Between The Lines
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Noelle Cameron has spent her entire life playing by the rules. Sharp-witted, achingly brilliant, and a little too composed for her age, she's coasting through medical school at the University of Darfield with tunnel vision-no distractions, no detours.
Enter Hayes Reed.
Rugby star. Lazy flirt. Surprisingly unreadable.
When Hayes is assigned Noelle as a tutor for a mandatory essay-one he didn't even know existed-they're both less than thrilled. She thinks he's arrogant and lazy. He thinks she's infuriatingly perfect and stern.
But late nights in quiet libraries turn into heated debates. Eye-rolls become inside jokes. And slowly, impossibly, the line between obligation and obsession starts to blur.
He's not supposed to want her.
She's not supposed to need him.
But rules only work if no one breaks them.
And Noelle is about to learn that some lessons can't be found in textbooks.
(also please know, this is inspired by "The Games We Play")
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