Length8h 30m
About this audiobook
Gavin is a veteran centreman with a knee that files a daily complaint and a roster spot that a twenty-two-year-old is lifting two hundred and seventy-five pounds to take off him. Claire is the one person in the building whose job is to tell him the truth about his own body.
The kid lifts like he has something to prove. Gavin watches from the squat rack with a towel over his shoulder as the barbell comes off the platform like it insulted somebody's mother. Clean reps. Fast. The kind of lift that makes the young forwards cluster and hoot, and makes the veterans look away and study their wrist wraps with sudden, intense interest.
His left knee gives a dull thud of complaint as he shifts his weight. He ignores it.
*Kid's hungry*, Lars says beside him, not looking up from an ankle mobility drill, grey-threaded beard still damp from the ice session, a nick on his chin from his own skate blade that he has not bothered to wipe.
*He's twenty-two. They're all hungry at twenty-two. They haven't learned what happens when you eat too fast.*
Fifteen years in the league together means you do not need full sentences. A grunt can mean *you're right*, or *shut up*, or *I'll buy you a beer later*, depending on pitch and the angle of the chin. This one means *I know, but*.
What follows: a method that brings somebody back from further than anybody expects, a morning coffee he does not want and drinks anyway, a brother who never left, the things he keeps under his gear, the specific lie a well-trained athlete can tell with a straight face, a grave he does not discuss, and the discovery that being known is his actual kryptonite.
*I'd have been a great nurse. I just wouldn't have lied to you.*
*Because I'm not done with you yet.*
What it costs Gavin is the version of himself he has been selling to the room for fifteen years: reliable, uncomplaining, replaceable on schedule. What it costs Claire is the professional distance that has kept her employable, and the arrangement she made with herself after the last athlete she believed.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Scar That Doesn’t Fade
3Chapter 2 - The Method That Brought Finn Down
4Chapter 3 - The Morning Coffee I Don’t Offer
5Chapter 4 - The Brother Who Never Left
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6Chapter 5 - The Things I Keep Under the Tape
7Chapter 6 - The Lie a Well-Trained Eye Sees
8Chapter 7 - The Grave I Never Talk About
9Chapter 8 - The Kryptonite of Being Seen
10Chapter 9 - The Rules We Break Quietly
11Chapter 10 - The One Thing I Can’t Rehab
12Chapter 11 - The League of Guy Code
13Chapter 12 - The Fishbowl We Live In
14Chapter 13 - The Agreement We Didn’t Sign
15Chapter 14 - The Room That Knows Everything
16Chapter 15 - The Forty-Seven Seconds That Broke Us
17Chapter 16 - The Door I Cannot Close
18Chapter 17 - The Bricks I Stacked on Top of Me
19Chapter 18 - The Letter That Should Have Found Me
20Chapter 19 - The Truth That Didn’t Break Me
21Chapter 20 - The Sabotage That Almost Won
22Chapter 21 - The Lie That Almost Became Who I Am
23Chapter 22 - The Surgery I Cannot Postpone
24Chapter 23 - The One Shift That Matters
25Chapter 24 - The Interview That Changed Everything
26Chapter 25 - The Net I’ll Never Miss
27Epilogue
28About the Author
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Marla Quinn
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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