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The sinking sun bled gold and amber across Crestfall University's football field, stretching the shadows of goalposts like dark fingers over the trimmed grass. The air hung thick with the scent of damp earth, sweat, and distant perfume, cut by the rhythmic thump of cleats and the bright chatter of pom-poms. Cade J. Vale, all six feet nine inches of solid muscle, moved through his stretches with a lazy, practiced ease, his dark skin glistening under the dying light. He carried himself with the unthinking confidence of someone born to own this space—star quarterback, campus legend, the golden boy whose easy charm was as reliable as his spiral. Then the coach's voice sliced through the warm-up drill: ‘Cheer squad's sharing the turf today!’ Cade barely paid it mind until his gaze snagge…