All Chapters of OFF LIMITS CAPTAIN: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Ellie Nathan must have noticed the expression on my face when I finally recognised him, because he smiled and held out a napkin to me.“Your make up is smudged.”I blushed and grab the napkin from his hand, using it to wipe my face while Nathan stared at me.“Rough night?” he asked when I was done cleaning.“I guess you could say that,” I replied“You know you look so much better without make up on,” he said scanning my face with his big brown eyes. His words made me blush even more, what were the odds that the hockey captain would be here right now hitting on me on the night of my birthday right after my boyfriend cheated on me.“I bet you say the same thing to all the girls,” I said suddenly and I was surprised and embarrassed at my question it must be the alcohol.Nathan smiled again and finished the last of his drink, He reached forward and brushed a bit of hair out of my face. "If you're so intrigued by how I treat girls, why don't you come see it for yourself? I live in Dorm B

Ellie We entered the arena, which was already packed full with excited students. Half of the arena was reserved for our College, while the other half was reserved for the other college. Our school colors were burgundy and gold -- the other university was blue and black."Let's find a good seat," Judy said. I followed her up the stairs, then we shimmied between rows of seats toward a couple of empty spots. Once we had our seats, I could hear the conversation between other girls around me; their talking points mostly centered around Nathan."Do you think he'll make us win again?""Of course! Nathan always plays perfectly.""I feel so lucky just to be attending the same college as him!"I cringed a bit at the conversation and scrolled on my phone while I waited for the game to start. Beside me, Judy pulled out a pair of binoculars and started scouring the ice rink. I can see the cheerleaders performing anenergetic opening dance on ice skates before the game, with Lisa in the lead.She

Nathan I hadn’t planned on running into her. If I was being honest with myself, I’d been actively trying not to swing around the dining hall at breakfast to her, cutting through the science building instead of the quad, anything to keep me from doing exactly what I knew I’d do if I saw her, which was cross whatever room we were in and pull her up against me, it felt like the last three days hadn’t happened. And then there she was, standing outside the student union in her university hoodie with her hair braided back, looking so achingly normal that it took everything in me not to close the distance between us right there and press my lips to hers, but she was acting like she didn't know me, I couldn't do that. “Ellie,” I said again, quieter this time, because the first one had come out of me before I could stop it. “Nathan. Hi.” Her voice was tight, pitched a little too high, and she wasn’t quite looking at me her eyes kept sliding to a point somewhere over my shoulder, like s

EllieI almost missed the call entirely.I’d left my phone on silent through my Thursday morning lecture, and it wasn’t until I was walking out of the science building afterward that I pulled it out and saw the notification. One missed call. One voicemail. Grandma Rose.My grandmother rarely called me directly. She wasn’t much for phones, she still kept an actual paper address book by her landline, still mailed birthday cards two weeks early with a crisp twenty dollar bill folded inside. When she did call, it was usually because my mother had put her up to it.I figured this was more of the same. I tapped the voicemail icon and held the phone to my ear as I walked, only half paying attention.Then I actually started listening, and I stopped walking altogether.“Ellie, sweetheart, it’s your grandmother.” Her voice was thin and papery, the way it always was now, but there was something underneath it today I didn’t recognize an urgency, almost a tremor, that made the hair on my arms sta

EllieThe dark-haired girl’s grip tightened around my arm hard enough that I felt my fingers start to go numb, and I twisted against her hold with everything I had, but it did nothing. She barely even seemed to notice I was struggling, holding me in place with an ease that felt fundamentally wrong.“Get off me!” I said again, louder this time, hoping someone outside might hear over the ambient noise of the coffee shop.“No one’s coming to save you,” Lisa said, reading the thought right off my face. “The music’s loud out there. Nobody’s paying attention to anything happening back here.”She reached out and grabbed a fistful of my hair, wrenching my head back hard enough that my eyes stung, forcing me to look at her instead of at the girls holding my arms. Up close, her expression had gone from cold amusement to something harder, an edge of real menace that hadn’t been there even a minute ago.“You have no idea what you almost walked into,” she said, low and vicious. “No idea at all. An