If You Mean to Keep Me
He could make her laugh. Loving her out loud was harder.
Luke Foster is easy to fall for.
The Fairmont Wolves wide receiver is funny, thoughtful, and annoyingly good at remembering things I never expected him to notice. Somewhere between becoming friends and finding reasons to be alone together, he becomes the person I want to tell everything.
Then he kisses me, and friendship stops being enough.
As a former Ohio State gymnast, I understand demanding schedules, exhausting practices, and the kind of disappointment that follows you home. I have a career of my own. I don't need every minute of his day.
But I need to know where I stand in his life.
When we're alone, Luke makes that feel simple. We choose each other. We make plans. He lets me close enough to believe this could last.
Then someone asks an ordinary question about us, and he turns the answer into a joke.
I laugh because it's easier than letting everyone see that it hurt.
Later, I tell him. He listens. He promises.
And just when I start to trust that he understands, I'm laughing through something that hurts again.
I love the man who makes everything feel lighter. But I'm getting tired of carrying the serious parts of us alone.
Walking away would mean losing someone who makes me happy. Staying could mean teaching him that hurting me is something we can keep laughing off.
If You Mean to Keep Me is the second book in the Fairmont Wolves series-an emotional football romance about friendship becoming love, the vulnerability beneath the humor, and how much it can cost to keep hope alive.
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