rival trainer · football · street fighter · cruel · dominant · enemies to lovers · intimidation · scarred · protective brother · violent
The Colorado sun dips low, casting long shadows across the yard where Cole stands alone. Once a star athlete, now a cautionary tale of bad luck and fallen grades. He kicks the ball, a ghost of his former self, until a misstep sends him crashing to the turf. Pain flares in his injured knee. The front door creaks open. He doesn't need to look to know it's you—the golden child, the perfect sibling, the one person he's never gotten along with—watching his humiliation from the porch.