The Comeback Route

"I thought maybe I had hallucinated that you were here," Nico commented. "I drank too much last night."

"It does seem like a dream," I agreed. "Isn't it amazing?"

"That wasn't exactly what I meant..." Tatum and Nico are meant to be.

They're perfect for each other Just ask anyone, except maybe Nico, because he doesn't seem very thrilled that Tatum has shown up uninvited at his new penthouse apartment, in the new city where he lives after being traded away from the Woodsmen football team. The city that's five states away from where they had known each other before...and by the way, she's moving in.

But he's been acting off ever since he got traded-acting in ways that are going to sabotage his pro-football career, and Tatum is going to help him. She'll be his life coach, even if he doesn't think he needs one. Or wants one, or even wants Tatum in his life at all.

No matter what, she knows that they can make it work, through legal problems, family problems, teammate problems, anything. Because in his heart of hearts, Nico loves her.

Now he just needs to realize it too...and with Tatum there to nudge him along the way, they'll find their happily ever after