Offsides A Forbidden Summer Novels & Stories

I sat down on the grass among the flowers with my heels kicked off beside me, and let myself finally breathe. This was only the second party I had ever been to in my whole life. The first one was prom, the night I told Corbin I liked him. I watched his face do something so cruel that I spent the rest of the evening hiding in a bathroom stall, and I still did not fully understand what fifteen year old me had seen in him, or why I ever believed we could be something more than what we were. I had grown out of that a long time ago, that version of me felt like a stranger now.

She looked pure after soaking under the water. How did my subconscious mind wish that she was pure from the heart too? But no! I explained further laughing at my words, " Care to tell me Clara which German Shepherd doesn't know how to swim in the water?" She blurted parting open her lips disbelievingly, " He..he jumped off..to swim..??" I shrugged lifting myself and walked across her body, " Not really! He was just being playful." " Motherfucker! ", she muttered under her breath with a frustrated sigh.

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“It’s not your fault to have that promise, isn’t it your parents who promised you that? “ Tracey said. “Do you guys even know why it’s called a Forbidden promise?” Albert asked. “It’s forbidden for the parents to promise their child those kinds of promises.” Amana answered but Albert shook his head and chuckled. “It’s called forbidden because you can’t have it if it’s not running through your blood. It’s not the same as the ordinary promises, there are rules in giving your child a promise. You promise them a power but you also have to promise them a weakness but on forbidden promises you can only inherit what your parents have and the weaknesses are not planned. Forbidden promise users are e

I hadn’t seen her since then, and now, just being here, she had the same effect on me that she always had. Perhaps it had been a mistake to have her come over, since I hadn’t been able to control myself since that night. I was grateful that I had discovered her diary a day before she left for college after her eighteenth birthday. I didn’t know what would have happened between us if I hadn’t known that she had seen me on one of those nights Isabella wasn’t acting like a wife. “You’re here,” I said awkwardly. She nodded, standing stiffly, her eyes avoiding mine. Her shyness made her look even more endearing.

The screen was active, displaying a countdown timer that was currently sitting at forty-two seconds. "The moment this timer hits zero, an automated script will release the complete, un-redacted archival files on every single legal anomaly, every offshore transaction, and every private liability your father ever committed directly to the public media networks," Vance barked, his face twisting into a mask of pure malice. "I will burn the Ambrose name to the absolute ground before my ship clears the harbor. Your infrastructure, your family wealth, your perfect legal standing—gone. In less than a minute."

Liam shifted, his hand sliding down to cover Jaxson’s knuckles, his fingers tangling with the raw, scraped skin of the captain's hand. The national finals were twenty-eight days away. The compliance officers would return, the agency would draft new clauses, and Marcus Vance’s camp would undoubtedly find another administrative weapon to throw at their feet. But as Liam looked out at the towering New York skyline, wrapped in the heavy scent of the man beside him, he realized the calculation was completely finished. They weren't fighting for a stipend anymore. They were fighting for the territory they had carved out in the dark.

I adjusted to cover the space he left open, and we finished the sequence without giving Coach a reason to blow his whistle. During the question-and-answer session, he answered a question about team discipline by saying, “Our captain is very passionate about making sure nobody steps out of line.” The audience laughed. I gave him a warning look. He continued. “Sometimes he forgets that hockey is a team sport, though. We’re working on that.” More laughter followed. I wanted to strangle him. But when a prospective recruit asked how we managed to play together despite our differences, Jovian gave a surprisingly thoughtful answer.

I stand in the huddle and everyone looks at me. "Same play?" Callum asks. He already knows. "The film room one." "The one you said was impossible." "I said it was stupid." "You said it was impossible." "Callum." "Jaxon." "Can you run it?" He looks at me for exactly one second. The way he looked at me on the lookout hill. Nothing hidden in it. "Throw it," he says. "I'll be there." I drop back. Pocket collapses fast. Left tackle gets beat. I slide right, eyes up, and there's Callum, three defenders around him like a fence, and the broadcast guys are probably already saying impossible.

One anonymous post stole Evangeline Laurent’s Olympic dream, her reputation, and the boy who swore to love her. Then a brutal crash on the ice shattered her leg, sealing her ruin. Hiding at Northcrest Academy, Eva just wants to stay invisible. But you can't play it safe when you collide with Lucas Hale—the star hockey captain living on the wrong side of the rules. In hockey, an offside penalty happens when you cross the line before the puck does—when you push too far, too fast, into dangerous territory. Falling for Lucas is a foul, a violation, a lethal risk. They are two damaged souls playing way offside, where the rules can no longer protect them. Because Eva’s fall was never an acci