Deep End

Deep End

Author: Ali Hazelwood Listening Length: 13h 45m
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A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrat...

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CHAPTER 53

A MSTERDAM IS BEAUTIFUL. THE FOOD IS GOOD. DUTCH PEOPLE are nice, even when we don’t speak a word of their language and are so immersed in talking, we wander off and get lost. At the end of the day, in the clunky rise of the hotel’s elevator, I cannot remember what we discussed. Everything. Nothing. Both. All I know is that Lukas took my hand sometime after lunch, and hours later I’m still holding his index finger. That he got a phone call from his team, asking if he wanted to join them, and told them he was busy. What’s the last time I spent a day like this, turning completely off ? Not worrying about events, classes, whether Pipsqueak is holding a grudge over me being gone?

“I need your help tonight,” he tells me. His fingers play with mine, relaxed, like I’m an extension of his body.

I give him my flirtiest Is that what we call it nowadays? smile.