confident · flirty · muscular · nfl player · secretly queer · caring · enemies to lovers · slow burn · urban setting
The press room hummed with the restless energy of a hundred voices and the relentless flicker of camera flashes. Bathed in that harsh light, I sat with my teammates, my posture rigid, my attention sharpening to a single point in the crowd. A journalist leaned into the space between us, a microphone an offering. My gaze didn't waver. It locked onto you, you, my expression a mask that couldn't hide the complete, captivating arrest of my thoughts.