Play Pretend
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Manon frowned immediately. “You’re insane.”
“Am I?” Lara asked.
“Admit it, Bannerman,” she murmured, her gaze dropping briefly to Manon’s mouth before returning to her eyes. “That entire fight, you were thinking about me.”
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In the fiercely competitive world of elite handball, Lara Raj and Manon Bannerman are everything the other is not—and everything the other stands in the way of. As captains of rival teams climbing from regional leagues toward the national championship, they are locked in a battle for victory, pride, and control.
To the outside world, their rivalry is electric. To Lara, it's something else entirely.
They have a history neither of them talks about—and only one truly remembers.As their teams are forced into close quarters—shared practices, shared hotels, shared road trips—the line between enemy and something far more dangerous begins to blur. Every look lasts too long, every collision feels personal, every victory tastes like loss.
Because some rivalries aren't born on the court.
They're written long before the first whistle blows.Series
- Part 1 of Play Pretend
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Manon leaned in, her voice dropping into a taunting whisper. "Are you jealous, Raj?"
Lara's breath stuttered, "No." Her eyes dropped to Manon's lips for a quick, desperate second before snapping back up, flashing with sudden, furious panic.
Manon caught it, though. "Are you sure?"
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Years ago, Lara Raj and Manon Bannerman were unstoppable-a force on the handball court and a promise to each other off it. They built a life together from the ground up, cemented by the beautiful, quiet world they created for their daughter. Now, the whistle has blown, the court is gone, and the life they spent years building has fractured into a suffocating routine of resentment and late-night arguments that never truly end.
Trapped in a loop of guilt and destructive habits, they are roommates bound by a child, enemies bound by a history, and lovers bound by a memory.
As old friends return and the walls they've built begin to crumble, Lara and Manon must face the raw, unvarnished truth of what broke them-and decide if the family they made is enough to glue the pieces back together.
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- Part 2 of Play Pretend