Block Shot (Hoops, #2)

by Kennedy Ryan

“I don’t give a damn about odds,” she says. “Odds don’t tell me what I can’t do. Odds just tell me how hard I’ll have to work to get what I want. Don’t allow anyone to make you feel less.”

“What I’m saying is be unafraid to want it all and be disciplined enough to work hard to get it.”

“But the daughter of a lion is still a lion, and this is your domain.”

This woman is my match.

She is day and I am night. When day and night are absolutely equal, it’s equinox. Banner is my equinox. My equal. The revelation rattles around inside me, but my face, my surface remains smooth.

“But if you don’t choose me, you will hurt him because this . . . We are going to happen.”

“Your laugh,” he says. “I want to make you laugh like that every day.”

“I saw you first,” he whispers, kissing the bridge of my nose where my freckles are. “I had you first.” He kisses my face where the dimple dents my cheek when I smile. “I want you back,” he declares, meeting my eyes and taking my mouth in a deep kiss, never looking away.

I won’t give up until you’re completely mine, Banner, and I won’t wait much longer.”

“I don’t want you for good, Banner,” he says. “I want you forever.”