Focused

Know that cute lad who lived next door whom you used to lust over throughout your adolescence? You can understand how I feel if, 10 years later, you encounter him and he turns out to be a total jerk.

Given that I had broken through his bedroom window to make my unfulfilled infatuation become something... requited, our most recent meeting was unpleasant. It was a poor day to begin with, but it grew worse.

when becoming into one of the top football players in the nation, Noah Gryphon ends up on my club, the Washington Wolves, when he transferred. The timing couldn't be worse—my employer has just presented me with a once-in-a-lifetime chance. And the whole promotion rests on Noah's broad, hulking, smug shoulders.

He feels the same way about me and doesn't want anything to do with me. But I can put aside all those things that drive me crazy about him for the sake of my profession. His sight. his lips. His enormous hands. We will eventually be unable to ignore them.

But you are aware of the adage on the boundary between hatred and love? They are entirely correct.