Between The Lines (AU Book 3)

Chloe Harrington has spent the last year watching her friends fall in love. She has absolutely no intention of being next.

With their final year at Ashbourne University approaching, Chloe is determined to make the most of the time she has left. One last year with her best friends. One last season cheering on the Wolves. One last chance to enjoy the life they've built before graduation changes everything.

There's just one problem.

Noah Murray.

Ashbourne Wolves centre. Number twenty-one. Hazel eyes, an infuriating ability to read her better than anyone else, and somehow the person Chloe has grown closest to without ever noticing it happen.

They're friends. Good friends. The kind who tease each other relentlessly, know exactly how to push each other's buttons and have spent the last year becoming part of the same inseparable group.

And that's all they are.

At least, that's what Chloe keeps telling herself.

Because somewhere between late-night conversations, hockey games and moments that linger a little longer than they should, the line between friendship and something more starts to blur.

Noah knows what he wants long before Chloe is ready to admit she might want it too. But after watching two relationships bloom within their friendship group, Chloe can't shake the fear that maybe what she feels isn't real at all. Maybe Noah is simply familiar. Maybe being constantly surrounded by couples has made her see something that isn't there.

So she does the only thing that makes sense.

She steps back.

Except distance doesn't make the feelings disappear.

It only makes her realise how much she misses him.

And as their final year begins slipping away, Chloe has to decide whether protecting a friendship is worth walking away from the person who might have become far more than that somewhere along the way.

Because sometimes the most important part of the story isn't written clearly.

Sometimes you have to read between the lines.

Ashbourne University Book 3