Edge of Glory
Friendship, Texas #1
By Magan Vernon
Genre: Sports Romance/Romantic Comedy
Release
Date: July 12,
2016
Synopsis
"Welcome to
Conti's. I'm Lia and I'll nguhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I froze. Directly
facing me was Olympic swimmer, Jay Morningstar…and I just made an idiot of
myself.
The rest of the table looked up to see my standing there with my mouth practically gaping. His coach, who I recognized from TV interviews, and even two other swimmers from the Olympic team. They didn't say anything, they didn't even blink.
"Uh…I mean…"
I couldn't even put together my words and Jay Morningstar was just staring at me with that Wheaties box smile and those icy blue eyes.
What was I supposed to say? Sorry I just made a weird noise, it's just that I have a poster of you on my wall where you are wearing nothing more than your gold medals, a smile, and a pair of man panties?
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Excerpt
Snow in Texas
didn’t happen.
The weather report said
that we were supposed to get significant snowfall, but I told Jay that the
weatherman was usually wrong so there was nothing to worry about.
This was one of the
first times that Jay was going to hang out at my house and nothing was going to
ruin that for me.
Or so I thought.
I'd cleaned
everything from top to bottom a million times over and made sure my parents
would both be at the restaurant along with Sonny.
Jay was just coming
over to watch a movie, but I couldn't wear my usual "lounging" gear
of sweatpants. It took me forever to figure out what to change into after
school and put on extra deodorant.
Staring at myself
one last time in the mirror, I thought I could pull off looking half way
decent. I smoothed out my sweater and touched up my lip gloss.
Okay, so maybe I
wasn't a Christy Quinn with a great fashion sense, but hey, a sweater and jeans
weren’t that bad.
The doorbell rang
and I bolted down the stairs only to feel something warm and squishy underneath
my sock-clad feet.
I winced, not
wanting to look at what I stepped in, but as soon as Nonna's goat walked into
the foyer, I knew it was exactly what I thought it was.
"Nonna! What
is Capra doing in the house?"
Nonna shuffled into
the foyer and looked down at my feet then at Capra, swatting him on the butt
and swearing in Italian. Capra snorted and turned around, dropping another big
pile of little pellet poops on the ground before she sauntered toward the
living room.
I put my hand on my
head and looked between the new pile of poop, the one on my foot, and the door
where Jay was standing behind the stained glass door.
I didn't even have
any time to panic. I whipped off my socks and turned, cracking the door open
slightly, trying to put on my biggest smile. "Um, hey, Capra had a little
bit of an accident, so I'm just going to clean it up before you come in.
Okay?"
Jay raised an
eyebrow. "Um. Okay?"
I shut the door
again and then raced my socks to the laundry room, throwing them in the wash
then moved as fast as I could to clean up the new piles.
I let out a deep
breath before I opened the door again to see a smiling Jay. He always found a
way to look better than me, no matter what he was wearing. His hair was still
wet as if he just got out of the shower, or maybe the pool, and he smelled of
soap and cool mint. I tried not to let my eyes wander at the way his thin black
t-shirt clung to him with moisture still on his chest, but there is only so
much a girl can resist.
Or maybe he was
freezing and I was the jerk that didn't let him in because I was cleaning up
goat poop.
Meet the Author
Magan Vernon has
been living off of reader tears since she wrote her first short story in 2004.
She now spends her time killing off fictional characters, pretending to plot
while she really just watches Netflix, and she tries to do this all while her
two young children run amok around her Texas ranch.
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