{"id":254650,"date":"2026-07-13T03:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/body-check-offside-hearts-book-1-quinn-ashby-1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:42:56","slug":"body-check-offside-hearts-book-1-quinn-ashby-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/body-check-offside-hearts-book-1-quinn-ashby-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Check Offside Hearts Book 1 – Quinn Ashby (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not waiting. Not hovering. There. Like the boards. The boards don\u2019t move, Rhodes. They just stay where they are, and when you hit them, they hold.\u201d \u201cYou want me to be the boards.\u201d \u201cI want you to be the boards.\u201d \u201cThat is the most romantic metaphor anyone has ever given me and I need you to know that I\u2019m going to think about it every time I get checked now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suki peeled off the sheet mask and grinned at me\u2014that wide, brilliant grin that made them look like a person who found the world endlessly entertaining and was grateful to be part of the entertainment. \u201cYou\u2019re going to be fine, Castellano. You\u2019re annoying and you have no chill and you flirt like a fourteen-year-old, but you\u2019re also\u2014and I mean this\u2014the first person I\u2019ve seen make Mara forget to be afraid.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not nothing. That\u2019s everything.\u201d I drank my beer. Scratched Biscuit. Let the words settle. The first person I\u2019ve seen make Mara forget to be afraid. I thought about the smile after the goal. The kiss she\u2019d initiated. The fitted shirt. The two mugs on the drying rack that she\u2019d told me about the morning after, in a text that had tried to sound casual\u2014I put your mug on the rack next to mine, in case you\u2019re back for coffee sometime\u2014and had been the least casual sentence ever written.<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t afraid right now. She was standing at the edge, deciding whether to jump, and she needed to look down and see not a net but a person. A person who would catch her and hold her and not drop her and not leave. I could be that person. I was that person. I just had to be the boards. Stay put. Hold steady. Let her come to me at whatever speed she needed.<\/p>\n

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Offside Hearts, Book One Copyright \u00a9 2026 Quinn Ashby All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations in book reviews. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.<\/p>\n

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Content Notice: This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for mature readers (18+). Cover design by Ethereal Dreamscapes 1kitap1.com\/en CHAPTER ONE RHODES The first thing I noticed about Boston was that it smelled like someone had boiled the ocean and forgot to turn off the stove.<\/p>\n

Okay, that wasn\u2019t fair. It was mid-January, and the whole city was locked under a skin of gray ice, and I was standing outside Logan Airport in a leather jacket that had absolutely no business being north of the Mason- Dixon line. The cold hit me like a check from behind\u2014sudden, total, the kind that makes your teeth ache before your brain catches up.<\/p>\n

I should have worn a real coat. I owned real coats. But I\u2019d packed in a fog at three a.m. after getting the call from my agent, and somewhere between pulling clothes off hangers and trying not to cry into my suitcase, I\u2019d prioritized looking hot over not dying of exposure. Priorities. I had them. My phone buzzed for the eleventh time in the last hour.<\/p>\n

Ma\u2019s name on the screen, followed by a wall of texts in alternating English and Spanish that I could summarize as: \u201cAre you okay? Call me. Why haven\u2019t you called me? Titi Rosa says Boston has good cannoli. Are you eating? CALL ME.\u201d I sent back a heart emoji and shoved the phone in my pocket.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d call her later, when I could do it without my voice cracking. Right now I needed to hold it together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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