Checkmate, Love (Sports, #2)
aoyue_
sports series
[series two]
"What if strategy met spontaneity?"
Xeniah Faith Amisola, a reserved chess player who sees life as a board of endless calculations, prefers to stay in the shadows, carefully planning every move before she takes a step. Her world is filled with caution, silence, and the constant weight of her insecurities.
But everything shifts when she crosses paths with Jo Benedict Zhax Bacolio, the volleyball team's energetic libero---someone who thrives in the moment, quick to decide, and even quicker to laugh. Where she thinks three steps ahead, he trusts his instincts. Where she hides, he shines. They are worlds apart, like two games that follow different rules.
Yet, somehow, their paths collide. And just like in chess and volleyball, the outcome depends not only on their individual strengths but on how well they can play together.
Can Xeniah learn to step out of her careful strategies and embrace Jo's unshakable spontaneity---or will their differences become the very move that puts them in checkmate?