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Alma's spent years reading guys like Sonny Reid in three seconds flat. This time, she got it wrong.
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Alma Laurent has built a life she loves on the Gold Coast.
Three years in, she has her career, her friends, her routines, and twice a week, she trades heels for football boots and joins her team, the Sirens, on the field.
She's happy. She has fun. She knows herself, knows what she likes, and most importantly, knows who she lets into her life.
She's selective.
And she has a particular weakness for making very strong assumptions about pretty boys.
Especially pretty boys like Sonny Reid.
NRL star for the Gold Coast Bengals. Ridiculously good-looking. Effortlessly charming. And seemingly never short of female attention.
Exactly the kind of man Alma has no interest in dating
Alma knows better than to believe every rumour she hears. She knows not every athlete is the stereotype people make them out to be.
But she also knows the difference between a stereotype and a lived pattern.
And she's rarely proven wrong.
Then a harmless bet puts her and Sonny in each other's orbit.
What starts as a game quickly becomes a little harder to keep playful.
Because the more Alma gets to know him, the more she starts to wonder if she got Sonny Reid completely wrong.
Because sometimes, the person you never would have chosen is the person you can't walk away from.
And some bets change everything.