“Priority, wow.” The girl’s voice drops, a little more desperate. “This is the last thing I would have expected.”
“Why is that? If you ask me, I’d think it’s safe to say the concerns you had when transferring to my department no longer exist.”
A chortled laugh follows, and it’s not a happy one. “I can’t tutor Tobias Cruz.”
I perk up when my name is dropped, a smile stretching across my face as I lean against the wall to eavesdrop some more.
Let’s hear it, girl.
“You can and you will.” Coach lays down the law. “As for your time-frame issues, you’ll need to figure out how to manage this and your other obligations or I’ll have student services pull the contract and seek outside tutors who can.”
There’s a moment’s pause, and then she speaks again, “I don’t ask anything of you, but I’m asking you to assign him to another person. Please.”
She keeps going but I tune her out, laughing at how predictable the situation is, and finish her sentence in my head …
I can’t tutor him, he’s too good-looking.
I focus in again in time to hear her say, “This is unbelievable.”
I laugh again …
The thought of him drives me wild, it’ll be embarrassing to have to sit beside him and— A gasp yanks me from my thoughts, and I turn to find a chick with a messy ball of hair on her head staring at me, her neck stretched so she can peek out of Coach’s office, body still tucked inside.
“Did I say that out loud?”
Grinning, I kick off the wall and step forward, but she doesn’t straighten where she stands and serve me her sassiest of smiles. She doesn’t slide farther into the hall and wait for me to come closer or make her way to me.
She doesn’t do any of those things.
The girl dashes her ass back into the office, leaving me alone in the tunnel.
And I mean, that’s kind of fuckin’ rude.
With a frown, I head over to tell her so, but before I can reach the entrance, the girl’s flying out the door, her chin tucked to her chest.
I put on my best grin and wait for her head to shoot up as she grows closer, for her to peek up at me, flutter her lashes, and apologize for trying to pawn me off, then beg me to let her make it up to me by going down, but she doesn’t do any of those things either.
She walks on by, like nothing.
Doesn’t try and rub up on me.
Doesn’t linger, hoping I’ll grace her with more, be it a quick conversation or impromptu invitation.
The girl doesn’t even look my way and then she’s gone.
My entire body twists with her speedy exit, now facing the direction she disappeared.
Confused, I subconsciously grip the bill of my hat, lift it an inch, all to pull it right back in place.
The fuck just happened here?
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Acknowledgments
This one is easy. I have a few people to thank for helping me get through this, and trust me, it was not easy! This book nearly killed me. As I always try to do, I poured everything I had into this story, but something about this baby weighed differently. It was heavy, and deep, and not a single line from it could be forced or rushed, so HUGE thank you to the man of my house for picking up my slack the last few months while I was engrossed in this story for many, many sleepless nights. And for loving Gordon Ramsay as much as I do! LOL
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Rebecca, you have no idea what you did for me in this book! Your honesty and feedback had such a huge impact! So much so that I can say without a doubt Noah and Ari’s story wouldn’t have become what it did without you here for the process. I will forever be grateful for your hard work and support. You went beyond and I can’t thank you enough for that.
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Melissa! As always, you talked me off the ledge and pushed me to keep going! Your encouragement and friendship means the world to me and I’m so happy to have you as my main bish. Sorry I tortured you with a couple chapters at a time! LOL