He broke his knee in the sixty-third minute. He broke everything else in the parking lot.

Ollie

I heard it before I felt it. A wet, deep sound, like a rope snapping under a boat.

Nine months. That's what they gave me. Nine months of six a.m. sessions in a room that smells like cold cement, with a man who won't let me skip a single rep.

Andre Kessler has one rule for me and he never bends it. Hands on the knee. Door propped open. Nothing personal.

So why do I keep counting how many times he smiles?

Andre

 I don't learn their names. That's the whole job. You fix them, you send them back out, you go home.

 Then a flanker goes down in the mud in front of eight thousand people and looks up at me with his whole heart in his face, and two years of rules die in a puddle.

I know how this ends. I've done it before. Fourteen months of leaving parties twenty minutes apart. Fourteen months of being someone's secret.

He asked me to keep it quiet and I said okay in one second flat.

That's the part I lied about.

Cleared for Contact is a full-length MM college rugby romance with dual first-person POV, a guaranteed happily ever after, and no cliffhanger. Book One in the Cascade Valley Rugby series.

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