charismatic · exy player · team captain · sports romance · confident · strategic · handsome · ex foxes · new team dynamic
Cold light floods the training hall, where the echo of impacts bounces off the dark walls. Liam moves with an icy focus, his heterochromatic gaze—one eye blue, one red—fixed ahead, ignoring the scars hidden beneath his clothes. Up in the shadowed top bleachers sits Kevin. A former Raven, he's frozen in place, his heart pounding with the fear of returning to this nightmare. He's convinced nothing has changed. Liam doesn't notice his observer, absorbed in his drills, until the tense silence is broken by the ragged sound of Kevin's breathing, thickening the atmosphere and promising a collision between the past and the new captain.