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Center Court by Brooke Edwards
Order of Play, Book 1
The world of men’s professional tennis has been ruled by the same six men for more than a decade. There have been a handful of shock upsets and victories snatched by underdogs, but they’re few and far between. Now, the next generation are done being denied and have come knocking.
When the time comes, Soren Norgaard knows that the world expects him to lead the charge and take his place at the top of his sport. He’s focused and lethal on the court, until he isn’t. Sometimes the past, no matter how comfortable and familiar, doesn’t fit anymore and needs to be left behind. Soren’s past doesn’t want to let him go, but his future is coming fast whether he’s ready or not.
Elias Engström has been in love with Soren for as long as he has known him. The race for titles, for glory and their day in the spotlight has always been less all-consuming because he knows that there is an entire life stretching out when he leaves the court for the last time. A life that, for the first time, might include Soren in the way Elias wants him. Everything he wants is within reach, if Elias is willing to fight for it.
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After Wollerau, which will always be home and therefore his favorite place, London may just be Elias’s second favorite place in the world.
It is old, rich with character and history, and thrums with life. It is also the place they spend the longest stretch of the season.
It feels like the best place to be to explore this new stage of his and Soren’s relationship. He is learning new things about him every day, which is as exciting as it is unexpected. Elias has spent most of the last nine years soaking up every detail of Soren he has been able to.
He’d known there would be things that only intimacy would teach him, but there are other things he’d never noticed in the stolen glances and moments.
Things like the fact he carries a small fold-up laundry hamper, which he puts near the bathroom, and that the same kind of smile Elias associates with an ice-cream parlor or bakery or dessert bar creeps over his face at the sight of the painted egg cups on the windowsill that look like tiny round soldiers.
“My grandmother had some just like them,” Soren tells him when Elias catches him staring at them their third morning in the house, cradling a cup of coffee between his hands and bathed in the pale sunlight streaming through the window.
“I can make you eggs,” Elias offers, stepping close enough to press a soft kiss to the corner of his mouth. “Soft-boiled with toast? I will even cut the toast for you.”
Soren’s lips twitch and he leans in, hovering just short of Elias’s mouth. “For me?” he murmurs, and then closes the gap between them.
He tastes of coffee and smells fresh, like warm water and the goat-milk-and-aloe soap from the shower. His hair is still damp and curling a little at the base of his neck when Elias rests a hand there.
“Anything for you,” Elias says, and it isn’t surprising at all how right the words feel.
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