Foul Line: A High School Bully Romance (The Ballers of Rockport High Book 2)

by E. M. Moore

  I’ve already spoken to her on the phone. I don’t know what my dad told her happened, but she was a wreck. “You guys probably shouldn’t be here when she comes. She doesn’t like you guys very much.”

  Ryan nods quietly.

  “You should drive my car back home. I don’t think I’ll be able to.”

  “If you want,” Ryan says.

  “Just be good to her,” I smirk.

  He doesn’t fall into an easy smile himself. He still looks like a cross between sad and pissed.

  “Where’s Lake?” I ask.

  All four of them at once look like they’re going to explode. “He’s none of your concern, Tessa,” Ryan says. “We’ll take care of him.”

  I’ve waited ages to hear those words in some form or another. I would’ve even settled for an agreement to ignore one another, but it’s progressed far past that. Not even the strength of these pain meds can make what he did to me go away.

  “I want him to suffer.”

  Ryan peeks at Hayes’s fist.

  “More,” I say.

  “He will,” Alec promises.

  “He won’t go away quietly,” Ryan says, as if he’s noting an opinion he’s long had.

  “Neither will we,” Hayes says.

  I feel the intensity of all their stares on me. I’m going into senior year more or less how I wanted. The Ballers are with me. I’ve gotten them back. But for the life of me, I can’t find it in me to care. I may have traded my entire career in just for the chance to have one in the first place.

  I see red.

  They all reach for me. Their hands touching whatever they can grasp onto. In the brush of their fingertips, I feel the inclusion I always wanted. My heart hardens around them, keeping this moment inside me forever. I’m no longer worried they’ll turn their backs on me. They won’t.

  “He’ll pay, Tessa.”

  I’m not sure which one utters it because the pain meds have finally taken their toll on me. I blink rapidly, trying to stay awake, trying to stay conscious in every moment I have with them, but it’s a losing battle.

  “Shh, baby. Go to sleep. We’ll be here when you wake up.”

  The End

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  About the Author

  USA Today Bestselling Author E. M. Moore loves everything paranormal--especially witches. She's visited Salem more than a few times and can't get enough of their ghost tours and witch museums. She's written in every major genre, but fantasy is her first love. She currently has books out in Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Witch Cozy Mysteries and Contemporary Romance.

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  A Sky So Dark: Safe Haven Academy Series, Book 1

  Safe Haven Academy Series Blurb

  Macie Davenport’s life is over.

  The girl who has everything is reduced to an empty black hole of nothing they call Safe Haven Academy. It’s where bad souls go for reform, but end up getting worse until they’re shipped out to another “sheltered place” with an equally uninspired name. It doesn’t matter what they dress it up as, Macie knows places like this are for people like her—people everyone wants to forget.

  The screwed up part? Macie’s not bad. Torn with grief and living in a fantasy world? Yes. A psychopath? Not likely.

  Worse yet, she can’t forget. Not even a little. Not even trying with all her might, she’ll never forget the consequences of the night the sky turned dark.

  Then, they force themselves into her life. A shining light in the bleakness around her, three boys irrevocably change her fate. Can she allow the sun to shine through? Or will Macie give up before giving them a chance?