Unforced Error

He walked off the court and out of my life. Now he's my doubles partner.

Two years ago, Andre Kessler stopped answering my calls. No fight. No goodbye. He just stopped.

I was nineteen. I decided I wasn't worth a sentence, and I built my whole life on top of that.

Now he's back at Calloway. Same shoulders. Same way of saying my name like it's the end of a thought. Coach put us on court one together and I said fine like it cost me nothing.

It costs me everything.

Because Andre knows something about that summer. And every day he doesn't say it, I get closer to a boy I already survived losing once.

I've got a scholarship holding my whole family up. A mother working doubles. A sister who deserves better than a brother who blew it all up over a boy with a building named after him.

I can love him quietly. I can love him carefully.

I just can't love him where anyone can see.

Unforced Error is a slow-burn, second chance MM college sports romance with dual POV, a closeted captain, a rich boy who gave up everything, a rival who knows too much, and one kiss on center court in front of six hundred people.

No cheating. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed happily ever after.