Kick Back by K J

Author:K J [J, K]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Cam’s spine gave the most satisfying clunk as she pulled away from her laptop and stretched, squashing her ears against her head with her arms. She dropped her fingers back onto the keyboard, tapping lightly in the manner that irritated J’aann if she was out in the lounge room. Which she wasn’t, because she’d been banished to her bedroom for the afternoon to work on her story while Francine and J’aann set up the flat for her birthday party that night. Cam grinned at the thought, wriggled with anticipation, then adjusted her body on the bed as she sat over her crossed legs, and stared at the text on the screen. The story was coming together, but frustratingly it didn’t want to stay glued. So much of it seemed illogical. If she didn’t know any better, she’d swear that the combination of all the events resembled a conspiracy to destroy the entire women’s league. Again, illogical. And Naomi’s revelation, which a stumbling Sophia had attempted to share with Cam, trying hard not to mention names and therefore protect Naomi, until Cam had glared at her and demanded that she “just spit it out, for God’s sake”, had been breathtaking in its audacity. Testing vitamins on players for taste and efficacy? That had to be—

“Illegal?” she questioned the empty room. “I guess?”

Sophia’s description of ‘dodgy’ was spot on, but Cam wasn’t sure about the legalities of it all since the players were adults and it was just vitamins. Maybe it was simply dodgy. She shrugged, traced the frame of her laptop screen with her finger, and stared at the bedroom door. She’d written stories for each of the five rookies months ago and had moved onto the more senior players, but perhaps it was time to use her questioning skills to have a follow-up chat with one of them.

With a decisive hum, Cam bent her head to the keyboard when heated voices from the lounge snapped it back up. She cocked her head, but couldn’t make out the content of the argument, so she folded her laptop, and wandered out to the lounge. She found J’aann and Francine toe to toe, hands on hips, and frustration scrunched into their faces.

“Uh. What?” Cam sidled up tentatively, and peered at her flatmates. J’aann spun around, her cropped hair clearly spiked by aggravated fingers, and tossed her hand dramatically.

“Apparently, it needs to be in a perfect line on the wall.” She pointed to the jumble of glittery cardboard letters on the coffee table. Cam could make out the ‘H’ and the ‘A’ on top of the heap. She wrinkled her brow.

“Guys, it doesn’t matter. Really. It’s lovely that you’re putting up a banner at all.”

The other participant in the discussion sighed loudly. “But it needs to be just right, Cam.” Francine, her lush body encased in what looked like an artist’s version of a scrub shirt from a hospital, and black leggings that reached to her ankles, tossed her brown ponytail. “From an

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