Chapter 40

She had understood once he‘d explained about being poor and ignorant. He‘d even told her enough about his family so that she understood that she should never want to meet any of them. And they‘d gone on towards a future where in his fantasies they would make a power couple. He would be a pro-football player, she an attorney, they‘d live in mansions and drive expensive cars and travel all around the world.

It was the life that he‘d planned with Jasmine at his side. But then he‘d been injured and it changed everything. She was beautiful, smart and had a promising career and future. But he was now just a kid with no future and a shitload of debt.

He‘d returned to Cobb Hill broken in body as well as spirit. And just like he had never intertwined his life at Eastern with that of Cobb Hill, he did the same once returning home. He never spoke to Jasmine again.