The Secret Hook-Up (The Copper Valley Thrusters, #6)

by Pippa Grant

I like my life. I like my freedom. I like not feeling responsible for anyone’s happiness beyond my own.

Baseball is my one true love. The thing I can depend on while knowing the sport itself will never take anything from me.

So me not doing relationships isn’t only because I don’t think a man exists who can supplement my life instead of sucking it away.

“He’s the guy who earned the privilege of being in her life by being a partner and not a leech.

I’ve never seen my sister happier.”

want a shot with Addie. A real shot with the possibility of forever. And I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get it.

this time, I’m not telling my friends I’m seeing someone

“She was my secret hookup four years ago,” I say.

“I can see where that makes trusting people hard.”

it makes trusting people not worth it.”

“I did gummies with my brothers a few years ago at the holidays.” “And?”

now I know what it’s like, and I don’t need to do it again.”

“My sister-in-law put Frozen on the TV, and I cried my eyes out from the first note t...

don’t want anything from you, Addie.

don’t want your job. I don’t want your connections.

when I’m with you, I don’t feel like I’m sacrificing my power.

You keep showing me what real love is supposed to be, every day, and I want that.