Set Me Up

He's the Olympic gold medalist in my major that I'd never have a chance with, and our paths finally cross when I try to set him up with my shy best friend.

DAZE

After being bullied by the cutest boy in high school, I have a very strict policy in college of avoiding cute guys. Pretty hard when Jake freaking Bing, Olympic volleyball gold medalist, exists in the same timeline as me. Or to be more precise, in my engineering major.
It doesn't help that my best friend has a giant flaming torch for him. But she's too shy to do anything except pining from afar. I'm the only one who can help her, even if it means approaching the unapproachable Jake.

JAKE

People around me got really weird after I won a gold medal at last year's Olympics, especially girls who seem to see me as their ticket to fame or money. I decide to swear off them for what's left of my college career and focus on school and volleyball.
But then Daisy, AKA Daze, Rojas decides to give me the time of the day for the first time in almost four years, and I just so happen to have always had a weakness for her. Too bad she seems to be trying to set me up with her friend...

Who is going to be the ultimate winner of this game?

Set Me Up is a standalone, dual POV, closed door romance novella with mild language, and heat without spice.

Tropes:
• Volleyball college romance.
• Who hurt you?
• Given up on love.
• He's an Olympic athlete.
• She's a nerdy Latina.
• Slow burn.
• He falls first and harder.
• No 3rd act breakup.
• Closed door romance.

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