this information is totally out of my hands and completely in his.
This is why I’ve never let anyone in. I don’t trust easily. I keep to myself.
I’m closed off. Angry.
Guarded.
Garrison Dixon
I shouldn’t have seen what I did.
I shouldn’t know what I do.
But how Bates can think I would ever say anything is beyond me.
Everyone thinks I’m just a big, dumb football player with nothing more to him.
The truth is I’ll never say a word about what I witnessed. I don’t care about it the way he thinks I do. I wouldn’t hurt him.
And I’d let him know that—all of it—if he wasn’t so damn . . .
Guarded."]
Enemies to lovers to friends. Classic. What’s even more classic: having those feeling of pining and jealousy and love but not knowing how to identify them until it’s far too late and you’re in too deep.
In too deep and not able to find any fucks to give about it. Love doesn’t solve everything, but it can give you a support system, it can teach you to be brave, it can care for you through hard times, it can cheer you on during rough ones. Love isn’t a solution, but it can be a stepping stone.
Trigger Warnings: homophobia, small town and smaller thoughts, sports based homophobic 'jokes', and more.
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