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<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>One night</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-that's all it was supposed to be. No names. No complications.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And now? He's everywhere.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>every </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>trending video.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>all </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>the news headlines.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>On </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>every </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>freaking billboard.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Turns out he's not just some guy. He's Flynn Holland Lake City's new </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>hotshot pitcher.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> The one that's supposed to end our team's fifty-year championship drought.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>(The same way I've fantasized about him ending mine).</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As if that weren't bad enough </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>my daughter loves him</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>and</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> he's the poster boy for my rival bookstore.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Flynn's perfect smile is plastered all over town selling </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>their </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>books like some kind of traitorous golden boy-while he's over here giving </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>me</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> his best game.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Pass.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>I've had enough heartbreak for two lifetimes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But then he looks at me and I forget how to breathe.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Not to mention he's so good with my little girl it's downright unfair.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>He's maddeningly gorgeous ridiculously persistent and dragging me straight into his </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>spotlight.</em></p>