Long Shot (Hoops, #1)

by Kennedy Ryan

“Even when you think you’re defeated, dig deeper. Go harder. Press, because there is something worth it on the other side.”

Hope is the gap between what if and what is, but you have to fill that gap with a lot of hard work.

“If you were mine, Iris, there would be no doubt what position you’d hold in my life. You’d be center. I’d play you at the five.”

“Yeah,” he says with a wry grin. “It’ll be like it’s not even being taken out.”

“Your dreams and ambitions got swallowed up when you had to follow Caleb,” I say, holding her eyes with mine. “I want you to know there’s someone who will follow you.”

“But staying here,” I cut in, caressing the fullness of her bottom lip with my thumb. “Staying is my best shot at winning you.”

“I should have said that I’d play you at the five.”