After fifteen years in the league, I’m pretty worn out and broken down.
The team I spent those fifteen years with must have agreed because they sent me packing with a Thanks for your service and a kick in the ass on the way out the door. The trouble is I just don’t have it in me to walk away. Deep down, I feel I still have enough in the tank to finish my career on a high note.
Unfortunately for me, as a free agent for the first time in my career, I signed with a team I thought needed me to lead them. Come to find out, they need a veteran mentor after giving up a king’s ransom to move up in the draft Ryder Simmons—a kid with all the God-given talent in the world but the common sense of a f*cking walnut.
Brash, bold, and egotistical as f*ck, this kid is a piece of work. If I’m being honest though, it’s hard not to see a bit of myself in him when I was his age.
As training camp opens, all signs point to the kid starting the season as QB1 and me spending my last season or so sitting on the bench behind him. All signs point to me ending my career as the kid’s f*cking wet nurse—a humiliating fall from grace. It’s hardly the way a two-time champion should go out, has me at the lowest point of my career and giving serious thought to hanging them up and walking away.
But then, I meet Cami and things start to change.
Cami breathes new life into me and makes me feel younger than I had in a very long time. She makes me reconsider retirement and lights a competitive fire under my ass that, in all truthfulness, has been dormant for years.
Cami has me riding high on the belief I could have that storybook ending I wanted when I signed in the first place. This girl’s gonna be mine. She’s gonna belong to me … her Daddy.
The problem is that Ryder notices her too, and I quickly learn just how much of an asshole he is. He’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. And what he wants is Cami.
Yeah, no.
Guess he’s gonna learn his lesson the hard way.
Genre: Thriller
The team I spent those fifteen years with must have agreed because they sent me packing with a Thanks for your service and a kick in the ass on the way out the door. The trouble is I just don’t have it in me to walk away. Deep down, I feel I still have enough in the tank to finish my career on a high note.
Unfortunately for me, as a free agent for the first time in my career, I signed with a team I thought needed me to lead them. Come to find out, they need a veteran mentor after giving up a king’s ransom to move up in the draft Ryder Simmons—a kid with all the God-given talent in the world but the common sense of a f*cking walnut.
Brash, bold, and egotistical as f*ck, this kid is a piece of work. If I’m being honest though, it’s hard not to see a bit of myself in him when I was his age.
As training camp opens, all signs point to the kid starting the season as QB1 and me spending my last season or so sitting on the bench behind him. All signs point to me ending my career as the kid’s f*cking wet nurse—a humiliating fall from grace. It’s hardly the way a two-time champion should go out, has me at the lowest point of my career and giving serious thought to hanging them up and walking away.
But then, I meet Cami and things start to change.
Cami breathes new life into me and makes me feel younger than I had in a very long time. She makes me reconsider retirement and lights a competitive fire under my ass that, in all truthfulness, has been dormant for years.
Cami has me riding high on the belief I could have that storybook ending I wanted when I signed in the first place. This girl’s gonna be mine. She’s gonna belong to me … her Daddy.
The problem is that Ryder notices her too, and I quickly learn just how much of an asshole he is. He’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. And what he wants is Cami.
Yeah, no.
Guess he’s gonna learn his lesson the hard way.
Genre: Thriller
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