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 63

I T’S AROUND THE THIRD DIVE THAT I REALIZE THAT I’M HAVING the best competition of my career—and it has surprisingly little to do with the scores.

I’m light in the air. My limbs find their path to good form. Above all, I’m able to clear my mind. I’m ten feet above the world, and no one else exists. It’s me and the water. Sam’s voice in my head reminds me: Your brain is not a muscle, but sometimes you can use it as one. Train it for competition as well as you train any other part of your body .

Pen, too, is in much better shape than yesterday, and breezes through her dives. Her first voluntary has a higher degree of difficulty than I’ve ever managed in competition, and I gasp when she performs it with minimal errors. Her second is an inward—a work of art, and it makes me so delighted, I hug her. I’m giddy about how well it’s going for us, and that’s why I don’t fully grasp the implications of it until the end of the fourth round.