DELAYED PENALTY - TEASER

Here’s a little teaser from Delayed Penalty.  

Graham tried googling and eventually fell down a rabbit hole of dating advice on Reddit. He’d found it helpful in the past. Why not try it for this? 

He found one subreddit that seemed kinda promising and spent some time reading it. 

None of the advice really applied to him, but it seemed sensible at least and he began typing up his own question. 

So, like, I’m into this guy and we kissed once but we’ve never done anything else even though we both admitted we want to. We’re buddies and I broke up with my girlfriend recently but I’m looking for a low-key way to let him know I’m ready to date.  

We’re on a work trip right now and we’ve gotta keep this quiet from the team—Graham backspaced and put in co-workers—so I can’t like … ask him out to dinner or whatever. Any help here? 

Graham read through it, then backspaced until he’d deleted the entire message. 

No, it felt weird to post online. 

When he’d signed up for Reddit initially, he’d already had a throwaway email account and had set up a generic, unidentifiable profile, but it still felt too risky. 

And honestly, kinda pathetic. Graham shouldn’t have to resort to anonymously posting on forums to get date ideas. 

He briefly considered messaging his older sister, but again, they were trying to keep this quiet. Well, Graham was. He wasn’t sure where Thad stood on any of this yet. 

The pilot spoke, telling them they were approaching their destination, and Graham backed out of Reddit and shut off his phone. 

After they landed, they got on a bus to their hotel in Manhattan. 

They’d be playing the New Jersey Hornets tomorrow night and the New York Rockets the night after, before heading home for the season opener two days after that. 

Ugh, way to start off the fucking season with a back-to-back and on the fucking road. Gross. 

Whoever made that schedule was an asshole. 

The bus was too crowded for Graham to pull out his phone, so instead, he spent the ride into the city talking to the guys about their plans for the night. 

After they got settled into the hotel, they were doing a team dinner at a nice sushi restaurant, then guys could go off and do whatever they wanted after. 

Maybe he could get Thad to do something with him then … 

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