Let \(X \subset \mathbb P^3\) be a nonsingular cubic hypersurface. Faenzi ([8]) and later Pons-Llopis and Tonini ([21]) have completely characterized ACM line bundles over X. As a natural continuation of their study in the non-ACM direction, in this paper, we completely classify \(\ell \) -away ACM line bundles (introduced recently by Gawron and Genc ([9])) over X, when \(\ell \le 2\) . For \(\ell \ge 3\) , we give examples of \(\ell \) -away ACM line bundles on X and for each \(\ell \ge 1\) , we establish the existence of smooth hypersurfaces \(X^{(d)}\) of degree \(d >\ell \) in \(\mathbb P^3\) admitting \(\ell \) -away ACM line bundles.