The Center's Weakness
A Friends-to-Lovers Slow Burn, Marriage of Convenience Sports RomanceBy Harper Nash
Length8h 52m
About this audiobook
A single orange pill bottle sits in the third locker from the left, behind a rolled-up towel. Declan Cross palms it and slides it into his warm-up jacket in one motion. It is muscle memory from six seasons of doing exactly this.
Then Coach Hart calls him into an office that smells of coffee and stale cigar smoke and says the two things Declan has been going out of his way not to hear. *"You been favoring your left side in practice."* And: *"Doc says your EKG came back with an irregularity."*
Declan is thirty-two. He snaps the ball for the Jaguars. His father was forty-seven, so he knows exactly what an irregularity can mean, and he has decided not to know it. The appointment card went in the bin, past the coffee grounds.
On the field after the win, a reporter with a press credential and a tiny silver football charm at her throat comes through the confetti with her hand out.
Nora Brennan is writing a series on how the league's concussion protocols get enforced, and how they do not. She watched him take a hit in the second quarter. She watched him skip the protocol at halftime. *"And how's your vision right now, Declan?"*
She has a reason that is not going in the article. Her brother died three weeks ago on a practice field. He was thirty-one. An undiagnosed cardiac condition, cleared by the same team doctors who keep clearing Declan. The charm at her throat was his.
What she finds in a locker room bin is an orange bottle with a half-peeled label, a name smudged down to three letters, and the word Metoprolol.
What Declan finds, through a cracked door two rooms from his own locker, is a memo addressed to the general manager from a team physician, documenting a recommendation that Declan Cross be placed on medical leave effective immediately.
The majority owner is shopping the team, and a medical scandal cuts the sale price. Which means almost everybody in that building has a reason to want him on the field on Sunday. Declan included.
A sports romance between a veteran offensive lineman and the reporter who could end his career with one phone call, and who has the best reason in the world to want him out of the game alive. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Snap That Changed Everything
3Chapter 2 - The Story Waiting in the Trenches
4Chapter 3 - The Weight of a Helmet
5Chapter 4 - The Brother I Couldn’t Save
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6Chapter 5 - A Tent Called Common Ground
7Chapter 6 - The Truth in a Coffee Cup
8Chapter 7 - The File in the Shadows
9Chapter 8 - The Second File
10Chapter 9 - The Ultimatum
11Chapter 10 - The Cardiologist’s Lie
12Chapter 11 - The Pressures of a Dynasty
13Chapter 12 - The Cost of a Secret
14Chapter 13 - The Apartment That Held Two Furies
15Chapter 14 - The Middle Ground
16Chapter 15 - The Forgotten Brother
17Chapter 16 - The Plan That Might Work
18Chapter 17 - The Gala Heist
19Chapter 18 - The Fallout Begins
20Chapter 19 - The Confession That Shook Ashland
21Chapter 20 - The Hospital Vigil
22Chapter 21 - The Leak That Couldn’t Be Stopped
23Chapter 22 - The Black Moment
24Chapter 23 - The Loss of a Mother
25Chapter 24 - The Fall of a Quarterback
26Chapter 25 - The Grand Gesture
27Chapter 26 - The Aftermath
28Chapter 27 - The New Beginning
29Chapter 28 - The Snap That Set Me Free
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Harper Nash
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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